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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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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…
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#1495: St. John’s Catholic Club
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Strawberry Hill, Kansas City, KS) Scooter’s 1495th bar, first visited in 2021. This bar is located in the basement of the St. John’s Catholic Club, attached to the six-lane bowling... -
#1494: Russian River Brewing Company
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Santa Rosa, CA) Scooter’s 1494th bar, first visited in 2021. This was our planned dinner spot, and despite their web site stating that the kitchen is open until 8:30pm,... -
#1488: Panther’s Place
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1488th bar, first visited in 2021. Not quite a speakeasy,. but pretty close. You have to follow them on Instagram to be apprised of when... -
#1493: Enoteca
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Crescent City, CA) Scooter’s 1493rd bar, first visited in 2021. We thought this was a cocktail bar based on pictures we saw in Google reviews, but beer and wine... -
#1492: Port o’ Pints Brewing Company
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Crescent City, CA) Scooter’s 1492nd bar, first visited in 2021. This small brewery was extremely crowded and noisy, making communication with the bar staff very difficult. But once I got... -
#1491: Seaside Restaurant & Bar
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Crescent City, CA) Scooter’s 1491st bar, first visited in 2021. We were planning to go to Seaquake Brewing, but they had a nearly 2-hour wait which put it past closing... -
#1490: Buddha Lounge
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Chinatown, San Francisco, CA) Scooter’s 1490th bar, first visited in 2021. Though this was right across the street from Li Po, we didn’t want to risk all the food options... -
#1489: Li Po Cocktail Lounge
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Chinatown, San Francisco, CA) Scooter’s 1489th bar, first visited in 2021. We arrived in Chinatown a little after 8pm and were disappointed to find pretty much everything closed and no... -
#1487: Sarah’s On The Hill
Posted on July 2021 | No Comments(Strawberry Hill, Kansas City, KS) Scooter’s 1487th bar, first visited in 2021. We were taking some out of town friends around for drinks when my wife noticed this on the... -
#1486: Wild Bill’s Bar & Grill
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Rulo, NE) Scooter’s 1486th bar, first visited in 2021. This place has been on my want-to-visit list for about a dozen years, mainly because I wanted to hang out in... -
#1485: Boiler Brewing Company – South
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1485th bar, first visited in 2021. Boiler Brewing’s second location, in the same shopping center as the two previous brewery tap rooms. I had the King Size... -
#1484: Zipline Beer Hall
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1484th bar, first visited in 2021. Zipline’s second location in Lincoln, sandwiched between two other brewery tap rooms in the same shopping center. I had the Things... -
#1483: Catalyst – Kitchen, Taproom, Patio, & Brewing Co.
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Lincoln, NE) Formerly Local Kitchen + Patio Scooter’s 1483rd bar, first visited in 2021. This big restaurant/brewery with a big patio is located in a relatively new shop[ping center in... -
#1482: V’s Arcade Bar
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1482nd bar, first visited in 2021. I tried to come here twice earlier on this trip. Both times the door was locked even though I was... -
#1481: D.B. Cooper’s Hijackers Lounge
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1481st bar, first visited in 2021. I know I’ve been saying for the past few bars that I was done and needed to go back to... -
#1480: The Beacon Lounge
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1480th bar, first visited in 2021. Back on July 15, 2009, my friend Brandon and I were on the first day of a 5-day bar crawl.... -
#1479: The Old Pub
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1479th bar, first visited in 2021. This place finished me. I was done. Pretty much out of stomach volume and mostly out of liver capacity as... -
#1478: The Hot Mess
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1478th bar, first visited in 2021. This quirky dive has a large square bar, lots of empty glass bottles of what I believe to be Buddha... -
#1477: Barrymore’s
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1477th bar, first visited in 2021. I almost cut this one off my list because the second half of my planned day was a focus on... -
#1476: Zoo Bar
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1476th bar, first visited in 2021. As a long-time denizen of Zoo Bar in Kansas City, I’ve been long trying to visit the famous blues venue... -
#1475: SARO Cider
Posted on June 2021 | No Comments(Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1475th bar, first visited in 2021. Diagonally opposite Code Beer across a tricky intersection (both for myself as a pedestrian and, earlier, for my Uber driver). A...
