Amazing Beers that are Easy to Find Year-Round?

won't find three floyds, but regular surly stuff is easy to come by, steel toe is great, what kind of beer do you like? that might answer the question a bit easier. Surly Smoke can still be found around town.

 

Bells Two Hearted

Anything from Founders.

Surly is easy to find in the Twin Cities and Rochester. You won't find it in Iowa, they distribute to Minnesota exclusively.

Summit EPA

 

Founders & Odell. Between the two you'll have your bases covered.

If you like hoppy beers Odell Myrcenary, IPA, and 5 Barrel Pale Ale are must tries.

 

buy some odells
Myrcenary(2ipa)
ipa

Boulevard Tank 7

Steel Toe brews (available in about 7 stores now)

 

I will agree with others that your best bets for stuff not in Cali are Surly, Founders and Odell. Boulevard Smokestack beers as well (Tank 7, Sixth Glass). Just about all of the beers from these brewers are good to incredible. Check their year rounds and summer seasonals for what you would most enjoy.

Other MN beers worth mentioning are the new Summit Saga IPA, new Schell Emerald Rye (hoppy lager), new Brau Brothers Hopsession Pale Ale (low abv, high ibu), and new Steel Toe Size 7 IPA. We have great new stuff coming out of MN. Of course, those are all hoppy beers. For some reason, MN beer drinkers (even more mainstream ones not on BA) are known for drinking a ridiculous amount of IPAs.

 

I'm not sure if there is still Boulevard's Rye-on-Rye on shelves in the cities, but it's a mighty fine beer if you like whisky and rye beer.

I also agree with picking up some Surly, Founders, and Odell. Look into Central Waters specialty/seasonal stuff. I've only had a 2 of their regular beers, and wasn't that impressed, but their special stuff, great.

Another brand worth mentioning is Stone. Not sure if you've ever had anything from them, but I would grab stuff from them first if you don't normally have access to them.

 

My best suggestion would be to set your boss up for success, and call ahead to one of the better beer stores in the area based upon where he will be in the Twin Cities. Zipps, 4 Firkins, Princeton's, Heritage, South Lyndale, etc., and tell them he'll be coming. Then you can give him the address of the store so he won't have to randomly pick a store. No doubt any of these stores would be willing to take the time to help him pick out the best beers.

 

On behalf of the stores listed above, can I request that you do both?

 

If you're looking for MN beers, three that are still a bit under the radar are Steel Toe, Brau Bros., and Olvalde Farm. All of them offer some wonderful beers and I think are real up-and-comers.

 

I meant pinning the list to his shirt...that's classic

 

Steel Toe (all are great but suggest Size 7 IPA), Summit Saga is an excellent new IPA from summit. If he's up for some growler transport, head to Harriet Brewing for some Saison Nourice and Wodan Weizen although all of their beers are excellent.

 

I just saw some at Cheers in Bloomington.

 

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