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NORTHERNMOST BAR

Aurora Ice Bar
Chena Hot Springs Resort , Fairbanks , Alaska
(Chena Hot Springs Resort, Fairbanks, AK) Scooter’s 1420th bar, first visited in 2019. At 99.9 miles south of the Arctic Circle, this is the new northernmost bar I’ve ever been...
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SOUTHERNMOST BAR

Dewar’s Clubhouse
Terminal C , Southwest Florida International Airport , Fort Myers , Florida
(Southwest Florida International Airport, Fort Myers, FL) Scooter’s 1459th bar, first visited in 2021. Had lunch and several drinks here during a long wait for our flight home. Taps were...
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EASTERNMOST BAR

Jean Bonnet Tavern
Bedford , Pennsylvania
(Bedford, PA) Scooter’s 863rd bar, first visited in 2011. This historic tavern was established around 1762, making it among the very oldest bars I have been to. Check out the...
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WESTERNMOST BAR

Gaslight Lounge
Downtown , Anchorage , Alaska
(Downtown, Anchorage, AK) Scooter’s 1424th bar, first visited in 2019. This wasn’t a bar we were planning to visit. But we were revisiting a bar around the corner (Darwin’s Theory)...
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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
- It’ll Do
  15 November 2010
  (Arcola, IL) Scooter’s 826th bar, first visited in 2010. There we’re two bars (that we know of) in Arcola, about a block apart, but we had time for only one....
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- Holladay Distillery
  18 June 2022
  (Weston, MO) Scooter’s 1533rd bar, first visited in 2022. This was a very cool find that I’ve probably driven past dozens of times and never noticed. The tasting room is...
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- Velvet Dog
  06 May 2003
  (Union Hill, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 12th bar, first visited in 2003. This is one of the trendier bars, a genre I typically am not a fan of. But of...
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