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Surly Bitter Brewer

Surly Bitter Brewer

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A Premium Bitter/ESB brewed by
Surly Brewing Company

Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

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1383.59/5.03.58/5.0Special4.2%96.6English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Brewed with lots of Golden Promise and Pale Ale malts with a touch of Oats and light hazy gold in color. Ultra crisp bitterness from Warrior hops, with Glacier hops adding the peach,orange and apricot aroma. We dry-hopped this one because...we like hops.

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 Elizavyeta (104), Minnesota, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20

Jun 21, 2008  
A tart and peachy aroma with a slightly bitter, hoppy note. Body is a stunningly cloudy orange with a frothy white head. Overall flavor, while predominantly hops and malt is quite light and refreshing - iced tea, cinnamon, and oatmeal- ending with a brief and amusing note of ginger. Obviously a great sipping beer, I think it would be particularly well-suited with vinegary Kansas City-style BBQ.

 golubj (1037), Redwood City, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Can, thanks to kosko20. Amber pour, some white head. Aroma is lightly toasted grainy malt, and grass. Slightly sweet and fruity malt flavor, some more of the toasted grain, and grassy / earthy hops. Lightly bitter finish. Decent beer.


 DougShoemaker (2614), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 2, 2008  
Aroma is orange with some underlying malt, amber, pours a small custard head. Softer flavour of orange and malt than the nose suggested. Light bodied, well balanced. Very good example. Thanks Eric from Biergotter.


 fonefan (4888), Ulfborg, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 2, 2008  
Can 50cl. @ chris_o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008.
Clear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (020808)


Two_Dudes (29), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/54/103/59/20
Oct 1, 2008  
Not sure how to take this one. Thin body with hops in the forefront. But, the hops seemed...off somehow. Had this right after a can of Furious, so I am not sure how anything could have held up.


 Drnk_McDermott (1565), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Sep 24, 2008  
16 oz. can, gotta love that. Pours a healthy head over a bright orange beer, with a few active columns of bubbles. Nice apricot and grass hop smell. Foam settles to a rocky head as I write this. Certainly the hoppiest tasting ESB I’ve found in my relatively few tastes of this style. A more grassy taste of fresh hops in the front of the tongue, basic bitterness in the back. Yet the malt base seems to me a little lacking. Sure, that’s partly due to its lower alcohol, but it kind of turns watery and metallic. A few other raters noted this, I see, and put it down to being served too cold, and I did pull this from the fridge. I can’t bring myself to rate this too highly for now, but I have more I can try under different conditions.



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