Boise-based internet beer retailer Brewforia is opening a temporary store this week — in the real world. As in 435 Milwaukee St.

This means you will be able to just go the Brewforia store (next to the Moxie Java in that strip mall on the west side of the street) and buy many of those bottles of beer you can’t find anywhere else in Boise — instead of waiting for a delivery.

Brewforia owner Rick Boyd hopes to have the store open by Friday, but is still trying to find enough coolers to stock as many as 150 different varieties of craft beer he hopes to have for sale to you, the thirsty and discerning beer customer.

This is good news for people like me, who just don’t like shopping for anything over the Internet — especially beer. I am an old-school record store kind of guy. I visit the Record Exchange at least once a week and flip through the CD’s and old vinyl records. Beer is the same way. I like to go to a package store (usually the Boise Co-Op), check out the beer selection, buy what I want, and take it home.

Boyd also plans to serve beer on tap at the Milwaukee Street site, which he wants to keep open until February while he continues to look for a permanent location for his specialty beer store, to complement his Web based beer retailing business.

Beers will be sold as single bottles — which is a must for any good beer store.

The key to Brewforia’s appeal is that the business can get beers like Dogfish Head or Great Divide or Allagash that are otherwise not sold in Boise by going through a beer distributor in northern Idaho — which has better access to Washington’s beer market than our local distributors do.

The way the beer business works in Idaho is that distributors decide what you get a chance to drink — not bars or retail outlets. The Boise Co-Op, for instance, can only sell what beers the local southwest Idaho distributors decide to bring in. Fortunately for us, our local distributors do a pretty good job of bringing in lots of regional craft beers for us to enjoy. No real complaints there.

But sometimes, you just want a beer you can’t have. That’s where Brewforia comes in. If Boyd can keep up a steady supply of beers we can’t otherwise get in Boise, the Brewforia beer store will be a real asset to our burgeoning Boise craft beer scene.