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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!
--ScooterJA Few Random Favorites
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Hair of the Dog Pub
13 November 2010(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN) Scooter’s 799th bar, first visited in 2010. We’d pulled off in Chattanooga looking for one particular bar whose name intrigued us. We found that it no longer...
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Holler House
07 April 2019(Forest Home Hills, Milwaukee, WI) Scooter’s 1327th bar, first visited in 2019. I have been to a ton of dive bars. Up to the point of this writing, I had...
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Old Rock Tavern
15 November 2014(Rockville, MO) Scooter’s 1062nd bar, first visited in 2014. For being so far away from anywhere, this is an absolutely fantastic gem. This is am amazingly beautiful bar. When I...
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#1026: Mother’s Brewing Company
Posted on July 2014 | No Comments(Downtown, Springfield, MO) Scooter’s 1026th bar, first visited in 2014. Stop #2 in a mid-Missouri brewpub crawl. This is the tasting room at the Mother’s Brewery. There are no flights,... -
#1025: Springfield Brewing Company
Posted on July 2014 | No Comments(Downtown, Springfield, MO) Scooter’s 1025th bar, first visited in 2014. This s the first stop of a mid-Missouri brewpub tour. We had lunch here, the food was pretty great (I...