Mooseknuckle

The worst place full of pretentious people — the bouncer grabbed my ID and then spent several minutes intentionally texting on his phone before handing it back. Then he swore at me as I walked in. The dude wears baseball caps if you want to let him go — your place looks cool, and we would have gone in otherwise, but he isn’t doing you any favors.

The bouncer told us to f*** off when we tried to go in. I think he was having a rough day. Still no excuse for his behavior though…

I wish I could issue zero stars. Don’t go in less you love to get discriminated on and I’m not talking about race. Be a guy that’s way too good looking and they’ll give you a hard time. If your physical appearance is threatening then prepared to not get in to the bar to even begin with. So Here’s how it will work. The GM (General manager) of the bar was at the door checking IDs. If you watch Games of thrones I was Khal drogo since it was Halloween night, and my beautiful Girl friend was Khalessi. After letting the whole line in front on me in when I go to give him my ID he says that he can’t let me in because I look too drunk… But what he really meant to say was hey beautiful man you look way to good to enter my bar and your traps are scaring me.
ALSO THE GM OF THIS BAR, Whose duty is to increase sales was wearing a A&M shirt in a UT town. What an idiot, inbred MotherF****er, but I guess that truly does explain his behavior. So save yourself the trouble and go to a better bar called Burnside right across the street.

Each time I visited Austin I came to this bar and the atmosphere is great. Gets crowded fast but definitely worth it, if you get in early. I tried their neighbors (the jackelope) and the atmosphere was good but their whole staff was incredibly rude and disrespectful. MooseKnuckle for life !!!

Moose knuckle was the bomb! We came for a bachelorette party from Florida and the staff really made us feel at home! Skylar and Andy were some of the best people we met while in Austin! They looked after us and made sure we had the time of our lives! We couldn’t of asked for better! (If yall are ever in Tampa we got you!!)

One of the coolest spots. They opened about 30 min earlier for us, so we could continue our Sunday funday. The bartender and staff were extremely awesome.

A night of barhopping lead us to this establishment, which is actually almost three bars in one! What brought us in was the name, and I was on a quest to collect T-​shirts from all the bars I visited on this trip.
You would think with a name like «Mooseknuckle» that they would have a more clever assortment of T-​shirts. Truthfully, they did not. You do not go to a bar to buy t-​shirts, so lets get down to the brews.
The bartender was very engaging and talkative, and most of all, friendly, and pleasing to the eye (in fact, she is pictured below-​not my picture). We had a few drinks here and watched a game that was on TV. We didn’t stay too long, true to the barhopping that we all do.
I think we really on went in for the name. It was earlier in the night and the place was rather dead. The place was clean and all, maybe it was just too early (It was 8pm or so).

After waiting over 30 minutes to get into the bar, it just turned out to be a hot mess. Completely cramped, nearly impossible to get the attention of the bartenders. The minor drink specials were not worth this experience. All of my time wasted could have been spent having fun elsewhere.

Started a crazy night on Sixth Street here with mi esposa, oldest daughter, and her best friend. Staff were pretty cool. One of the bartenders entertained us briefly with some tricks. Small pitchers of beer were dirt cheap. Nothing else stood out here. OVERALL: typical Sixth Street Bar.

Decent bar! Nice service. Wonderful name:)

So, my friends and I came here after being referred here by a bartender at another bar in the Dirty 6^th area. It’s definitely not as big the other bars around 6^th street but it’s still definitely worth checking out. Yah, the restroom is a little weird.
Take my advice (and the advice of the bartender who sent us here), and get the DIRTY DR. PEPPER. It’s quite the experience.
Spoiler: it gets hot (literally)

I was told there would be hookers here! Once again, I was lied to…
Typical Sixth Street bar. The bartender was pretty cool, but I suspect that may be because I was with someone who was a friend.
The most entertaining element of my visit were the two sloppy drunk high school girls sitting at the bar.

What can I say? It’s another BAR on 6^th St. I really don’t «do» bars much anymore, unless they let me get up and PLAY.
The bar was OK, but I was there to party with my Unilocal Friends, after we showed our Unilocal Community Manager, Kelly, just how much we APPRECIATE her (over at Handle Bar)!
And guess who showed up at Mooseknuckle? The Guest of Honor herself!
But I did get one bite of Mooseknuckle’s Brie Cheeseburger; now THAT might be worth going back for; we’ll see…
Do they have «COAT CHECK»? C’mon, Unilocal; get REAL.
Sorry, no pics this time.
I mean, WHY?
It’s a BAR.
On 6^th St.
I’ll take a pic of a random bar and post it here; same thing…
And I can hear it already: «Larry wrote a SHORT review? Not possible!»
DON’T get used to it… ;-)
larrythediner
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Wait. Hold on. Is this… is this really happening? Am I really writing a review for a bar on dirty 6^th called Mooseknuckle?
Hold on to your butts.
You might be wondering why in the world I went here. Dirty 6^th is so not my scene — I managed to avoid the area throughout the entirety of my college career. Yeah, that’s right. I never got drunk on dirty 6^th while attending UT. (I actually never really got drunk in college, either. All that fun was to happen later.)
Anyway, maybe that’s why I felt the need to get it out of my system? I imagine my inner dialogue went something like this:
«Well, you were just at Pride, and this might be fun! The crowd will probably be different from what it normally is — that could be nice. And Joe C. is here! What could go wrong, right?» Oh, and I thought it would be funny to check in and say, «I heard this was a good place to pick up hookers.» You know, because of some stuff I’d seen in some talk thread and a certain other review for this place. Hilarious, right?
I guess?
We walked in and some drunk girls asked my friend if they could see my umbrella. My friend said yes, thinking they were a coat check. REALLY? You honestly thought a place called Mooseknuckle has a coat check? Rookie mistake, I suppose. (Side note: I need to take him out more.) These drunk girls then proceeded to throw my umbrella across the room and try to open it. I was having none of that. «Excuse me, that’s my umbrella. Can I have that back?» «Oh, uh, I was gonna open it.» «Yeah, that’s not a good idea. Let me just get that from you.»
One of the drunken umbrella captors then came up to me and asked me if I was gay. Not for you, sweetie. She informed me she wasn’t, but she loved me anyway. Thanks? Five minutes later, this same girl asks me if I want a penis for $ 1. What? Oh, a penis lollipop. «I’ll trade you a glowstick.» «Okay!» And that’s how I met your moth… er, how I traded a glowstick for a penis.
So, college kids who might be reading this review, here’s what you need to know:
1) Sofia, the bartender in the middle, is amazing. Fabulous. Lovely. So is Valerie, the bartender in the back. Tip them well, because they work at Mooseknuckle and put up with shitheads like you.
2) The patio is better than the front. A million times better. Hang out there instead.
3) Go to basically any other bar on the street. Unless you want to meet the amazing Sofia and Valerie.
4) Learn how to barter, and you can get weird shit for nothing.
5) There is no coat check. Do not hand your things to drunk strangers. (This should be a given, but, clearly, some of you are new to this whole thing.)
6) I heard this was a good place to pick up hookers, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Yep. This is happening.
And, yes, «Mooseknuckle» refers to exactly what you think it refers to. Classy, I know.
Recently went back and visited this joint with a girl friend who wanted to relive college days. That’s exactly what this place is to me: college days. But it’s not as good now as in my times. Man, did I dance on that bar. And marry their one-​time bouncer. And score lots of free drinks. And steal Daryl the DJ’s hat and make him play Pepper by The Butthole Surfers for me even though it clashed with the crappy music scene there. Every night ended (and may still) with Journey’s «Don’t Stop Believing». I swear I can taste Jäger every time I hear that song. Disgusting.
Then the back patio got revamped. The booth I used to sleep in at 3 am while the guys cleaned up went away. The amazing duo, Gools & Cade were no longer behind the bar. Everything changed.
Then I grew up. I realized how much I’d grown up when, last we were there, I almost yelled, aghast at some lil college ho «OMG I would NEVER let my daughter wear THAT in public!» I have no filter and outed myself as being very «uncool».
I have love-​hate-​hate-​love memories of this place. Were there still familiar faces around, I would A.) judge them for not moving on, but B.) probably enjoy myself more when I do drop in. Oh well. You don’t find me on Dirty Sixth often enough to care, but I figured Mooseknuckle finally deserve a shout out from me since, if said bouncer hand’t whisked me past the line 6 years ago, bought me a drink and demanded my number… I wouldn’t have my kiddo today.
This just got sappy.
Imma go puke now.
Oh — two stars because, despite the fact that I used to rage here on a weekly basis for years… there’s just really not much about any bar on dirty that is fully appealing anymore. You’re gonig to have a fine time if you go, they have good drink specials, they do have a back patio area and a total of three bars… but, I mean, It’s Mooseknuckle…

Guess everything is bigger and cheaper in TX. $ 5 for a pitcher of adiós motherf*ker!!! Unheard of in NY.
Took off a star bc the bathroom creeped me out. There’s a cutout between the men and women’s bathrooms. I don’t need to hear men tinkling while i’m doing my business.

Situation
— I visited here on a Wednesday night on a trip in February 2013
Pros
— $ 5 pitchers of well mixed drinks and $ 5 pitchers of domestic beer
— Patio in the back
Cons
— The pitchers are the small pitchers (but for $ 5, a great buy)

Not a lot to say about it. My three stars state that it was «A-​OK», and that’s about what it was. The music was tired, and the crowd was young, but seemingly with no energy. In fact, the crowd was early 20’s, and the music was from my early 20’s, I had a total flashback, like I was transported through space and time to Richmond VA’s Shockoe Bottom, circa 1992. Only when I caught a glance of my old-​ass self in the mirror, did I realize that it was 2013, and I’m 47. *sigh* I actually didn’t choose this place. I was with my friend Hope, who was in town for a conference, and that was the destination of her fellow attendees, so that’s where we ended up. The place didn’t suck, and it didn’t blow me away. It was mediocrity with cold beer and shots. And Young MC’s «Bust a Move».

I give them this much: They do have an awesome selection of local beers on tap. But otherwise, I’ve experienced better. Stopped by while waiting on our movie to start at the Alamo Ritz. The door guy said $ 2 drafts, $ 2 wells. Yet my bill was way more than what it should’ve been.
So if you’re like me & happen to walk in based on what the door guy tells you, then you better order bud light, miller lite, coors light.

Not the biggest fan of Mooseknuckle but the drinks are always strong, the music always makes me want to shake my ass and party and the back patio is my secret little hideout.
The place gets really packed to where you can’t move or walk around and that’s one thing that I can’t stand about some of the bars on 6^th street.
Grab a pitcher of your favorite well drink from Sofia (the best & most friendly bartender there) and go hang on the patio, unless you know, you like being squished up against random sweaty strangers.