Bar owner Brian McComas – known in Baltimore for his controversial Federal Hill beer garden and for causing offense with his tweets – confronted the Baltimore County Liquor Board at a contentious hearing Monday on multiple violations alleged at his Ryleigh’s Oyster establishment in Timonium.

Acting as his own counsel, McComas defended the actions of his staff after a County Fire Department investigator, responding to a noise complaint, noticed guests frolicking maskless last month.

The encounter rattled the investigator, prompting her to call 911 – but not because of the restaurant’s lack of adherence to the county’s Covid-19 rule requiring face coverings to be worn inside a restaurant.

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