Surly Brewing Company Devil's Work: Barrel-Aged

Devil's Work: Barrel-Aged

 

Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter - Imperial Special Out of Production
Score
6.96
ABV: 8.7% IBU: - Ticks: 23
Aged in a Whiskey Barrel for 6 months, this single barrel selected Devil's Work is a robust porter brewed with blackstrap molasses, star anise, and dry hopped with Sterling hops. The dark ale has flavors of black licorice, blackened malt and spicy-floral hop aroma.

Admin Note: Draft Only
 

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5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

01.05.2015, tap @ CBC:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish fruity, soda powder, sour berries, whitewine, oak, sorrel, licorice, grass. Taste is sour-ish dry, oak, weeds, whiskey, dark malts, grass, weeds, hay, bark. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough, kind of strange...

Tried from Draft on 27 Nov 2018 at 08:01


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and a bit of smoke. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and a bit of liquorice, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Tried on 12 May 2016 at 03:06


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ CBC2015. Pours black with a small beige head that leaves some sparse trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is malty with roasted malts, bread, charred wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, toasted nuts and moist soil. Taste is tiny sweet, slightly bitter, very tiny sour and malty. Mouthfeel is slightly dry, slightly astringent and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, bitter and very tiny sour with roasted malts, dark bread, vanilla fudge, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, charcoal and moist soil. So-so…

Tried on 09 Dec 2015 at 10:49


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught@CBC2015 (blue session). Black colour, small head. Aroma is raisins, ash, some slight liquorice and mild burnt wooden notes. Flavour is liquorice, alcohol, some smoked wood and toasted malts as well.

Tried on 25 Nov 2015 at 07:48



7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught @ CBC 2015 [ Blue Session ]. - Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2015, Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [ As Surly Barrel Aged Devil’s Work ].Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark malt, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, dark malt, roasted, sweet malt, wood notes, sharp notes - quit odd. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150501]

Tried on 18 Aug 2015 at 14:23


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft @ CBC 2015. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty woody caramel aroma. Roasted malty woody caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty woody caramel finish.

Tried from Draft on 07 Aug 2015 at 07:51


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

CBC. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and moderate hoppy - fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 010515

Tried on 23 Jul 2015 at 15:20



7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours dark brown with small offwhite head, lacings. Aroma of malt, rye, light tartness, cocoa, wood, little hops. Flavor is roasted malt, cocoa, little tartness, wood, dark chocolate, light citrusly hops. Medium body, average carboantion, dry and light bitter finish. 010515

Tried on 11 Jul 2015 at 02:22