Scooter’s 1805th bar, first visited in 2024.

Fernson is both a brewery and coffee shop, and as it opens at 7am it also serves breakfast. I ordered a breakfast sandwich and a Snow Eater (stout). I also bought some merchandise, and also got a hot mocha (my second of the morning) to go.

After breakfast and my beer I took my coffee and walked around downtown to do some final sightseeing and view a few more sculptures. I then returned to my room to gather by bags and wait for my ride to the airport.

332 S Phillips Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1804th bar, first visited in 2024.

After an hour lying on my bed watching a tornado documentary, I got a second wind of another kind and remembered a cocktail bar I’d noticed the previous night while walking back to by room. I decided to head back out and check it out.

This place was hopping, but I was able to find an open seat at the end of the bar. I chose a cocktail called Welcome To The Tarragon that I chose due to its tasty-sounding ingredients (see below).

After that I walked back to my room to go to bed for real.

120 S Phillips Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1803rd bar, first visited in 2024.

The brewery was pretty busy, but post of the people were outside on the patio. There was a concert taking place at a public amphitheater just over a block away and the music was spilling up into here.

I had a Smōktoberfest (their recently-tapped smoked oktoberfest beer) and a Monster Cookie (oatmeal stout).

After finishing here I walked past the outdoor concert and returned to my room. Beat and buzzed, I settled in front of the TV to stay in the rest of the night.

701 N Phillips Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1802nd bar, first visited in 2024.

The bar was prepped and ready for a birthday party, and I felt a bit about of place as I seemed to be the only person who wasn’t there to see the birthday girl (who arrived near the end of my visit).

This bar is very biker friendly, and several of them were sitting out on the deck outside the east end of the building.

One cool item I noticed near where I was sitting is a very realistic 3-D model of the building. It’s in the pictures below. Also, the bar is known for having funny messages on its sign out front.

I had a Budweiser.

200 E Falls Park Dr
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1801st bar, first visited in 2024.

This was another bar participating in the poker run, and unlike the others earlier in the day it was packed with poker run participants. This made it a bit of a challenge for me to get any decent interior pics as there was only a brief moment when a group left that I could take a picture of the bar without my camera pointing directly at someone’s face due to the bar’s U-shaped design. A separate small room off to the side was filled with casino games.

Though I’d heard rumor of a good beer selection here, since the bartender was rather busy I just had a Budweiser rather than have him rifle through the beer cooler to read off the options.

1014 E 8th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57103
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Scooter’s 1800th bar, first visited in 2024.

Look’s Beer Company is located inside a massive single-story white building named Look’s Marketplace, located on a massive estate. It has several shops (mostly various food markets), the restaurant and brewery, a brunch place, and is also an event venue. The entire building is surrounded by outdoor seating.

There was a massive wedding party outside, and just after I put my order in they all decided to come into the brewery all at once. The staff wasn’t prepared for the surge (they’d apparently been given no notice) but they handled it well and forced everybody involved with the wedding to form a single-file line rather than inundating the entire circular bar from all sides as they’d initially been doing. This did annoy a few of the wedding guests but it was the only way to avoid chaos.

I noticed beer-battered walleye on the menu, so though I wasn’t really completely hungry yet I went ahead and had some fish & chips. Unfortunately they do not do flights here, so rather than sample several beers I had a glass of Chicken On A Raft (English porter).

500 E 69th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57108
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Scooter’s 1799th bar, first visited in 2024.

Pizza is served, and looked amazing, but I’d just fille dup on chislic and they didn’t have any single-serve options anyway, so I went without.

I had a Reference Point Porter, the Magic Marker (NEIPA), and a Dorothy’s New World Lager by Toppling Goliath Brewing Co. — the latter of which was an accidental mis-pour from one of the guest taps instead of the Magic Marker so was something I got to try for free.

There was a dog at a nearby table that reminded me a lot of my boy back at home so I had to sneak a picture.

5200 Grant St
Sioux Falls, SD 57110
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Scooter’s 1798th bar, first visited in 2024.

Wiley’s is a very large sports bar with a good beer selection, and has both covered and uncovered outdoor seating in the back. I had Chislic for lunch, adong with a Guiness.

330 N Main Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1797th bar, first visited in 2024.

This was a fun little dive, and like all of them had a bank of casino games. The water fountain in the men’s room struck me as a little odd.

When I was at Remedy Brewing yesterday I missed out on trying the Queen Bee (imperial cream ale with honey) so that’s what I ordered here.

I don’t think I could ever be this thirsty:

918 W 6th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1796th bar, first visited in 2024.

There’s no kitchen, but they do toast up some pizzas from a local supplier as well as allow outside food. (They have menus for the adjoining Ruby Tuesday that you can order from.)

Though the sidewalk does seem large enough for a few tables, there is no outdoor seating.

I had their Make IPA Piney Again (American IPA), Umbral Undulations (black IPA), Imperial CPB (chocolate peanut butter imperial porter), and Imperial Raspberry Truffle (imperial porter).

2425 S Shirley Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57106
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Scooter’s 1795th bar, first visited in 2024.

This was also participating in the poker run but none of the participants had made it here yet.

I had a Lion’s Paw lager from Fernson Brewing. In the past I haven’t been a fan of lagers, but they really started growing on my on this trip.

2206 W 12th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1794th bar, first visited in 2024.

This was a bit of an unusual find, as I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bar at the entrance of a trailer park before. My driver commented on that as well.

There was a poker run taking places today that I’d end up crossing paths with 3 or 4 more times throughout the day. This was the earliest-opening participating bar so several participants were hanging out here waiting for the other spots to open. Everybody was really nice and friendly.

I had a Lagunitas IPA, and just as I was nearly finished somebody bought a round for the bar. Not really wanting a second beer already I asked for one of the shots advertised on a sign on the cooler. That was when I found of this is a beer & wine only establishment. The “shots” mentioned were essentially single-serve bottles of wine. So I ended up getting a second Lagunitas instead.

There was a group carpooling to the next bar on the poker run and I briefly considered asking if I could join them, but the place they decided they were heading to next wasn’t part of my itinerary so I stuck with my Uber plan.

1515 W Burnside St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1793rd bar, first visited in 2024.

My first photo was taken right after I arrived and sat down and shows a fairly quiet bar. 10 minutes later the places was packed. But then, 20 minutes after that when I took the second photo, it was empty again. I’m assuming the largely college-aged crowd likely moved outside to the patio (third photo).

I had a Guinness.

This would be my last stop for the evening, and I then made my LONG walk back to my AirBnB while stopping to look at numerous sculptures and murals along the way.

214 E 12th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1792nd bar, first visited in 2024.

I has a Lagunitas IPA.

508 S 1st Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1791st bar, first visited in 2024.

Right after I ordered by beer a guy sitting two bar stools to my right slowly and not-very-stealthy slid a brochure over to me. I ignored it for a while, but finally glanced at it and it was for some sort of gold investment scheme he was involved in. Later as I was getting ready to leave I overheard the bartender mildly chastise him for promoting his side hustle to her customers.

Look’s Beer Company was on my list for the next day, but because it was so far away from everything else on my list it was also on my list of places to potentially cut for time if needed. So, as an insurance policy in case that happened, I ordered the Daisy Gazer (NEIPA) from Look’s Beer Company.

127 W 10th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1790th bar, first visited in 2024.

I had a Blueberry Bold Fashioned. I really liked it so considered ordering another cocktail, but I remembered how that went for me the previous night in Fargo so thought better of it.

There were stairs leading to a lower level, but it was unclear to me if that was a public area or staff only. I’m suspecting they likely went to their distilling area and/or pizza kitchen.

200 S Main Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1789th bar, first visited in 2024.

I had pre-picked two beers that I was really looking forward to, so naturally they were two of the five with “sold out” signs on the menu board.

I ended up going with the Unnecessary Air Quotes (NEIPA) and the Overlapping Dialogue (Imperial IPA).

While I was enjoying my beer I overheard a conversation at the other end of the bar about how awful the TSA at the local airport (FSD) is. I wondered how the TSA at such a small airport could possibly be that bad and laughed it up. (Two days later I found out the answer: I’m pre-check and basically got two hernia exams anyway.)

101 S Phillips Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Scooter’s 1788th bar, first visited in 2024.

Beer-wise, I had the Oktoberfest and the Remedy IPA.

401 E 8th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57103
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Scooter’s 1787th bar, first visited in 2024.

Trivia was getting going so the place was pretty busy, and I got a little extra entertainment watching the staff try to deal with the POS system somehow getting switched to Chinese and trying to figure out how to get it back to English.

I had a Barrel Aged Cake Actually (German chocolate cake rye barrel aged stout).

434 E 8th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57103
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Scooter’s 1786th bar, first visited in 2024.

I had the Dark Singularity (oatmeal stout), and bought a bottle of Pogonophilia (imperial stout) to take home.

309 5th St
Brookings, SD 57006
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Scooter’s 1785th bar, first visited in 2024.

Apparently this was move-in week for the local university so the town’s population was in the process of rising by
20,000, explaining the mild difficulty I had finding a parking spot.

401 Main Ave
Brookings, SD 57006
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Scooter’s 1784th bar, first visited in 2024.

I picked this as a lunch spot, where I had chicken tenders and fries, washed down with a Guinness.

There’s a vending machine with salty snacks, casino games, darts, foosball, and pool. The venue is broken into at least three distinct sections, with the dual-sided bar forming an island between the two largest rooms.

33 N Maple
Watertown, SD 57201
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Scooter’s 1753rd bar, first visited in 2024.

I had a flight with their Miner Mango Cream Ale, Miner Camping Beer, Miner Big Blue Muffin Cider, Belgian Dark Brown, Let It All Hang Stout, ate East River Hazy IPA.

23845 US-385
Hill City, SD 57745
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Scooter’s 1752nd bar, first visited in 2024.

23837 US-385
Hill City, SD 57745
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Scooter’s 1751st bar, first visited in 2024.

From the brewery side of things, I had the Hot Mama (pepper beer) and the Panty Dropper Porter. On the wine side I tried several varieries including the Erotic White, Cherry Fantasy, Burlesque Blackberry, and Cougar.

23851 US-385
Hill City, SD 57745
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Scooter’s 1750th bar, first visited in 2024.

The bartender was able to make a pretty impressive drink for my wife, and was knowledgeable of its ingredients when my wife asked about it. All the staff were friendly. Most of the people inside were having dinner, we sat at the bar. There was also a lot of outdoor seating but everyone was indoors on this day.

115 Main St
Interior, SD 57750
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Scooter’s 1749th bar, first visited in 2024.

We popped in here for some dive bar drinks before returning to out campsite. Unfortunately we got a video alert that one of our dogs was freaking out back in our RV due to fireworks being shot nearby, so we had to chug our first round and run.

I had a gin and tonic.

112 N Main St
Mitchell, SD 57301
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Scooter’s 1748th bar, first visited in 2024.

There was not any outdoor seating at the time of our visit, but the opening of a new patio was imminent so I went ahead and marked this as having outdoor seating as it is probably open by now.

In addition to my meal I had a SUPERCOW (imperial milk stout) by Look’s Beer.

210 S Main St
Mitchell, SD 57301
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Scooter’s 1380th bar, first visited in 2019.

“Oh my god, this is just about the best pizza I’ve ever had!” she later said after the food came out.

Perfectly-sized gourmet flatbread pizzas and a great beer selection, that’s all I need!

I had a Bluebird Day (IPA) by Great Northern Brewing Company (Montana)

There was a second level (basement level) but we didn’t head downstairs so I don’t know if it was just additional seating or if there was other stuff of interest.

625 St Joseph St
Rapid City, SD 57701
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Scooter’s 1199th bar, first visited in 2017.

In addition to a burger I had an 11th Hour IPA and a Pile O’ Dirt Porter, both by Crow Peak Brewing Company.

509 Main St
Wall, SD 57790
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Scooter’s 950th bar, first visited in 2012.

We were about to turn around and leave when we noticed the name of this joint, and HAD to stop in.

It smelled really good in there, and from the reviews I found later I now regret not eating here.

I got a kick out of the Busted Nut underwear and thongs for sale, among other clothing…

24088 279th Ave
Draper, SD 57531
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Scooter’s 662nd bar, first visited in 2009.

1305 Main St
Sturgis, SD 57785
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Scooter’s 661st bar, first visited in 2009.

205 N Main St
Mitchell, SD 57301
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