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    "World Famous" Alabama Owl - Bunch of drunks...just what a good bar needs.

    "World Famous" Alabama Owl

    5.0(4 reviews)
    35.2 mi
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    Great people and the bartenders are very friendly. A great place to watch sporting events. If you…read morego once, you'll come back.

    I'm giving this place 5 stars, but not because it's a fine dining restaurant with craft cocktails…read moreand mixologists and a rack full of fancy wines. I'm giving them 5 stars because they're doing a 5 star job at what it is they're doing. Let me be clear....this is a dive bar/biker bar located in what most people would consider a very bad part of town. They keep the door locked and you have to knock and someone will let you in. I'm not sure why this is, but I suspect its to keep the nefarious types who may linger around in this part of town from barging in and causing trouble. It's a popular place for bikers. Like old guys with motorcycles who drink whisky and shoot pool. They do a bit of kareoke in there, they've got a few pool tables, a jukebox, and a tv or two so you can watch a game if one happens to be on. Drinks are ridiculously cheap...but don't go in thinking you're going to get Johnny Walker blue, or Don Julio. I believe Old Forrester was the top shelf, but hey...you order a Manhattan, and you drink it. It costs half of what it would anywhere else. Definitely a neighborhood place, with a neighborhood crowd. But the handful of times I've been here everyone was as cool as could be. Best beer in the house is Guinness, so don't get all snobby about your beer. This is the kind of place where you go in and fit in to what they're doing. Don't try to make them adapt to you. Its an experience. Go for it. A dive bar/biker bar in a seedy part of Bessemer. Get out there. Live the adventure. Meet some bikers. You'll be glad you did. Again, not 5 stars because they're a top of the line fancy place. I'm giving 5 stars because they're doing great at what it is they do.

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    "World Famous" Alabama Owl - Strong drinks. Ashtrays. Cheap beer specials.

    Strong drinks. Ashtrays. Cheap beer specials.

    "World Famous" Alabama Owl - Note the ashtray. You can be free of the oppression of the militant, fake-coughing anti smoking creeps who impose on smokers everywhere.

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    Note the ashtray. You can be free of the oppression of the militant, fake-coughing anti smoking creeps who impose on smokers everywhere.

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