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What a locker at the bar actually is.
The back wall
Each locker at West End Elixir is a small wooden cabinet built into the back wall of the bar. Members keep their own bottles inside (bourbon, rye, mezcal, scotch, whatever they want to drink) and pour from them whenever they're in the room. There's no pour fee on a member's own bottle. The bar sits at 107 S Main Street in Historic Downtown Bryan, TX.
If cigars are part of the membership, the same locker fits a personal humidor box. We're a 21-and-up cigar bar with a humidor cabinet at the back, so members can keep their own cigars onsite alongside their bottle. The humidor cabinet itself is open to non-members too, with a hand-picked rotation behind the door.
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Who tends to keep one.
Regulars
Members at the bar are regulars. People who land at West End Elixir more than a couple times a month. Aggie alumni in town for football weekends who want a quiet bar in Bryan, TX that isn't Northgate. Couples using the corner for anniversaries. Out-of-town visitors who want a cocktail and cigar lounge that doesn't fill up with a college crowd.
Membership runs on a handshake with the owner, Dustin Batson, a Marine Corps veteran and the bartender behind several Downtown Bryan bars. No online form, no application portal, no tier ladder. We've kept membership intentionally small for ten years. The room is small on purpose.
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How to ask.
In person
The bar opens every night, evenings to close, at 107 S Main Street in Historic Downtown Bryan. About ten minutes by car from the Texas A&M campus and Kyle Field. Come in, take a stool at the cocktail bar, ask Dustin about the locker.
He'll know if it's a fit within the hour. If it is, the locker goes to you that month, with 24-hour access to the lounge, a place on the back wall for your bottle, and room for your cigars in the humidor cabinet. If not, we'll still pour you a cocktail, hand you a whisky menu, and recommend a cigar.