Couple buy rights to sell beer merchandise

Mr. Boh is back.

What's that? You don't know Boh? You must not be from around here.

Mr. Boh, no first name, is the grinning, winking mascot of National Bohemian beer, or "Natty Boh," a beverage consumed with "crabs," an underwater crustacean, in "Maryland," an area between Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.

The beer itself is made by Texas-based Pabst Brewing Co. The last Maryland brewery producing Natty Boh shut its doors in 1996, but Mr. Boh persists, adorning everything from T-shirts to luxury condos in Baltimore, where he was born just after the repeal of prohibition.

Now a Towson couple has brought him...