Best Bars in America

Comedians Jay Larson and Sean Patton explore bars featured in Esquire magazine’s annual rundown of the best in the country. With stops in Milwaukee, Chicago and San Francisco, Jay and Sean drink their way through neighborhood dives and swanky bars alike. More than just a cross-country bar crawl, this is a happy hour any self-respecting man should experience in his lifetime. This year, we’d like to talk about values, about the qualities we appreciate most in the places where we drink. The normal designations — “sports bar,” “dive,” “cocktail lounge,” etc. — they don’t speak to our ideals and our standards. Our hopes. So we collaborated with our friends — most notably Esquire drinks guy David Wondrich — to come up with a new taxonomy of bars. The point is, if you find yourself in a bar that doesn’t fit into any of the five categories investigated, you might want to find a different place to drink. (Source: Esquire Network)