Henry Beam’s Blue Bar

Best Bar in livermore! The drinks are strong, the service is great and there DJ is the Best around!

Just stopped by for a minute at the end of the night but it looked like a great time! Can’t wait to go back in a few weeks!!!

Decided to drop by over the weekend and only made it as far as the entrance. As a well known establishment in Livermore I figured this would be a great place to hangout and cut loose. Upon arrival there were already people outside dealing with the cops because of a fight that broke out earlier. We ignored this and continued walking toward the door. For a place in such a beautiful area they sure do bring the property value down. The parking lot is right in front of the bar and needs to be resurfaced badly. Blue Bar looks like the shady spot in the most unsavory part of downtown, and that’s saying a lot because it has transformed so much in the last 10 years. It’s hard to find something as unappealing as this bar because it’s surrounded by historic buildings and beautiful new shops and restaurants. I poked my head in to see what it was like inside and I’m glad I did! The bouncer was using a metal detector to check each person, there’s no dress code, and like others have mentioned before the crowd is very interesting (they attract all types). This was way different from what I expected from a bar in downtown Livermore, it looked like somewhere you’d go in Hayward or San Leandro. In other words it was ratchet and that’s the only way to explain it properly. Blue Bar? No thanks!

Blue Bar is always a good time and a great bar! I feel safe here and always have so much fun. Good mix of people and no cover charge or dress code! Parking around the bar and this area in general is always a breeze! Also, don’t be shocked to see Livermore PD popping their heads in every so often to make sure the crowd is kept in control and no drama is taking place. I can appreciate that and the safety!
The only complaint I have is how darn hot it gets in here. The place isn’t huge and tends to get pretty crowded so the heat rises quickly! I think Blue Bar needs to invest in a few more fans or pump up the AC before someone faints up in there! Also, the drinks aren’t strong at all! I would appreciate a little more alcohol in my drinks!
Other than that, check it out! The DJ is awesome and the music keeps you two stepping, or twerking (whatever you’re into!)

I wish I could give this place zero stars. This place has gots ta go! It attracts trouble and trash. Our cute little Livermore deserves better. Bulldoze the place!

Who knew this type of place would exist in Livermore let alone the foot traffic that comes in. All hip hop but yet tiny. No dress code. All different types of life walk through here — young, old, ratchet, you know name it.
I will say that drink prices are the lowest I’ve seen. $ 20 for a gin and tonic, Henn and coke, martini, and a bottle water. $ 13 for Henn and coke and jack and diet!!! That’s a bonus for going out in Livermore. However, there were only 2 bartenders with such a crowded bar. It nearly took 20 minutes to order a drink. C’mon you can do better than that.
The people? Definitely a crowd to start an altercation just to get entertainment since Livermore is super dry. Security guards lacked professionalism, but maybe cause I’m used to bouncers in SF.
All in all, ratchet for Livermore.

Stopped in here on a quiet Wednesday evening after work with the co-​workers. Friendly gal was our bartender for the evening. The music was a bit loud, but we sat back and had a couple of beers, watched the more inebriated customers hit on the bartender (even though she had a wedding ring on ;P) and there was baseball on the tv. No complaints, its close to work, sorta close to home, will have to come back for a stiff drink next time.

GROSS. As soon as we walked in, the place reeked! IDK if they had plumbing issues or what, but the place wasn’t even that busy and it was just dirty. We walked in and the smell was so foul that we walked right out. YUCK.

Blue Bar is just awful! Too small, dirty, and the bartenders are not well versed on drinks.(annoying) if you dont know the drink that is requested, how about you ask whats in it and how to make it…
BUY an airconditioner!!! This place gets so hot and crowded its just gross and no fun. If you want to sweat before you even start dancing then Blue Bar is for you. I did once see a floor fan… real professional.
Bathrooms = FOUL
Honestly I will never go here again its just a hot mess.

Do you like having to constantly looking over your shoulder?
How about feeling like you shouldn’t touch anything for fear of disease?
Are you fond of 20-​something year old donkey witches?
How about wannabe thugs with a constant hunger for attention?
If the answer is yes, then come on down to Blue Bar! Where our clientele are as shady as the giant tree next to our building. Here at the Blue Bar we can offer you great pastimes such as…
Who roofied my drink?
Is that a woman?
Who can puff their chest out more?
Chess…
And my personal favorite, «did I just get stabbed?»
Still not sold? Let me sweeten the pot!
We can offer you the finest in customer satisfaction.
Looking for overflowing toilets with surfing turds floating past you at the bar? We got that.
We also offer free jabs to your ribs with pool cues instead of a polite «excuse me» (normally a $ 20 value but we’re passing the savings onto you!)
If that weren’t enough we also offer a hobo exhibit outside… wach them piss, shit, drink, puke, and piss some more! In as close to a natural habitat that we can provide.
Our customer’s safety is our top priority, no weapons, no hoodies… No hats? But we’ll go ahead and keep letting the troublemakers come back.
Do you like music? Then you’ll hate our DJ!
That’s right it’s nonstop auto tune up in this bitch! Some people prefer real talent, but here at Blue Bar we do the robot voice and you’d better like it that way. Watch Shamu the disgusting frat girl grind and absorb the stripper pole with tactical precision. We have more pencil beards and Ed Hardy shirts than you can shake a stick at… you won’t find that at any of our competitors establishments.
If you’re looking for a clean bar with great atmosphere… fuck you. But if you want to contract the plague and syphilis at the same time while asking yourself the age old question «is that chick getting fingered on the dance floor? «This is your spot.

I was a little leary of going here after reading the reviews on Unilocal,but my friend wanted to go here for her b-​day so we went and it was pretty decent. No cover charge, we didnt get wanded, it didnt feel ghetto at all, it was your normal dive bar. Decent priced drinks and heavy handed bartenders, free bottled water and hip hop music all night. Crowd was a mixed crowd which I always appreciate we stayed until they shut it down at 2am.
There are cops that patrol Livermore pretty heavily, have a designated driver or taxi cab it.

Ladies — please note that the security is all over it here. One word to a bouncer about some annoying douche bag stepping over the line and they’re outta there. No other spot in Downtown Livermore is going to have security like they do. Even when that larger place was open across the street (you know the one that’s a BBQ joint now) their security wasn’t alert and lookin out half the time. These guys take care of their women.
And cops are always downtown — at every bar. its Livermore.

Wanna know why the cops are always here? Go inside
Metal detector before entering? Great idea!!!

First off they pour a high octane drink that’s for sure.
But you know it’s gonna be all bad when you have to empty pockets and get wanded down by a metal detector before entering. The kid in front of me had a 5inch folding knife taken away from him. Sketchy.
So this place houses every would be thug from the 925. All the trust fund kids and urban gangsters love this place.
Packed to the gills and loud blaring music. It’s pretty much a club scene inside this small bar. Seen one guy pretty much eating this girls face right next to me. Might as well have been porn.
All in all i think I have tried to avoid this scene since I got a bit older. It’s fun every once in a while though.
I’m sure I may return here in the future.

A true effing dive bar in the purest sense of the definition. Anytime I can get wanded (i.e. metal detector, frisk for weapons, etc.) you just gotta know your in for a swell time. Oh yeah another thing… the walls are fucking BLUE! This place has the aura of a strip club that had sex with a truck stop that produced a baby that was born in a meth lab with a restraining order already in place.
Other than the fact that we all dipped ourselves in rubbing alcohol (i.e. vodka) after leaving I’m sure this place serves a certain purpose for some people. OK so the bartender was totally cool, our drinks were stiff & nobody got shot, stabbed or raped. Aside from that I just must be fucking old or not gangsta enough to appreciate this place.

I went here again last night and just want to elaborate on the service. Excellent service here. The bartenders are all very friendly and get to you as quickly as they can. They are the very definition of great bartenders and I will gladly go here just for their service.
However, still not a fan of the type of crowd here. It’s pretty much a sausage fest trying to get laid and, honestly, light flirting here and there is fine, but you won’t find that here. That type of atmosphere is what is preventing me from becoming a regular here, which I understand isn’t really the Blue Bar’s fault. Any bar you go to that has been around a while will have an established type of people that hang out there and the sleazy creepers just happen to congregate here.
If you want good service and drinks to match, though, here you go!

As a dive bar connoisseur, I have to say I’m rather smitten witth Blue Bar. It’s less than a block away from the main Livermore nightlife (a lounge, traditonal club, and a saloon), but once inside the blue tinted walls… it just reeks of fantastic sleaziness (my favorite atmosphere when in a dive bar)!! It looks like something that would probably pass for a stripclub in a town of less than 10K residents.
First and foremost, I went here on a Saturday evening after trying out the lounge and club nearby (Sanctuary & Saphire). I didn’t feel like overpaying for drinks the whole night at Sanctuary (while watching 50+ year old men stumble around drunkenly in tattoo inspired button-​ups), or standing around the edges of Saphire’s dance floor (Jr. high style) while the DJ was stuck in a permanent early 00’s traffic jam mix. So I decided to walk back to the place that was playing vintage Snoop Dogg (Death Row era) when I passed it earlier in the night.
No cover. No pat down. Just an ID check and a blood red stamp on the wrist to get in. The drinks were poured with a HEAVY hand (I did the count in my head Rainman style) and I saw doubles being poured on literally every drink (in a short glass at that).
Seriously, anyone who came of age in the Central Valley during the 90’s (and has fond memories of the local music produced during that time) should appreciate this place. I’ve never heard so much East Coast, Bay Area, and Underground rap played in a bar all night long without a gunshot going off (sad but true). The DJ was damn good and kept the atmosphere lively and fun.
As for folks claiming it might be sketchy/dangerous…that’s the whole point and allure of dive bar’s. However, after witnessing a few supposed thugs ordering a «Captain & Diet Coke»… I knew the danger was minimal.

My first review after a 2 year Unilocal hiatus is a local dive bar in Livermore.
Awesome.
What can I say? It’s blue. It’s shady. It’s cheap as all hell!
I was here with a group of 12 a day after raging all night in SF for NYE and it was exactly what I expected. The guys all got wanded before entering, Christmas lights hanging around the bar, the DJ in cage?, tiny dance floor, and no one attractive. But the music was good — some top 40, hip hop, and of course tunes straight from the bay — Ghost Ride The Whip! The drinks were cheap and STRONG. The 2 bartenders were huge and slightly scary looking but they turned out to be so rad. Shit, one of them bought me a couple a rounds! All in all it was a good night at a cool little local bar.

5 stars for nostaglic reasons. 3 stars now. 4 star total.
The BF is originally from Livermore so occasionally we head out that way for a night out with his friends. For those of you who don’t know this about me, the born and raised SF girl once decided to move as far away from The City as possible and still technically be in the Bay and landed in Livermore for a one year lease in a cute apartment. And if you ever been under 35 and lived in Livermore you’ve spent more time than you care to admit in «The Blue Bar» as it is still known amongst the locals.
Yes it is a cool mini club. It is also the only club of any size in the adorable mini city of Livermore (not an insult, I am actually a huge fan of the budding city). Well it is truly the only place to dance without crossing city lines into Pleasanton or into the «hood» of Dublin. (I never got the Dublin Ghetto thing)
The Blue Bar always has great music, an awesome sound system, the sweetest no nonsense security guards (If Bear still works there I Love Him!), sexy bartenders, and lethal cocktails! ;-) Even for a big city girl like me, I always had an amazing time. Just a different personality than the night clubs I was used to. A bit more laid back and fun.
Only thing I don’t like is the fact that the bedroom in my apartment is bigger than the dance floor, and that if you kiss a hottie on the dance floor you’re also literally kissing every Tom, Dick, and Mary in the place– A small problem in small towns (in the only hot bar in small town you literally know everyone in the joint– at least by sight).
But it is the first dance floor I danced with the man I will someday marry. It is the first place he told me he loved me. And it is still an extremely fun night out, every time we make it out there!

If you are into getting creeped on by unsavory pervs and waiting half an hour for a drink then you will LOVE the Blue Bar!
I try to avoid it at all costs, but sometimes you get dragged there by someone who thinks its a good idea. Guess what. It isn’t. There are constantly fights breaking out and people getting arrested out front. I’ve heard about horrifying things happening there. So please, if you value your life, do not go to the blue bar.