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

  Sour / Wild Beer Rotating
Score
7.52
ABV: 7.0% IBU: - Ticks: 123
100% Brettanomyces dark beer, fermented in stainless and aged in used red wine barrels. “Brett” is a unique yeast strain that produces flavors that would be offensive if they weren’t intentional. Flavors of sour cherry, tobacco, oak, and classic “Brett” barnyard funk, balanced by Dark Munich malt chewiness. Enjoy immediately or age at cellar temperature for a couple years.
 

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7

Bottled maybe from 2017. Pours brown. Sour notes, malts, pretty well worth it.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:39


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottled 750ml. -Courtesy of Marko, shared with him & Hrabren. Brownish coloured, small beige head, berries and light caramel in the nose. Tartish fruity, dried fruits, light barrel and acetic touch in the finish. Bit funky.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2025 at 18:53


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

0.75l bottle courtesy of Buckeyeboy, enormous thanks. Should've been my 20k in lack of special beers brewed for that, wasn't, then was randomly opened by Hrabren and Ogi while I was in an adjacent room, so it won't even be for 20k rated beers. So sad. Still, phuket, one big bottle gone from the fridge! So, let's go. Very dark brown, murky body, traces of an off-white head. Pleasant aroma, without almost any oxidation, combining dried fruit, red fruit and some acetic touches. Lean, soft, tart, mildly acetic taste, bit bretty, some malty touches, dried fruit, very well balanced, funky, very drinkable. I would almost say chuggable.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2025 at 19:19


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

0.75 l bottle kind courtesy of Marko, shared with Ogi and him, thanks. Dark amber to purple, small off-white head. Aroma is dark fruit, black currant, dark cherry, some red fruit and berries. Cocoa and chocolate. Funky, bretty, lightly cheesy, goaty. Soft earthy notes. Vinous, oaky. Intense sharp sourness, grapefruit skin, astringent, biting. Nice red fruit skins, tannic, oak barrel. Medium body, soft to moderate effervescent carbonation. Roasty and zesty bitterness. Soft vinegar notes. Lasting finish.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2025 at 19:19


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

22oz bottle pours out amber color topped with a fizzy head. Nose is brett funk some pitfruit a little peach lots going on. Taste is more of the nice brett forward funk and a little mix of fruit and raisins.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2023 at 00:06


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

Bomber at share, 2015 vintage. Mahogany pour, ring of fine beige bubbles. Fruity, tart aroma, pit fruit, figs, stone fruit. taste brings out the re wine barrel aging adding a nice wine-like taste and feel that accentuates the tart fruit.

Tried on 02 Jul 2023 at 22:26


7

Hazy brown body medium foamy tan head. Tart cherry funk woody aroma. Tart woody earthy cherry acetic flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 8/3/8/4/15 3.8

Tried from Draft on 14 May 2023 at 14:40


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

16 oz can. Pours a very deep red with an off-white head. Tart red grape, white wine aroma. Flavor is sour, oaky red grape/red wine, molasses, soy. Touch of dusty oxidation. Really good!

Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2022 at 03:25


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried on 01 Jan 2022 at 23:28


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tasty and tart as all hell. Bright citric acid notes with tart berry and vinous notes, followed by a lingering oaken bitterness. Gains jammy undertones and vanilla as it warms. Unyielding sourness takes its toll, but still a nice pint.

Tried on 13 Jun 2021 at 00:30