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If walls could talk, dive bars would surely have the best stories to tell.

Unlike trendy cocktail bars that specialize in fancy drinks, you go to dive bars for what Derek Brown, veteran mixologist and Washington, D.C.-based hospitality expert, calls "time, grime and dime" — how long it’s been there, how dirty it is and how cheap it is.

"You go because the bartenders are a little salty, but that feels more genuine, there are always the same regulars, and you’re certain you’re going to find an interesting conversation," Brown told Fox News Digital.

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His favorite is Irv's Basement Bar in Pasadena, Maryland. Located inside 102-year-old World War I

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