Furious
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.57
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Like Hops? You’ll like this fire-hued beer. This is the beer I have always dreamed of making. This is the beer that would come to mind while spending the last two years tearing down walls, hanging sheetrock, moving kegs, power washing the ceilings, arguing with various agencies, and cutting the water main. Without Golden Promise malt, made by family-owned Simpsons Malt, Furious would just be pissed offed. From Scotland, this malt is still produced in the tradition of turning over the barley by hand, resulting in a malt that is unsurpassed in its quality. Golden Promise is also used extensively by premium whisky distilleries such as The Macallan. This malt provides the backbone for the intense hop character. Four American hop varieties are used at a rate of over three pounds per barrel. The result is a rich malt sweetness infused with bright hop flavor and aroma from beginning to end. Oh yeah, it’s about 6% alcohol and around 100 IBUs.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Kindly of Gunhaver. Magic in a can, amber pour , thin white head with a strong presence of hops. Beautifully balanced with the malt. A little fruity with some citrus.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jun 2008
at 11:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the Dock Cafe in Stillwater, MN. Another beer rating succumbed to the usually helpful text message cleanup on my cell phone. This was a strong IPA, with the hops kick of a Double IPA but apparently not the alcohol content. Big, fresh, rindy, grapefruity hops blasted through the creamy, soft, bready, somewhat sweet malt backbone. Lingering bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 May 2008
at 17:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Golden / brown colour with an off-white head. Aroma is citrus, hop. Flavour is citrus, hop, grapefruit. Brutal, bitter beer.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2008
at 22:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, from trade with akevitt. It pours a brownish golden body, unclear, with a quite small off-white head. Hoppy nose, rather intense, borderline catpee, as well as sweetish. Nice though. Really heavy on the malty flavors, still there’s enough hops to give it a citrusy, resiny flavor. Quite intense flavor, good, but a bit too much of everything in a strange way, I usually really enjoy that. Full body, and an astringently bitter finish lasting for a good while. Nice beer, but as mentioned, a bit too much. (080305)
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2008
at 13:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thick hazy amber - ugly body with a rich "we used a lot of hops" head. Big hop nose - orangey, wood with an earthy, breadcrusty background. Fat body is resiny with hops, in a pleasingly moderate bitterness matched by caramelized sugars that are only slightly sticky. An assault of hops - perhaps lacking the sense of style you see in the best PNW examples but this is nonetheless well-structured.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2008
at 08:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can, 6.2%. Thanks, yespr. Powerful hop aroma, very nice, fat, teaish and caramelly. Almost clear dark brown colour. Small tan head. The flavour is quite bitter, turning into a good hop flavour and then back to bitter. The bitterness is clean and pleasant and the hop flavour quite teaish. Good maltiness to balance the hops. 9 3 9 3 18
Can, 6.6%. Good grassy hop aroma. Clear dark amber colour. Small stable off-white head. The flavour is nicely grassy with a good bitterness to balance the slight sweetness. Flavourful and well-balanced. 8 3 8 3 15
Can, 6.6%. Good grassy hop aroma. Clear dark amber colour. Small stable off-white head. The flavour is nicely grassy with a good bitterness to balance the slight sweetness. Flavourful and well-balanced. 8 3 8 3 15
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2008
at 07:51
8.5/10
from a few years ago: Copper color with a thick head, bitterness of hops hits you & also taste of pine & spices float around
Tried
on 23 Dec 2007
at 14:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Awesome beer from a can! And hoppy? Man. At 6.2% its an IPA, but the hop rate here is all DIPA levels. Big huge piney resiny hop aromas, followed by monstrous resiny hop flavors. Hugely bitter finish. Huge, just huge. There’s a brown sugared toast for the malt, which is heavy enough but is clearly taking a back seat. Lightly hazed dark reddish copper, big beige head, thick and protein rich, with moderate lacing.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2007
at 14:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Thin offwhite head. Amber body with light carbonation. Intense oily mango aroma with catty hop notes. Dry-and-sweet roasty catty mango taste, somewhat chalky. Slightly oily mouthfeel. Dry chalky catty hop aftertaste. It’s good, but it’s a bit one-sided and thin. Still interesting. (0.47l can at Knut Albert’s.)
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2007
at 07:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a Big Boy Can. O ya. Pours out a nice amber topped with a off white head. A very nice hop aroma along with a great hop tast. A very nice and thick body. Thanks Jake.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Nov 2007
at 22:59