That’s right, a plan is in the works from our boys at Surly to begin bottling Smoke, [edit: with more than 4000 bottles] ending up on liquor store shelves. I guess that new bottler is getting quite a work out!
Nic Skrade at Uptown Tattoo did the art work, Al McCarty of Blue Nile fame wrote the text, but final label approval is pending from the, er, good folks at the TTB. So….release date TBA.
More details as they roll in…but really, what else do you need to know?!
Cool. I love rauch/smoke beers. This could be an actual rauchbier, as its a lager. The smoke aspect seems to vary a good bit from the times I have had it. Sometimes I think its way smokey, while other times I could barely detect any hint of smoke.
Would any of you think it was ironic if I were to say: Woot! 😉
What’s the bottle run on this? Will it be hard to get?
More than 4000, just updated the post 🙂
So it shouldn’t be extremely hard to get?
Easier then Darkness anyway, only 2500 of those went out.
Yeah, but didn’t most of those go to one store in Brooklyn Park?
The Haskell’s in White Bear had two cases, if that’s any help at all. 🙂
Im not sure exactly how many went to BC liquors. No matter the case, this should be easier to get.
How about that, I was just searching the Surly website today, to see if they are releasing bottles of Smoke, and was disappointed to see that is kegs only.
Speakling of Smoke, how about a “where’s Smoke” post so people can find it @ bars? I’ll start:
Cafe 28
Common Roots
Brasa St. Paul (not sure if still there)
Damn good beer, and it’ll be nice to have a couple of bottles around.
Just had 2 glasses of Smoke with Fischer’s Farm Pork in Adobo at Cafe Twenty-Eight. Awesome pairing. I highly recommend it.
Add Blue Nile to the list (where I thought it’d be cool to cut’n’paste my label copy onto the tap menu, until I read it and the irony revealed itself).
I am really impressive with your post.
It is so special.
It is the most interesting post I have read !
For anyone else looking to find Smoke on tap: Grumpy’s on Washington has it as well, just had some yesterday.
As the risk of being called out for loving Surly – I can’t wait.
How do we get this in San Francisco? I miss Surly since I moved here.
I had it on Saturday (late morning) at Acadia Cafe on the west bank. I thought that it was decent if not subdued for the usually over-the-top Surly offerings. I recently had a Schlenkerla Weizen (bottled) and was burping smoke all day! I could hardly taste the smoked malt in the Surly.
Schlenkerla Urbock is one of my fav. beers of all time. Ive only had the 09 Smoke at D day, and I thought it was way more smokey then last years batch. Ill have to try it on tap somewhere.
The subtle smoke is what I like about this beer. I hate overly smokey beers, I actually dumped 1.5 bottles of Furthermores Three Feet Deep.
I like subtle smoke too. Just didn’t expect it from Surly!
Acadia serves it up pretty damn cold (others do too). Need to give it about 15-20 minutes to warm (bar staff even were recommending it when I stopped by for Darkness). Didn’t have much in the way of a smoked flavor at the release party at Brasa but I’ve had it a couple times since (several at Cafe Twenty-Eight) and the smoked flavor has come out a lot more.
there’s the trusted had-cupping method (says someone also guilty of serving it too cold)
“hand-cupping.”…hand.
I do a lot of hand cupping to warm my glasses. Maybe it’s time to invest in the 20 pairs of hand warmers for $15.
http://dealnews.com/lw/artclick.html?2,334061,1073935
Lately, I’ve been warming glasses with hot water from the coffee machine…if I have time to walk over there and back.