Surly SurlyFest

Brewed by Surly Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota USA

Tap pour was clear amber gold color with a very light cream head. Aroma is of biscuits,caramel, and floral hops are very present. Taste is caramel and bread, with a hint of spice and bitterness from the hops. Surlyfest pushes the Oktoberfest/Marzen style to the extreme in a good way.

Can from allen dodd - thanks once more! He thinks this is 2008. Pours clear copper with a frothy beige head. Aromas of mild caramel and noble hops. Near medium body with fairly mild carbonation. Flavor is a bit complex; the rye is definitely noticeable. After the rye gets out of the way, piney hop pops up. Pretty tasty beer.

Pint can courtesy of Maximum12 (Cory, Beeradvocate) from our fantasy baseball league, Thanks! Nice Tall can, love the design. Poured an amber orange with lots of bubbly head, some stayed. Aroma jumps out at you, with a hoppy and malty scent. The taste is earthy, rye, grainy, malty, and a nice hoppy piney taste, medium body. This has got to be one of the best oktoberfet beers I’ve had.

TAP: clear gold pour, no head. Very mild earthy nose, taste is mild hop, pine, and some funk. Just okay.

Pint can courtesy of Skyview. Pours clear amber with an initial 2 finger beige head that faded fast. The nose is earthy hops, rye bread and malt. The taste is light fruit, rye, toasted malt and some citrusy hops in the finish. Nice little Marzen in a can – thanks Bob!

2009 Can - Thanks Guerde! Pours coppery orange with a larger beige head...aroma is bready malt, floral hops, caramel and slight spice...flavour is similar, nicely bitter, nutty, dry malt...lingering dry malt and caramel...tasty...

16 oz can courtesy of a trade from tytoanderso. Thanks a bunch, Tyler! Pours a near transparent orangey fiery amber, well carbonated, with a decent bright white head that dies to a decent film, light lacing. Aromas are a well hopped malty brew, english malts, biscuity and caramel, bready, with light spice, and a pretty good floral hopping. Not bad, different. Malt profile takes on a good Oktoberfest feel, bready, biscuity, caramel, spicey with a good green hop feel, fairly floral and grassy, this works well. Spice takes a backseat to hops, but the malty bready appeal is there, spice is sufficient and not over the top. Lighter on the palate, with good bittering hop and a touch of mellow smokey rye towards the back end. Quite tasty, a bit underbodied but very sessionable. This is a very good beer, a beer I could drink often. Bready and earthy hoppiness are the focals, spice and caramel/toffee fall behind the front row but are still good elements.

1 pint can courtesy of tytoanderso. Pours a translucent copper color with a small off-white head that rapidly dissipates to nothing. The aroma is soft with toffee malts and caramel. The flavor is that of a malty lager with rye, barley, biscuit and earthy hops. The palate is silky smooth with good carbonation. The finish is medium in duration with caramel malts. Overall: A tasty session-able lager.