Bender
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.10
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This beer is an amalgamation of styles; brown/porter/APA. Five distinct malts, including two from Belgium, give this beer added complexity and depth. We also add oatmeal to this beer to give it a smooth texture not usually associated with this type of beer. We add large amounts of American finishing hops to give Bender a citrus hop aroma because... we like hops. This is a session beer weighing in around 5% alcohol and 25 IBUs. Grab one today, we think you will want another!
Admin Note: Discontinued in 2019, but occasionally turns up on draft.
Admin Note: Discontinued in 2019, but occasionally turns up on draft.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate, hop, caramel. Flavour is coffee, hop, roasted, caramel, chocolate. OK beer, but nothing more.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2008
at 12:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, thx to akevitt. I had some doubts how to rate this one, as it was surely infected or way past BB-date. No date on the can though. I ended up trying to ignore the sourish aromas and flavors and I hope I will get a new chance some day. It poured a clear, dark brown with a beige to tan head. The aroma had chocolate, lots of fruity hops, a little smoked hint and some sourness. Chocolate, some sourness, malt and caramel in the flavor, leading to a quite bitter finish with some chocolate. Full body. Even though it was gone bad in a way, it was still a good beer, but I think a can in this condition would have been way too much to finish on my own. (080301)
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2008
at 14:14
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bright reddish-brown with a bubbly head. The aroma is chocolatey, lightly phenolic. The body is thin and the palate muddled and disjointed with underdeveloped cocoa powder notes, nut shells and a distinct lack of residual sugars.
Tried
on 22 Mar 2008
at 17:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can, 5.1%. Thanks, yespr. Roasted and creamy aroma. Very dark brown colour, seems clear. Unstable tan head. Thin to medium mouthfeel, but with a little creamy carbonation. Roasted flavour, OK dark malts. Hint of nice, fresh, grassy aroma hops. Low bitterness. Not complex, but nice and drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jan 2008
at 10:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Thin brown head. Deep dark red body with carbonation. Complex tropical fruit hop aroma with smoky chocolatey notes. Dry, yet sweetish, smoky chocolatey malty taste. Dry fruity hop and roasty malt aftertaste lingers for a long time. (0.47l can at Knut Albert’s.)
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2007
at 07:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Above average brown ale mainly because it presents more body and more flavors than most brown ales. The body is a dark brown underneath a small, but fizzy brown head. The aroma is slight, but what is there is malty with roasted grain and a bit of chocolate and very lightly hoppy. The flavor, though, is moderately sweet and lightly bitter and full of malt character raising tastes of caramel, nuts, toast. The finish is citrus hops. Medium body. Lively carbonation.
Tried
on 05 Nov 2007
at 19:44
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Canned. Dark amber colour, small brownish beige head. Aroma is fruits, spices and some hops. Flavour is spices, caramel and some flowery hops.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2007
at 13:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Clear medium brown color with a small, fizzy, mostly diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2007
at 07:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at Chris_o Shindig. Very deep brown/red with beige head. Terrific malts. Really deep, rounded. Tastes stronger. Oxidised port aroma. Good beer, pretty intense. Good hop on end and nice choc.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2007
at 10:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dark chestnut beer with a small off-white head. Malt and dried fruit in the nose. Thin malty flavour with a bitter finish
Tried
on 07 Aug 2007
at 03:53