JL Beers
810 13th Ave. East
West Fargo, ND
I don’t think I’m that hard to please.
I like good food. And I like good beer.
So a place that specializes in exciting, exotic microbrews from across the country that also serves delicious, drippy cheeseburgers should be right up Suit757’s alley. Right?

Right.
So why the hell are places like JL Beers so hard to find in our overly-franchised American landscape of mediocrity?
And why do I have to travel to the end of the earth to find one?

But to the rest of us, a journey to Fargo can sure seem like it.
I’ve been to all 50 states.
But like most travelers, North Dakota was one of the very last I crossed off my list.
Unless you happen to work in the oil industry, chances are you’ve never been there either.
Which makes me wonder, if a state appears on the map, but no one you know has ever been there, does the state really exist?

JL Beers is the type of place you’d expect to find in Boston or Seattle -- not in Fargo.
The beer selection is fantastic, including some of Suit757’s obscure favorites and others that have never before graced my liver...

…such as Pursuit of Hoppiness brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Company in Idaho.
The only other place in America I’ve tried Grand Teton’s beers was in…the Grand Tetons.
To find this hopilicious red ale in Fargo of all places was a great kick-off to my evening.
I also enjoyed the heck out of some great seasonal beers from two of my favorite breweries in America, New York’s Southern Tier and California’s Sierra Nevada.

But in spite of its name and its dozens of inviting tap handles, JL Beers isn’t just a great beer bar.
The food is top notch too.
My “JL Burger” was a juicy, greasy mound of burger bliss.
Two slabs of beef smothered in melty cheese, slippery sautéed onions and a “special sauce” that would make a Big Mac blush in envy, this beauty easily made the Suit757 Burger Hall of Fame.

Red brick-decorated with neon beer signs and baseball on the flat screens, this place is beer sipping, burger munching man cave heaven.

I could understand why this place was so popular at 9 o’clock on a Tuesday night. Populated with couples on dates and West Fargo hipsters, it’s pretty clear there aren’t too many places like JL Beers in North Dakota.
That’s why I was damn glad I found it, proving once again that a Suit can find a good time in just about any type of strange place.
Even in North Dakota.
Rating: Bought the Shirt!

Hey Suit! Glad you enjoyed it. We actually have six JL Beers locations with more on the way. In addition to the one you visited in West Fargo, we have stores in downtown Fargo, Bismarck and Grand Forks, ND as well as in Moorhead, MN and in Sioux Falls, SD. And another in south Fargo will be opening soon. And did I mention the 4 or 5 planned for Minneapolis-St. Paul in the near future? Cheers!
ReplyDeleteFantastic! Thanks for doing your part to eradicate lame food and drink across America's heartland!
ReplyDelete