It was a little after 6 p.m. on Sunday night—that bizarre time when buying booze is simultaneously legal and illegal in Minnesota.
I’d been catching up with some old friends at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis and, as we headed for the door, I grabbed a few cans of the brewery’s signature pilsner, intending to bring them home. The bartender refused to let me buy them.
Had I had too much? Hardly. In fact, she would have been happy to pour another round of drinks for all of us…