Surly Two

Formerly brewed at Surly Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

Serve in Flute

Bottle 389 shared with grimreeser. Pours dark brown with light beige head. Aroma of roast and cranberries. Medium bodied. Nice balanced flavor of dark roast, chocolate. and cranberry. Finish is semi dry and tart, with lots of lingering cranberry. Interesting and unique. Chad tells me its better on tap.

Pours like mudd or meltd chocolate mix very murky huge rocky tan head. Big bourbon oak and vanilla notes, mostly barreling in the aroma some light tart fruits come through but only a little here. Full well coated pal. Tart fruits that I first thoguht were raspberry from the sweetness but I guess are cranberries. Reminds me of sour brown after that. a light vanilla comes through some good oak dryness. Notes of bourbon in the finish and a good amount of acidity. Very nice beer.

Bottle sampled at RBSG ’08. Pours with a dark brown body topped by a medium thick, tan head with a good amount of lacing. It’s sweet yet slightly tart and fruity with a little underlying funk. Medium bodied and dry.

22, capped and waxed. Thanks, Yonkers65! Opaque and very dark brown, tan head. Semi-sweet cherry (or actually cranberry) nose. Chocolate-covered cranberry/raisin taste.

Bottle at RBSG grand tasting. Thanks to Toncatcher who brought this. Pours dark brown with a good tan head. The aroma was rich with raisins, berries and roasted malts. The taste is slightly sour with cherries and raspberries. The mouthfeel is full and malty. The finish is long and slightly sour with lingering red fruits. Overall: I almost turned down tasting this one because i thought that I had previously rated it, I’m glad that I tried it. Wow 18 beers sampled so far at RBSG and every one a winner.

Bottle from Toncatcher @ RBSG Grand Tasting. Pours black with a tan ring. Nose is tart with cranberries. Taste is sweet and big and nice overall.

Courtesy of tpd975. Pours deep dark brackish brown with thin tan head. The aroma is roasty dark malts and chocolate blending into notes of cranberries, ripe strawberries and other assorted fruits. Pleasing mild mix of aromas. The taste starts with a quick pulse of dark malts to chocolate malts to thick sticky malt sweetness and turns quickly toward somewhat unripe fruit tartness. This fruit tartness persists and rides all the way to the finish with notes of dark, sweet and chocolate malts showing up from time to time and growing some into the finish.

22, capped and waxed. Thanks, Yonkers65! Black, opaque. Dense tan head. Slightly soured nose. Rich sweet chocolate there, too. Medium body, a little chalky. Sweet and sour together. Mild finish. Good but not exceptionally dimensional or forward.