Surly Furious

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

(Can) Pours a mahogany body with a small white head. Aroma of pine, grapefruit, and caramel. Flavor of hops and toasted malt with a bitter finish. Big thanks Mark!

Tasted from can (thanks Josh!). Poured a dark and cloudy orange / amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of pine, citrus, and some caramel. Tastes of pine, light citrus and caramel. I like the hoppiness in this one. It also had a lighter sweet balance to the bitterness.

16oz can-pours a foamy light tan head and red/amber color. Aroma is citrus/pine hops, medium malt. Taste is citrus/pine hops –some bitterness, secondary medium malt-caramel/brown sugar but not quite balanced. Further in and with food balance is better. Hops are dry and some spicing comes out. OK carbonation.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 2     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 1   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 2
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 1   Bread : XX   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Hay : XX   Toasty : 2   Caramel : 2   Nuts : XX   Honey : XX   Cereals : 1   Grainy : 2
Hops : 4   Noble(1)->American(5) : 5   Leafy : 3   Spicy : XX   Floral : 4   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : 4   Orange : 3   Herbal : XX   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : 3  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : 2   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 4   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 1   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : 2   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : 2   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Strongly bitter, leafy, citrusy and straightforward IPA in the classic American style, but with a solid malt backbone.

Can at Blackfriars at my leaving Glasgow night and at chris_o’s pre GBBF TASTING!!!!!!! Aroma is exactly what i want from the american hop resin and caramalt. Taste is similar, super hoppy, just america hop goodness.

Can... Clear yellow ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Aroma of pine, honey, subtle grass and fuzzy fruit. Definitely leans on the bitter side of balance. Moderate, toffee sweetness; heavy grapefruit bitterness. Medium to full-bodied with a callous mouthfeel and mild carbonation. Lengthy, bitter, dry finish. Thanks to my friend, robertsreality, for sending this one my way!

16 oz can: Pours a transparent copper bronze with a large pillowy light tan head that leaves a clingy lace behind as it subsides. Aroma boasts a good amount of piny citrusy hops and lightly toasted crystal malts. Body starts with a nice malty sweetness and good fresh bittering grapefruity hoppy balance toward a drier earthy bitter finish. A nice IPA.

Initially huge cream-yellow head, dwindling rapidly even when fed by well-carbonated, darker red-brown beer. Beautiful grapey hops nose, truly superbly aromatic, if a tad unidimensional. Exotic fruit as lychee, dry green sultana’s, and caramelised puff pastry. Dry, wry taste totally dominated by hopoils and α-acids. Hopdryness is such that a dry-out effect is realised on the lingual lowerfront. There’s some caramel malts underneath, but not enough. First of a sip seems well-bodied, but the finish is even thin in texture. Too bad about the unidimensionality. The nose is superb in its promise, the finish is very... American.