Surly Bitter Brewer

Brewed by Surly Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

Can (love it!) courtesy of Guerde. Pours a clear amber with one finger off-white head and nice lacing. Nose is mild floral and bitter hops with some bready malts. Taste is mild malt with some citrus before a nice dry bitter finish. Medium mouth feel. Good beer – thanks Andy!

Can. Dark orange pour with no head. Aroma of marmalade, citrusy and herbal hops. Similar flavor with a slight sourness. Also, just a hint of smokiness in the finish. Malty and carbonated mouthfeel. Very nice, interesting beer.

DFW Tasting 6/8/08 Thanks to Bu11zeye for sharing! Aroma is grassy and citrus. The flavor falls short of this but this is a great session beer! Cheers!

Smells of hops, citrus, grass, much like open a bag of fresh hops. Looks is light amber with a decent head. Pineapple, fruits, pine, and others citus in the taste with a nice light bitterness that goes down easy.

Pours like a hazy iced tea with a decent off-white head that shows good retention and lacing. Smells a little like iced tea too with leafy hops and some spices on top of the malt background. Definitely some citrus and pine hops with lots of grassy scents in there. Taste also has pine and citrus hops, mainly grass and leaves. Definitely get oranges, grapefruits and lemon zest in the taste. The hops were a bit tart and balanced out well with the sweetness of the caramel malts. Mouthfeel is medium and very (you guessed it) bitter with strong carbonation. This is definitely a drinkable brew despite the bitter connotations and taste. It’s like a nice iced tea on a summer afternoon.

Sweet bonus from OSLO, thanks again buddy.

Pours clear deep gold with white head. It as a full aroma of crystal malts, floral perfume, sweet sugary strawberries and a bit of orange juice. The taste is much the same as the nose with floral hop bitterness then some crystal malt sweetness moving into sweet citrus hop notes. Nice brew that doesn’t seem to be a bitter due to its bold flavors that don’t burst the boundaries of the style by too much.

Thanks to puzzl for the can. Pale amber beer with a thick white head. Aroma is a little bit woody and lightly fruity. A bit of diacetyl. Some soft caramel sweetness, but the beer itself is quite thin-bodied. As it warms some nice apricot fruitiness and light earthy hoppiness comes to the fore. Lightly honeyish as well. Unusual flavour on the back that reminds me of sandalwood and cologne. This is a strange brew.

Thanks to joey for shairng. Pours amber with a small white head. Aroma is up from fruit and a bit of hops. Flavor is mainly tea, some fruit an a bit of hop citrus comes through as well. Finishes watery.