Downtown Archive

#1051: Fat Edd’s Roadhouse

Posted on August 2014 | No Comments
(Downtown, Metropolis, IL) Scooter’s 1051st bar, first visited in 2014. The final stop on our 9-states-in-1-day pub crawl, arrived it with 32-1/2 minutes left to spare! We arrived too late...
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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
- Dragonmead Microbrewery
  18 August 2019
  (Warren, MI) Scooter’s 1363rd bar, first visited in 2019. When I first stepped in here and saw the beer list I had to ask the bartender how to tell which...
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- Boiler Brewing Company
  21 November 2018
  (Downtown, Lincoln, NE) Scooter’s 1301st bar, first visited in 2018. Spectacular brewery in the basement of the Grand Manse building, a former courthouse. Accessed from a stairwell in an alley....
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- Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
  13 August 2016
  (Chippewa Falls, WI) Scooter’s 1155th bar, first visited in 2016. We got up extra early to try to be on one of the first tours of the day as we...
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