The Most Important Import of All - Surly Furious

Calhouh spends a few days in the Twin Cities every week. I miss him a lot when he's gone and Sogn is unbearably sad when he packs up and drives away. But, when he comes back and he is usually stocked up on goodies from the Twin Cities. He stops at our favorite places - Everett's Food and Meats, Chuck and Don's Pet Food Outlet, Seward Co-op, and Zipp's Liquors where he picks up some Surly Furious.

Furious is my favorite beer of all time. It is hopped to the max, smooth, and has the best flavors. I love it. You cannot buy it anywhere down here and it is my favorite import to Southwest Minnesota.

Also - It's important to note that Surly is brewed very near my old high school stomping grounds. What up northwest burbs!

It's a Small School After All

Tracy's Saloon is our favorite restaurant in all of Minnesota. It has many incredible features, but our favorite is when they have wooden nickel, happy hour, during which you can buy a beer and you get a wooden nickel, for a free beer, redeemable at any time in the future. We found out about Tracy's because it's a favorite spot for many of the students in Calhoun's graduate department because of the great deals, totally relaxed atmosphere and incredible mix of people.

Thursday night I headed off to Tracy's at 9 to meet Calhoun after he got done with the class he is a teaching assistant for at the University. Thursday is not only a wooden nickle night, but Taco Night - we try and make it about once a month. Anyways, I'm sitting in the booth, cradling my Surly Furious and spinning my wooden nickel and in comes Calhoun and our friend, Kawishiwi, came in! Kawishiwi is a good friend from college who is a graduate student at the U in a different department than Calhoun, but they ran into each other leaving school! On a campus of more than 50,000 student, what are the odds?

We had a great night. The boys enjoyed the Summit Red Ale from the Summit Brewing Company right here in St. Paul, we watched the Vikings not make their first round draft pick and talked a lot about upcoming trips to the Boundary Waters!