The World's Longest Bar Is For Sale & It Comes With A Hotel, Liquore Store & Restaurant

Have you always wanted to own a bar? Here is your chance to own the "World's Longest Bar," as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records on the world's most prestigious island of Put-In-Bay on Lake Erie. 

With a whopping 405-feet of continuous bar and seating for 850 customers, the Beer Barrel Saloon is ready for an owner who wants to run one of the prized jewels in the bar & restaurant industry. 

For $13,000,000, the new owner gets more than just the world's longest bar. You're also taking ownership of the only liquor store license on the island, a 52-room hotel, a seafood and steakhouse restaurant, a gift shop and a beverage center where visitors can grab cases of beer. 

(The world-famous Beer Barrel Saloon on Lake Erie's Put-In-Bay Island is for sale. / via Realtor.com / Presented by Richard "Rudy" Cooks Brokered by: Howard Hanna - Catawba)

As someone who has held a golf tournament the last five summers on Put-In-Bay, I know many of these businesses very well and I understand the real estate that we're talking about here. The Beer Barrel Saloon has the biggest footprint of any bar on the island. We're talking about 25,000 square feet of indoor bar space. 

The barrel is huge, but it needs a reboot. 

Here's how I update the Barrel to the 21st century: 

1. Attach Kid Rock's name to the front of the place…BOOOM…instant business

2. Kid Rock's "Summertime" plays at 2-4-6-8 & Jack Daniel's shots are $1 during the playing of the anthem

3. Garage doors on the front of the building to give that inside-out vibe & attract the crowds walking down the street

4. Paint the place; less VFW, more Nashville / Key West for suburbia and the small-town Americans who can't afford Nashville or Key West

5. Better lighting; less VFW, more Nashville

6. Sell shirts that read something like "I Got Drunk At The World's Longest Bar" 

7. Hire a TikTok video team; they don't need to be there every night, but they need to be creating storylines for the women who are at home on a Tuesday dreaming about the Bay. 

8. Keep the longest bar as is. Don't mess with an institution. Work around it.

9. Sell yards of daiquiries on the patio; nothing says we need to see this place like people sucking down yards of   daiquirion the patio while potential customers walk by

10. High-top tables; take out the low VFW tables near the dance floor. Modern 25 to 35s love high-tops. Your grandparents love the VFW tables. The grandparents can sit at the bar. 

The focus here should be country bar meets Key West. I'm making this a must-visit for the women who love Nashville and Key West. I want bachelorette parties to walk in and think less VFW and more Tootsie's. I want novelties. Yards of daiquiries. I want simple point-of-sale stations everywhere. 

Yes, it's awesome to have the massive bar as the novelty draw, but people 25 to 35 want to mingle. They want big high-top tables to hang around. 

And please, please hire a social media team.