Surly Coffee Bender

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

Brown with a thin off white head. Aroma is caramel, light coffee, roasty. Taste is caramel, and coffee. Pretty straight forward.

Can from mcbackus. Nose of coffee, malted milk balls, and caramel. Clear dark brown with a medium lightly lacing beige head. Flavor is coffee, with light bitterness and light chocolate.

Very good at doing what it says it will, which is have a very strong coffee component. Pours opaque reddish-brown, very dark, almost black, with a small tan head. Aroma is almost all roasted coffee. Flavor is also very strong on the roasted coffee, but there’s a bit of maltiness detectable and some hoppiness toward the finish. Palate is effervescent, with a very fine but still somewhat aggressive carbonation.

Can from stfun... Shared with wolf. poured into a snifter, light brown in color, small head. Aroma of all coffee beans. Taste is a brown ale with a ton of coffee beans. I am not a coffee fan but this was bad, just a little too much coffee for my liking. Texture was a little on the lite side. Overall not bad... If you like coffee this beer is for you.

on tap at busters on 28th. Pours a very dark brown color with little head. Smells of obvious coffee and smoked wood. The taste is instantly of coffee but has a bitter aftertaste. I was a alittle disapointed with this beer. I enjoy a good bitter beer but this one wasn’t nice on my palate maybe cause it was at the end of a long tasteing menu I will have to give this another try though.

A great inclusion from skinnyguy. Opaque brown color. A nutty and woody aroma as you would expect from a nice brown ale. The coffee comes through nicely in the flavor and mostly in the finish with a bitter roastiness that lasts for a nice long while. A hint of cocoa on the back side too is interesting and unique for the style. A touch of roasted coffee but very faint in the aroma. Well added and subtle coffee flavors.

Can, thanks to tytoanderso. Really nice roasted coffee bean aroma with a hint of nutty malt beneath. Flavor keeps the coffee coming, great dry roastedness, pure coffee goodness, with some sticky fruitiness there as well. This is the first time I’ve had this having hammered into my head that it’s a coffee BROWN ALE, not stout or porter, and having gotten that into my head, I’m quite impressed with the bold, dry, smooth coffee presence.

16 oz can. Pours a cloudy dark brown body with a one inch frothy beige head that left some nice lacing. Very nice clean coffee aroma that mixes great with the dry nutty malt. Throw in the moderate hoppiness and yet get greatness. The flavor is just as well balanced, hard to tell where the coffee stops and the beer begins. Did Starbucks make this? Hoppy cold coffee? Did they make this just for my tastes? Medium bodied with a nice crisp hop bite on the finish with the coffee lingering on even further. I love the subtle light-roast coffee flavor, there’s no astringency or burnt flavors at all. I hope they keep making this, I love it.