Nightlife in Beatrice

The owners of Brewsky’s Food & Spirits know that the best way to get friends and family together is to create a vibrant space filled with live music, all the best sporting events on TV, frosty brews, and a menu of comfort foods. While taking pride in being the spot to gather for Huskers games, as well as all other major sporting events, the owners also take immense satisfaction in serving a selection of juicy steaks, flame-broiled burgers, and wings that their chef concocted exclusively for the restaurant. The team also entertains patrons with trivia nights and shows such as dueling pianos or quarreling xylophones at the Haymarket location.

The air at 501 bar and grill pulses to the beats of live music and sports games, which are regularly toasted to with eight frigid draft beers that flow from tap lines integrated into a massive, illuminated ice block to ensure beer frigidity. Hearty homemade bratwursts prepared according to a secret recipe, towering burgers, and mounds of chicken wings top the plates of patrons mesmerized by a giant 8'x12' projection TV streaming big games or a live feed of another bar’s television set. Weekend evenings bring live bands, which perform from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Owning bars is in Josh Hallett’s blood, so it’s no surprise that when he discovered an old, 7,000-square-foot saloon in need of renovation, he jumped at the chance to buy it with his business partner—his mom. After recruiting his sister as bar manager, the family spent months rehabbing what used to be the Silver Spoke Saloon, picking out all-weather chairs for the outdoor beer garden, lining the brick and corrugated-iron walls with flat-screen TVs, and clearing space for the dance floor by unleashing a two-story Roomba.

Once the Halletts’ new bar The Alley, was complete, they set out to cultivate a festive atmosphere. Bartenders fill massive, 32- and 64-ounce mason jars with sudsy Budweisers, which weekend-revelers and Cornhusker-clad coeds can nurse on a deck overlooking M Street. The calendar of events keeps regulars coming back for beer-pong nights, live music, and theme parties