maniac (11822) reviewed Cynic from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from MGM Liquors in Woodbury, MN at the 8th Richmond Gathering on 06/06/2009. Mostly clear golden body with a medium rocky white head. Floral and spicy aroma. Big spicy flavor, some yeastiness, and a bit of floral hop notes. Medium body with moderately high carbonation. 6/2/7/4/15 - 3.4 06/26/2007: On tap at the RBSG 2007 Surly Tour. Clear golden body with a medium creamy white head. Spicy fruity aroma. Dry floral bitter flavor fading into spicy caramel. 8/2/7/3/15 - 3.5
maniac (11822) reviewed One from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at the RBSG 2007 Surly Tour - Special Tasting. Clear mohogany body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet malty aroma with a fruity overtone. Sugary sweet raisin and molassas flavor. Probably should be classified as a doppelbock.
maniac (11822) reviewed Darkness from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle courtesy of brewengineer on 04/17/2010 at the 11th Richmond RateBeer Gathering. Dark black body with a small frothy light brown head. Big hoppy and molasses aroma with lots of caramel and some light coffee. Sweet caramel, molassas and rum soaked fruit flavor with lots of hops. 9/5/8/4/17 06/26/2007 - On tap at the RBSG 2007 Surly Tour - Special Tasting. Dark balck body with ruby tinting and a large creamy brown head. Sweet chocolate, molassas, caramel, cocoa and rum soaked fruit aroma. Thick creamy mouthfreel. Sweet chocolate, roasted malt, ccaramel and rum soaked fruit flavors. Long lasting chocolate bitter ending. 9/5/9/4/18 - 4.5
maniac (11822) reviewed Coffee Bender from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the RBSG 2007 Surly Tour. Slightly hazy dark cherry black body with a small creamy light brown head. Sweet coffe and roasted malt aroma. Sweet coffe, roasted malt flavor with a hint of chocolate.
maniac (11822) reviewed Furious from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can from Woodbury, MN on 11/05/2009. Clear copper amber body with a medium foamy off-white head. Sweet floral and citrus hop aroma with a caramel background. Sweet floral, citrus and light resiny hop flavor on a caramel background. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. 8/4/8/3/16 - 3.9 On cask at The Happy Gnome during the RBSG 2007 Pub Crawl. Clear amber body with a small frothy white head. Sweet citrus hops aroma. Sweet citrus hops flavor with some floral hops and caramel. 7/4/8/3/15 - 3.7
maniac (11822) reviewed Bitter Brewer from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
On cask at The Happy Gnome during the RBSG 2007 Pub Crawl. Cloudy orange-amber body with no head. Very sweet huge grapefruit aroma. Very gentle grapefruit flavor with some light lemon in the ending. Excellent easy drinker.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Cynic from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can courtesy of Stine: Poured a medium amber color ale with a big foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of light pepper, medium sweet malt and some ester and yeasty notes. Sharp note of pepper are noticeable as well as some medium toffee sweet malt and a nice yeasty finish. Body is quite full with some medium filtration and some good carbonation. This beer was well done and I am getting to be more and more impress by the quality of the beers brewed by this brewer.
JK (8181) reviewed Bitter Brewer from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On cask. Actually a bad beer from surly. Completely cloudy, and very sour. The sourness is not from infection but grapefruit flavor. Lightly bitter with some fruit. 3/3/2/1/5 -------Tasted from a can May, 2008. Much better. Fairly dry and very drinkable but loaded with hops. The only thing ESB about it is the name, as it is much too intense to fit in that style. Good palate now and some fruity hops. Score raised considerably.
yespr (55501) reviewed Darkness from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
From tap, apparently the last keg available, put on at McKenzies Minneapolis. Huge thanks to hellomynameis for letting me know about this being on! Pours black with a brown rim, thick creamy brown head which looks like lovely chocolate cream. Aroma is a complex sweet coffee, chocolate and liqourice blend, slight molasses note. Thick mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet, complex blend of liqourice and chocolate. A distinct fruity note that is non-citric, seems like peach to me. Finish is a long mellow sweet blend of the chocolate and coffee notes hitting a wonderfull bitterness. You keep tasting the chocolate on your lips and the bitterness on you tongue. Very lovely and perfectly balanced.
RBSG Second sample at the brewery didn’t have th peach note and was more hoppy and fresh compared to the McKenzies tapped version.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Furious from Surly Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Big thanks to Quake1028 for binging this one along. I’ve been looking forward to trying it.
Pours a murky orange to copper color with off white head out of a 16oz can. Huge hop aroma of pine hop bitterness. It is simply a firm slap in the nose of citrus hops. The flavor is just like the aroma with just huge pine hop bitterness and not nearly as big grapefruit hop bitterness too. I can just sense a sweet maltiness way way in the back of the big pile of hops. Very nice true hop monster of a beer.