Happy Hours in Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth prices its well drinks to the penny. The Last Drop on Race Street lists $3.25 wells from 4 to 7 on weekdays. River's Cocktail on White Settlement Road lists $3.75. Low Doubt Bar on St Louis Avenue lists $4.20, and Overtime Bar and Grill on North Beach Street lists $2.75 alongside $2 domestic beers. Round numbers are the exception here, which makes comparing two bars on the same block an actual exercise.

West Magnolia Avenue on the Near Southside carries the most listings of any street, with South Main a few blocks over and West 7th across the river. Shaw's Patio Bar on Magnolia lists $4 Texas drafts. Nickel City on South Main lists $5 mixed drinks with $2 PBR. Wine Thief on Houston Street downtown lists $2 off every glass plus $10 flights, and out in the Stockyards, Los Vaqueros on Rodeo Plaza lists half-price house margaritas Monday through Saturday.

Two scheduling quirks are worth knowing. Half the listed windows here open at 3 PM rather than 4, earlier than Dallas thirty miles east. And Cheba Hut on 8th Avenue opens its window at 4:20 PM, which is a joke it commits to, listing a dollar off pints and $5 secret cocktails until 7.

Domestic bottles at $2.50 is the third most common listing in town, behind wells-and-drafts and a flat dollar off. Weekend windows run about one in twelve, so the reliable plan is a weekday afternoon.