How do you get into Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology?
We have not confirmed it. Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology is in the directory because it period concealment name, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology sits
Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology is in Brownsville, Texas, in Cameron County, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Brownsville — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Texas page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology are 1201 Speakeasy, about 7.1 km away.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in Brownsville
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Brownsville:
- Brownsville herald, June 9, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, November 2, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, January 8, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, August 7, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology by phone on (956) 592-4873 and on Facebook.
The address is 3231 Pablo Kisel Blvd, Brownsville, TX 78526-0018. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Back Room Shot Bar & Mixology we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room and calls it a room rather than a bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.