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Everyone has their own idea of what makes a great bar. It could be the inviting atmosphere, the triple-digit selection of beer, the quirky but friendly clientele or maybe a soothing waterfront location. Or something else. Or none of the above. Whatever the case, Jack Maxwell goes on a cross-country pub crawl to get a handle on the question of great bars and what makes them so in his new Travel Channel series "Booze Traveler: Best Bars," premiering Monday, April 24. "That's so subjective," he says, "but you look at top-10 lists, we talk to people, we go online, we talk to people in that city because a lot of things encompass a best bar, of course. But it's just like flavors of ice cream. People will have their favorites." Each of the 12 half-hour episodes (two each Monday night) looks at a single category, be it biker bars, bars with a view, game bars, haunted bars, dockside bars and repurposed bars. There are also two destination episodes in Maui and Aspen, Colo. In the Monday's opener, Maxwell surveys dockside bars in Baltimore, Florida and the San Francisco Bay area, the last a stop in Sausalito to check out the Trident, a bayfront establishment with an interesting history. "That is where the tequila sunrise was invented," Maxwell notes. "The story is the Rolling Stones come in – Keith Richards, Mick Jagger – looking for a drink. They want something with tequila. The bartender slings something together and it becomes the tequila sunrise. And then of course, Otis Redding's hit song 'Dock of the Bay' ... he played right there on the dock because that was the view that inspired him." What book are you currently reading? "Well, I just cracked open 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway. ... It's about his time in Paris in the '20s and it's a nice, really, retrospective considering what happened and how he ended up killing himself in Idaho. And so it's nice to remember the happy times and what inspired him and his friendships with some of the great writers. It was nice. Paris was a happy time then, it was before the war, it was a great place with all these salons and great thinkers and all of that, so I thought it would be a nice tribute to Papa." What did you have for dinner last night? "I had baked cod tongue and mashed potatoes because that's a delicacy in Norway." What is your next project? "We just started Season 4 of 'Booze Traveler' and we wrapped Season 1 of 'Best Bars.' And we'll be busy with 'Booze Traveler' now until the end of the year, like November." When was your last vacation, where and why? "I don't know that I've had one since I started the show ... . I like to go to Phoenix to visit my family and friends. That's where a lot of them live. So if you consider that a vacation, I guess to Phoenix and I go there when we have our short breaks every few episodes or so, every couple of months. But pure vacation, just get away and either sit on a beach or hike the mountains for a couple of weeks? I haven't had one in too long." BY GEORGE DICKIE Jack Maxwell drinks it all in on Travel Channel's 'Booze Traveler: Best Bars' Jack Maxwell hosts Travel Channel's "Booze Traveler: Best Bars" Page 8 April 24 - 30, 2017 polo SUNDAY 2:00 p.m. WSBT 6 U.S. Open Championship. From Wellington, Fla. RugBy SUNDAY 2:30 p.m. NBCSN Pre- miership Rugby Bath Rugby vs Gloucester Rugby. (N) socceR TUESDAY 2:40 p.m. NBCSN English Premier League Soccer Chelsea FC vs South- ampton FC. The home team is winless in each of the last six PL matches between Chelsea and Southampton. (N) WEDNESDAY 2:40 p.m. ESPN2 Deut- sche Pokal Soccer FC Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund. From Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. (N) NBCSN English Pre- mier League Soccer Crystal Palace FC vs Tottenham Hotspur FC. Spurs won 3-1 in the PL at Selhurst Park last sea- son (Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Nacer Chadli goals). 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