Downtown Archive

#1271: The B-Hive

Posted on September 2018 | No Comments
(Downtown, Colby, KS) Scooter’s 1271st bar, first visited in 2018. This dive bar was intended to be a dinner stop (I’d seen great things about their burgers and they were...
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Welcome!
Some people collect autographs, some collect antiques, others collect stamps. My hobby is a little different, I collect bars. This site represents my collection, documenting each bar I visit.

This is not a review site, there's plenty of those already. Most posts in this bar diary are slice-of-life recaps of the half hour or so I spent having a beer. I hope you enjoy browsing through my collection!

--ScooterJ
A Few Random Favorites
- Bullet Hole
  16 July 2009
  (Utica, NE) Scooter’s 586th bar, first visited in 2009. This was a COMPLETE bonus bar, absolutely nothing in our research indicated this would be here and we wouldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t expect a...
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- Fair State Brewing Cooperative
  01 April 2023
  (Northeast Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN) Scooter’s 1628th bar, first visited in 2023. The last time I had a drink on this block, 1,464 bars ago in August 2006, it was directly...
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- Shorty’s Somewhat Fancy Bar
  05 July 2019
  (Downtown, Des Moines, IA) Scooter’s 1343rd bar, first visited in 2019. We tried to go to El Bait Shop next but it was wasn’t happening — far too crowded. So...
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