Sÿx
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Special Out of Production|
Score
6.69
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Utilizing six wood species in a “Honey Comb”* shape for aging this anniversary beer, SŸX comes in at 15% ABV and is one to be savored with its pale gold color, dry toffee and fruit character and warming afterglow finish.
*HONEY COMB® is a registered trademark of Black Swan Cooperage, LLC in Park Rapids, MN.
*HONEY COMB® is a registered trademark of Black Swan Cooperage, LLC in Park Rapids, MN.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is very malt forward with caramel, sugar, toffee and honey. Some light cracker and toasted bread notes. Faint oak notes. Light herbal, grassy notes. Light alcohol spice. Medium light esters with a floral note as well as some stone fruit. Pours a somewhat hazy, copper-orange with a medium small, somewhat thin, white head that recedes steadily to the edges where small clumps linger. Light lacing and fairly long legs. Flavor is fairly sweet, but with a dry alcoholic finish. Moderately strong notes of caramel, honey, toasted bread, candi sugar and toffee. Medium bitterness with a grassy, herbal note. Medium light oak notes. Quite a bit of alcohol spice in the finish. Fairly woody especially in the finish; lingering wood and alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is medium to medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and moderate alcohol warmth. Some weird fruity and floral esters. Overall, I am not a fan. The body is thin for the amount of alcohol. The wood is overpowering. The malt profile is too light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2016
at 09:42
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks to my old Secret Santa for this bomber. Hazy, orange color, with a small, bubbly, beige head. Toffee, cereals, orange peel, and caramel. Sweet, with a strange bitterness and off sourness. Very heavy body, sticky, acidic, and syrupy. This is a very strong beer, but it has an off flavor.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2016
at 20:17
9/10
Tried
on 28 Sep 2015
at 13:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours out a golden topped with a small head. Nose is very fruity mango pineapple pear barrel vanilla and spice. Taste is more of the fruit combo along with a barrel presents vanilla toffee and nice cereal malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2015
at 16:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap. Clear golden orange color with off white head. Malty aroma, caramel, citrusy fruity, alcoholic, perfume notes. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2015
at 11:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Side Project tasting night; cold deep orange pour with a thin white head, aroma has sweet marmalade, taste is really big booze, tangerine, sweet toffee, some apple, nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2015
at 15:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with small frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is fruity malt and wheat. Medium mouth, dark fruit, caramel with a strong booze presence, good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2015
at 10:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the 9th Richmond Rare & Unusual Epic Tasting, Richmond, VA, 11/30/14. Pours a hazy orange with a thin fizzy off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of toffee, toasted malt, spice, apples. The taste is toasted malt, caramel, bread, spice, apples. Medium bodied, mild lingering spice, mild booze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2014
at 15:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear amber color. Aroma of vanilla, stone fruit and booze. Taste is boozy, fruity, complex. A big beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 13:27