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A bar tour consists of a group of people visiting a series of bars in one night, as opposed to drinking in the same bar the entire night. Bar tours usually take place in areas where many bars are located near each other, so that the partipants can walk from bar to bar. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A pub crawl is the act of visiting and drinking alcohol at a number of pubs in a single night with a group of friends. ...

In the United States, where the drinking age is 21, it has become a tradition for people to go on a bar tour with their friends on their 21st birthday. Some traditions hold that one should consume 21 shots of liquor on one's 21st birthday, but this can be very dangerous, as the standar American shot is much bigger than the standard 2 cl European shot. Many American universities have taken steps to discourage this practice in the aftermath of students becoming extremely sick or even dying. In some college towns, a person cannot purchase or consume shots in bars until a certain amount of time has passed since his or her 21st birthday.

In addition to birthday celebrations, it is also a common practice for a group of friends to go on a bar tour right before or right after their college or graduate school graduation. Bachelor parties and bachelorette parties are other common bar tour occasions.

Some bar tours are organized as an anual event and may be so large that the participants do not even know all of the other people in the group. For example, it is common for Irish-American groups to have a bar tour on or around St. Patrick's Day. The group may even have t-shirts made for the occassion. Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... St. ...

Some bar tours are even held for charity. Participants pay a flat fee, which allows then to enter all of the particpating bars, without having to pay cover charges at each bar. The fee may also include a certain number of drinks. A portion of the proceeds in then donated to a particular charity.