Surly Bender

Brewed by Surly Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

(on can, thanks Yngwie and Gunnfryd) Dark, reddishbrown. Sweet rotten mashy sent, very unplesant. Some chocolate in there, but mostly just sourness and rotten peas. A bad batch like this should have been stopped by the brewery.

Can. Clear red-brown colour wth a small rather short lasting head. Choco, coffee bit sour aroma. The flavour is roasty and sour with choco.

Can courtesy of tytoanderso. Pours a nice reddish brown with a bubbly 1 finger head. Aroma of malt, roasted nuts and vanilla. Nice medium bodied mouthfeel with flavors of caramel, malt, nuts, chocolate and rasins. This is a really nice brown ale. Viva Surly!

Can @ thewolf tasting.
[thank you, Yngwie/Gunnfryd]
Pours a reddish amber. Nice creamy beige head. Aroma is light chocolate with an oxidated and citric sour edge. Flavour is v ery sour, very infected... pheeuwww...

Perfect pour into a nonic. Deep opaque brown with a perfect crest of tan foam. Gobs of lacing on the glass, and pretty nice retention. Great sweet malt aroma with a dose of nuttiness and a hint of hops. Malt flavors up front with toasty caramel and a bit of chocolate, then nutty/oaty notes wash through, leaving a mild hoppy finish. This would make for an incredible session beer if I had more than one here in California. Really smooth in body and taste.

Can from Tyler! Brown/amber color. Good head, and nice lacing. Smell is malt and some sweet hops. Taste is the same. Caramel gives it a sweet after taste. Smooth. Meduim texture. Top 3 in the brown ale catagory. Really good beer!

Pours a hazy brown - darker than most brown ales I have tried. A bit of caramel in the nose. Nice malty taste. Some nuts in the middle and just a bit of citrus in there somewhere. Very smooth and drinkable. Maybe my favorite brown ale.

Pours a nice dark brown with a tan head. The aroma is thick with malt, vanilla, toffee and oatmeal. The flavor is very nicely balanced with a good amount of malt sweetness, coupled with lots of vanilla and a very pronounced velvety oatmeal flavor. That oatmeal smoothness carries over very nicely to the palate, lending the brew a very smooth mouthfeel. Overall another great brew from Surly.