Can you say honey?  White ash? Belgian yeast? I say Surly 3!

From the Surly Brewer’s Blog:

Ok! now that 16Grit is gone what’s next?

Surly Mild will be released Jan 19th, look for it at your local. Expect a light bodied, low alcohol brown ale with flavors of lightly sweetened biscuits,tobacco and a dry finish.
26IBU
4%abv

Surly Three is our anniversary beer. Try it first at Winterfest!(Feb 6). Look for it DRAFT only the week of Feb 9. Brewed with 50% Honey and 50% German Dark Munich malt, fermented with a Belgian yeast strain and aged on toasted White Ash.
Lots of honey aroma intertwined with rich caramel-cracker flavors, the Ash adds a cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla aroma and a dry finish. Smells like bourbon to me.
16IBU
10%abv

Your favorite morning coffee substitute will be hitting shelves soon….From the good folks at beernews.org:

(Brooklyn Center, MN) – With the impending end to the growler fun at Surly Brewing, it would seem fit that the brewery would find another way to re-route some of that beer to the consumer, probably through more draft availability. But THIS is a pleasant surprise. The brewery with virtually straight A’s on Beer Advocate is poised to add another beer to its canned line-up.

First the good news: Surly is brewing a limited batch double IPA (DIPA) at the end of the year and selling growlers of it. The bad news: as many folks anticipated, as of January 1, 2009, Surly will no longer be able to sell growlers.

A Farewell to Growlers

Nov 17, 2008

Per MN State Law (340A.301), Surly Brewing will not be able to get a license to sell growlers in 2009. In 2008, we have sold over 3500 barrels of beer. The cut-off limit for getting that off-sale license is 3500 barrels. So, no more growlers, no more Darkness Day, and no more SurlyFest.
Here is the plan for wrapping up growler sales in 2008. The last week of December we will be selling growlers of a new beer we brewed specifically for this farewell to growlers. The beer is a DIPA, double IPA. We do not have enough growlers left for you to purchase, so we came up with a new idea.
Bring in your empty growler and we will clean it and then fill your growler directly from the brite beer tank in the back. We will be selling these growlers for $17 each and here are the hours we will be filling:

December 27th,  Saturday noon-4:00
December 29th, Monday 10:00-6:00
December 30th, Tuesday 10:00-6:00
December 31st, Wednesday 10:00-4:00
We have brewed 30 bbls of this beer. If we run out, we will not have any more to sell.

-All growlers must be returned by December 31st if you wish to get your $3 deposit back.