Bill Kelley
Local beer makes good: Brewmaster Todd Haug (left) and founder Omar Ansari
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This year Surly will probably make close to 3,000 barrels. "And that place where the bartender spit the beer out? They recently called and asked for our price list."
Ansari figures Surly can get to 20,000 barrels from their Brooklyn Center home. When they do, Surly beer will have accompanied your neighbors through some half a million moments of triumph, tragedy, dinner, romance, Frisbee golf, television, lawn-mowing, helpfulness, helplessness, rage, confusion, and everything else that goes with a Minnesota beer.