Surly Furious

Brewed by Surly Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

I live in Chicago and I might very well drive to Minnesota just to stock up on Furious. This is hands-down my favorite beer of 2011.

from a sample kindly provided to us at Bodega: Divine! Head and lace that is out of control!!!! perfectly constructed; hearty, exquisitly balance between extreme hops and malt, and drinkability. Slap my bad azzz down. sum goood suds here. wish we could get it on draft like the dales PA

Thanks to oakbluff for this gem! Surly Furious 16 oz can Moderate pour in a shaker Recent brewing, enjoyed 07/07. Poured a copper brown with a large rocky fully lasting head. Smelt of strong pine, resin, spruce and the whole forest of strong hops, pineapple cake, grapefruit, some toasted grain. Taste was upfront strong bitter piney hops with a moderate sweet toasty malt backbone followed by a harsh bitter resin hops and more of the hops backbone on a lingering resin hops finish. Palate was medium bodied, oily, lively carbonated, and strongly astringent. Overall, this is just awesome. Hops galore with a nice malt backbone. Perfect balance. Perfect everything really. Should almost be perfect, but I let my Steel Reserve drinking friend have a sip and he recoiled in disgust. "Too bitter, man! ", he said. So thanks to ballplayin’ Jordan and his Steelies it doesn’t get a perfect score. I suppose it’s a little harsh if you’re not used to it. True, it’s really harsh and bitter for an IPA. Maybe over the top for some people, but for an experienced hophead this is a nice little treasure.

This beer is absolutely bursting with hoppy aroma and flavor. The moment you open the can it gives off such a resiny citrus hop aroma. It pours into the glass a dark amber to copper color with a nice creamy head that appears to lose nothing from the brewers’ beloved canning method. The taste, oh the taste! This packs as much flavor as many of the DIPAs that I have tried. It is so citrusy, piney, and bitter.

UPDATED: OCT 8, 2009 I love the IPAs with the heavy citrus hops aroma and the taste to match. This is my favorite beer of the year so far.

This beer is a definite staple and theres always at least a 4 pack in my mini fridge. If you like hops and bitterness this is the beer for you.

This beer is the premier example of a west coast ipa not from the west coast. Insanely drinkable with lots of flavor and character.

Huge cloud of massive pine and citrus hop aroma, enormous proportions, I’m talking Dreadnaught enormity,it stays that big for a long time, you can detect some of that Scottish carmel malt, but this is all about the hops, all that hop aroma delivers what it promises when it comes to taste, full rich citrus and pine taste, and absolutely superb finishing bitterness, sweet caramel shows up in little pockets,just medium bodied enough not to be confused with an Imperial,all these flavors cease to fade, at the end the huge hop assault does dry the tongue. Absoutely stunning in all respects virtually the perfect IPA,and all this from A CAN. An absolute drop everything and go on a seek and find mission for any hophead