Scooter’s 1622nd bar, first visited in 2023.

This brewery is more of a restaurant, but there was a very small bar in the back where I plopped down. As I was looking over the beer menu the bartender mentioned that they had just put a new Hefeweizen on, so I went with that, and it was quite good. I neglected, however, to ask for a smaller pour, so what I received meant that I was in for a longer stay than I expected.

An early draft of my itinerary had me continuing southwest from here to Clutch Brewing and Summit Brewing, but I had cut those long ago because they would have prevented me from reaching where I wanted to end the evening before closing time. My new route instead took me west-northwest, with Burning Brothers Brewing as my next planned stop.

Unfortunately, checking the timing of the impending blizzard, it became clear I was going to have to make some cuts if I was going to make it back to the hotel before heavy snow started. Checking the current online tap lists, I made the difficult decision to cut Burning Brothers from the route.

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Scooter’s 1621st bar, first visited in 2023.

Out front was a nice covered patio with a lit fire pit, but it was too gross outside for anyone to be using it. Inside was a long bar with a selection of video games at the far end.

Rather than smaller 5oz samples, I opted for a full pour of a single beer that looked particularly good to me: OMINOUS (an imperial brown ale).

It’s only appropriate that as I was having a beer named OMINOUS in a brewery called Bad Weather Brewing, that I got a new weather alert update that the winter storm warning was now upgraded to a blizzard warning. I realized I was going to have to keep a close eye on the weather and potentially make some tough decisions later.

While I was drinking my beer the bartender was chatting with a guy to my let about someone she knew who lived (or used to live) in St. Louis. The guy to my left made a comment about St. Louis being a shithole and how glad he is to not have to go there anymore. He then added “Same for Kansas City, that place is a shithole too,” I turned to them in mock offence and said “Hay, wait a second, I’m from Kansas City! To which they both laughed and then he said “Well you aren’t there now, so obviously you knew to find something better.”

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