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The point of doing a list of the 10 best college bars is to give the reader a guide of places to check out if he or she ends up in one of these college towns. It is not to identify the places in those towns that pack in the most college students.
All due respect to college students, but we should not be counting on them to guide us. Would we want to live, or even spend an hour, in a college apartment? No. We would like to drop off some Pledge and bleach and wait for them in the car so we can take them to the best college bar in town to get some food. That’s not the place with the cheapest drink specials, permanently sticky counter tops and ketchup on bread being served as pizza slices. Places like that are in every college town.
The list that follows leans mostly toward dives with history, little gems that cater to a wider range of ages and offer more to the palate than cheap beer. These are the places the college kids can bring their parents, grandparents and younger siblings. These are the places they pop in for a drink before standing in line to cram into a meat market with 500 other kids and try to talk over thumping bass that leaves them with headaches. These are the places they hit the next morning to nurse the headaches.
