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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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Mary’s Place
10 April 2015(Emporia, KS) Scooter’s 1082nd bar, first visited in 2015. One of the ratings I sometimes give when visiting bars in new city is, “This is the Zoo Bar of ____.”...
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Dugout Bar
17 July 2009(Downtown, Fremont, NE) Scooter’s 620th bar, first visited in 2009. Before we went inside we walked around the block looking for a pizza place that was supposed to be there,...
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New Delhi Cafe
(Downtown, Eureka Springs, AR) Scooter’s 1877th bar, first visited in 2026. We went to several Eureka Springs bars today, but this was the only of them I hadn’t been to…
Station 7 Tavern
(Lee’s Summit, MO) Scooter’s 1876th bar, first visited in 2026. This bar is part of the Martin City Brewing family and serves their beer and food. We were there close…
Lotawana Brewing Company
(Grain Valley, MO) Scooter’s 1875th bar, first visited in 2026. After I left Edge on 7 I went on a bar crawl. This was technically stop #4, but it was…
Edge On 7
(Blue Springs, MO) Formerly Joe’s Standard Bar Scooter’s 1874th bar, first visited in 2026. There are two halves of this bar. The south half used to be the Class Reunion…
Finn’s Food & Spirits
(Downtown, Hannibal, MO) Scooter’s 1873rd bar, first visited in 2026. I really needed a good coffee and had been unable to find one in downtown Springfield. Hannibal was the city…
Celtic Mist Pub
(Downtown, Springfield, IL) Scooter’s 1872nd bar, first visited in 2026. There were several bars available to choose from on the downtown square, but since we were planning to go to…
Brewhaus
(Downtown, Springfield, IL) Scooter’s 1871st bar, first visited in 2026. We arrived in Springfield too late to visit out hotel’s bar, so after getting settled in we headed out into…
Bloom Bawarchi Indian Restaurant & Bar
(Bloomington, IL) Scooter’s 1870th bar, first visited in 2026. This place was a lucky accident! We had plans to eat at a small Indian restaurant in Springfield, but icy road…
Tri-City Brewing Company
(Bay City, MI) Scooter’s 1869th bar, first visited in 2026. I have had lots of beers from this brewery and even own some of their merchandise, but had never been….
Beeters Brew Pub
(Sebewaing, MI) Scooter’s 1868th bar, first visited in 2026. This wasn’t a planned stop, but it was (sort of) on the way back to the house and the owner is…
Colwood Bar
(Unionville, MI) Scooter’s 1867th bar, first visited in 2026. Another favorite find of ours, especially due to friendly regulars and an awesome bartender. This bar is located WAY out in…
Bay Port Inn
(Bay Port, MI) Scooter’s 1866th bar, first visited in 2026. This was our favorite bar that we found on this trip. Located in a building that used to be a…
Blue Water Inn
(Downtown, Caseville, MI) Scooter’s 1865th bar, first visited in 2025. After our earlier bar crawl we took a break for a couple of hours, then came here for the annual…
Biff’s Bar & Grill
(Kinde, MI) Scooter’s 1864th bar, first visited in 2025. This was the third and final stop of our NYE afternoon bar crawl. They were serving a prime rib dinner and…
BottomsUp
(Bad Axe, MI) Formerly Frank’s Place Scooter’s 1863rd bar, first visited in 2025. Second stop on our NYE afternoon bar crawl. This is a motel bar, and ended up being…
Heck’s Bar
(Kinde, MI) Scooter’s 1862nd bar, first visited in 2025. The first of three stops on a NYE rural Michigan bar crawl. I’d seen this bar on previous Michigan vacations but…
Block 15 Tavern & Exchange
(Downtown, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1861st bar, first visited in 2025. This was a last-second impulse stop after riding the streetcar around to various Christmas destinations. It was exactly halfway…
OSO at Bear Point Harbor
(Bear Point Harbor, Orange Beach, AL) Scooter’s 1860th bar, first visited in 2025. We rented a boat for the afternoon and docked here for drinks and snacks. I had I…
Bushwhacker’s Landing
(Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1859th bar, first visited in 2025. This was a completely accidental find. We had spent the afternoon at Flora-Bama. While we were there we decided to have…
Flight Deck
(Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1858th bar, first visited in 2025. “Oh, this is PERFECT!” I exclaimed as we pulled into the parking lot. What a majestic thing of beauty. The absolute…
Nelson’s Liquor & Lounge
(Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1857th bar, first visited in 2025. This dive bar in the back of a liquor store turned out to be a lot nicer on the inside than…
Gary’s Brewery & Biergarten / Wandering Oaks Winery
(Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1856th bar, first visited in 2025. This was just a couple of blocks over from Rocky’s Bar so it was a no-brainer making this our next stop….
Rocky’s Bar
(Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1855th bar, first visited in 2025. What was supposed to be an afternoon of beachfront bars turned into an afternoon of inland bars as there turned out…
Big Beach Brewing Company
(Gulf Shores, AL) Scooter’s 1854th bar, first visited in 2025. I didn’t have a chance to make it here last year, but this time I was in town for two…
The Dragonfly
(Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, AL) Scooter’s 1853rd bar, first visited in 2025. We were out for a bike ride and decided to pedal our asses over to the park…
Fertile Ground Beer Company
(Belhaven, Jackson, MS) Scooter’s 1852nd bar, first visited in 2025. We were doing a short overnight camp at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park on our way to Gulf Shores, and decided…
Cooper’s Hawk
(Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1851st bar, first visited in 2025. We had been to the Plaza location for a meal a few years ago, then went to this location a…
recordBar
(Downtown, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1850th bar, first visited in 2025. Came here to see the Scottish band High Fade. I had been to the original recordBar location a few…
Force of Nature Brewing
(Downtown, De Soto, KS) Scooter’s 1849th bar, first visited in 2025. The second brewery for my little brother’s belated birthday. Many of their beers are floral, which isn’t exactly my…
Discourse Brewing
(Windmill Square, Overland Park, KS) Scooter’s 1848th bar, first visited in 2025. Brought my youngest brother here for some belated birthday beer. I had the Java Abyss (Kenyan Mito coffee…
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#806: Big River Grille & Brewing Works
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Nashville, TN) Scooter’s 806th bar, first visited in 2010. We had gone walking around some of the side streets looking for a dive, but we didn’t find anything that... -
#805: Paradise Park Trailer Resort
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Nashville, TN) Scooter’s 805th bar, first visited in 2010. After walking most of the length of the Broadway strip, we decided this looked like the most interesting place to... -
#804: Coconut Bay Cafe
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Manchester, TN) Scooter’s 804th bar, first visited in 2010. The bartender at Irma’s Place told us there were no other bars in town. We headed back to I-24, but crossed... -
#803: Irma’s Place
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Black Jack, Manchester, TN) Scooter’s 803rd bar, first visited in 2010. We were having a terrible time finding another bar in this down. We had headed to downtown and found... -
#802: Mickey’s Home Town Bar & Grill
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(West Meade, Manchester, TN) Formerly Snafu Scooter’s 802nd bar, first visited in 2010. When we arrived in Manchester we drove from one end of town to the other and decided... -
#801: Pickle Barrel
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN) Scooter’s 801st bar, first visited in 2010. As we were heading towards downtown I noticed a very cool looking building, so I wanted to check it our... -
#800: Taco Mac
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN) Scooter’s 800th bar, first visited in 2010. We were getting hungry, so for my 800th bar we decided to head over to a small regional chain called... -
#799: Hair of the Dog Pub
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(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... -
#798: Dawg Pound Sports & Grill
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Blackwood, Calhoun, GA) Scooter’s 798th bar, first visited in 2010. We wanted to make one last stop in northern Georgia. Calhoun appears to be a dry town, however Dawg Pound... -
#797: Bullfrogz
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Kennesaw, GA) Scooter’s 797th bar, first visited in 2010. We had intended to look for a bar in Marietta, but we wound up in Kennesaw by mistake. We asked the... -
#796: The Pool Hall
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 796th bar, first visited in 2010. We REALLY needed to get on the road, but when we got back to the van we noticed that The... -
#795: Churchill’s British Pub
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 795th bar, first visited in 2010. We had already tried and failed twice at finding this bar open, but I was really curious about it so... -
#794: Five Paces Inn
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 794th bar, first visited in 2010. Finally… the one bar we had come to Atlanta to see was now open! We had picked this place weeks... -
#793: Red Door Tavern
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 793rd bar, first visited in 2010. A good old fashioned sports dive. The bar consists of 3 rooms, though we spent all our visit in the... -
#792: Kramer’s
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Formerly Six Scooter’s 792nd bar, first visited in 2010. We can made a complete circle around the neighborhood and found nothing else open. Back at the van,... -
#791: Stout Irish Sports Pub
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 791st bar, first visited in 2010. After circling around a few blocks failing to find an open bar, Google Maps on my phone indicated a possible... -
#790: One Star Ranch
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Buckhead, Atlanta, GA) Scooter’s 790th bar, first visited in 2010. After B’s GPS device did us wrong and took us to another neighborhood several miles away, we finally found our... -
#789: Back Porch Lounge
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Riverview, Macon, GA) Scooter’s 789th bar, first visited in 2010. B wasn’t feeling so hot after eating too much at his grandma-in-law’s house earlier, so we took a break at... -
#788: Club Synergy
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Macon, GA) Scooter’s 788th bar, first visited in 2010. Because of the name, we expected more of a trendy night club. Instead we found what seemed to be a... -
#787: The Rookery
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Downtown, Macon, GA) Scooter’s 787th bar, first visited in 2010. After a long day of driving. moving furniture and boxes, and finally a large and delicious home-cooked southern meal at... -
#786: O’Neal’s Bar & Grill
Posted on November 2010 | No Comments(Ashland Hills, Clarksville, TN) Formerly Choppers Roadhouse  Scooter’s 786th bar, first visited in 2010. It took us quite a while to find another place that was still open at...




















