Abrasive
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.87
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A massive dose of Citra hops launch our legendary double IPA (Minnesota’s first, and a nod to our abrasives factory origin) into the hophead stratosphere.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Draft at the Bavarian Lodge, Lisle. Cloudy, orangey IPA color, sudsy head of bubbles coating the sides of the glass. Smells like an apricot sundae—it’s-just-that-hoppy! Taste is bursting with with syrupy malts and the fruitier side of American hops. Despite the name, I found this to be quite smooth, until I started to feel a bitter burn on my soft palate. Now the more familiar hop character of grapefruit, pine and an otherwise undefinable snap, like, yanking a big strip off a roll of strapping tape.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2009
at 11:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
++++ RE-RATE 28 November 2012 ++++
Pint can purchased at Zipps in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Canned on 11/14/12 according to stamp on the bottom of the can. The pour is a slight haze orange golden with a well formed one inch light tan head. The head falls slow with thick lacing. The aroma is fresh resin tropical fruit hops, along with a fruit stripe gum sweetness. The taste has the pineapple fruit up front, along with resin dankness then turns towards more bright sweetness, and a somewhat rough malt character. The finish is dry leafy grassy hops. There is also a solid amount of alcohol heat in the back that further dries the finish out. The palate is medium bodied, tiny soft carbonation bubbles, and the dry bitter hop and hot finish. This beer is solidly made, real fresh, and I imagine it is precisely what they intended to brew. However, this is not 100% my thing at the moment. I used to really enjoy this type of beer. Thanks to Tyler for the fresh can, with an assist to my Dad. I’ll keep the original score for posterity sake. (7,4,7,3,14 - 3.5)
++++ Original Rating - 19 January 2009 ++++
Handbottle shared by beastiefan2k at Indra’s Strong Ale Fest. Pour is cloudy orange ruby, with a smallish off white head. Nice thick lacing left behind on the glass as the head falls. Aroma is honey sweet, with gritty grainy resinous hops. Taste is the gritty resin citrus pine hops, sweet malty honey, and some nice floral expressions to the back. Palate is medium, pretty sticky and lasting finish. Nice one, thanks Eugene. (8,4,7,3,16 - 3.8)
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2009
at 09:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Growler that Ty was able to pick this up for me, thanks man. I pop open the growler and the hoppy aroma just wafts the room. It pours a thick, dark orange color into a white wine glass, can barely see through it. The large head fades quickly. Aroma is very sweet, definitely underattenuated, with thick topical fruity hops. It is sweet, thick, and hoppy. Taste follows suit with sweet bubblegum hops. Its a sweet hop brew with sweet underattenuated sugars. In this case, this worked for me.
Tried
from Growler
on 10 Jan 2009
at 00:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Smelled like concentrated hops and tastes like eating a hop pellet. Some malt sweetness, which makes it surprisingly well balanced for a beer so loaded with hop bitterness. Thanks to Skyview for sharing this one that I missed from Surly.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2009
at 19:43