Hello Surly Nation,
A few quick notes about what’s up.
#1 – January 16th @ The Happy Gnome – debut of Surly Mild, our sessionable
Mild Ale.
#2 – January 23rd @ Acadia Café – debut of two, our 2nd anniversary ale.
Remember Acadia Café has moved to Riverside and Cedar in Minneapolis
#3 – January 30th @ Common Roots Café – coffee bender
#4 – We have a photo competition running; winner receives a Surly Prize Pack
that includes a bottle of Darkness and a Surly Jacket! Send us your Surly
pictures. We will announce the winner at the debut of Surly Mild.
#5 – We donated 6 bottles of Darkness to EnergyCents, a local charity that
helps keep the power on; over $1400 was raised by auctioning off the bottles
on Ebay!
#6 – No tours until Spring. We are cutting out 3000 square feet of the
brewery so we can add more tanks.
#7 – Beer prices are going up. Sorry everybody, but barley and hops have
both increased over 50% since we started 2 years ago.
#8 – The Surly Second Anniversary dinner is approaching soon, check the
web-site for details because it will sell out fast. The date is February
11th, I’m not saying where, tickets are not yet for sale.
#9 – Rumors are floating around about a new canned seasonal… more on that
soon. (No, it is not Darkness)
#10 – We will have some two bottled up in 750s for sale at the brewery. No
date on that yet.See you drinking,
Omar
Author: TruthBrew
Owner of TruthBrew, LLC.
Partner in the late Grailworks Importing.
Not to miss… Uerige Sticke Altbier cask at Bulldog NE this Wednesday.
Here’s one not to miss for import beer fans…. Uerige Sticke Altbier on cask this Wednesday early evening at The Bulldog NE.
BULLDOG NE & “Brad The Beerguy” present
Germany’s UERIGE Brewery of Dusseldorf :
The 1st German Authentic Cask in Minnesota History!
Beer : Traditional Sticke Alt
**** Michael Jackson’s Pocket Guide to Beer, p 36:
“UERIGE …is the most assertive, complex and characterful of the Alts” Düsseldorfer Altbier is one of Germany’s great beer styles. Uerige Alt is in my view the finest example of the style, and one of Germany’s truly great beers. I love it for its big, spicy hop aroma; its firm, malty, middle; and its confidently dry, appetising, finish. No short cuts, no compromises: a beer that punches it weight. Zum Uerige Sticke beautifully retains this balance. It is smooth, complex, elegant and a wonderful aperitif. A generous beer, with a touch of luxury. This beer is brewed with more malt, hops and is much richer than UERIGE Alt. Behind the massive but elegant aroma are hidden 6.5% abv. The unusual name derives from olden days, when the guests would whisper (‘stickum’ being a dialect term for whispering)the master brewer must have been a little too generous when weighing out the ingredients.
Great Waters beer updates
Looks like Great Waters has there current list of beers up on their website as of 12/12.
Their seasonals include 3 cask beers, Old Bastard old ale, Queen of the Snow’s Special Bitter, Tesla’s Coil IPA and one pushed beer, a hoppy wheat beer dubbed Decemberfest. Looks like there have a couple lighter and a couple stronger beers coming soon as well.
Anyone tried these yet?
Duvel USA beer promo at The Bulldog Lyndale next Tuesday Dec 4th
While it doesn’t go with the MNBeer “drink only MN beer” mantra, this was too good to not pass along…
Tuesday December 4th 6 pm – close. The Bulldog Lyndale. 1/2 off all Duvel USA beers. That includes Duvel, Rodenbach, Maredsous & Brewery Ommegang. Tom Gardner from Duvel USA will be in attendance. Food specials will also be available. That means $3.50 Duvel and $2.50 Hennepins, not to mention the price on all the other Duvel products. The only thing not enclosed is a cab service phone number. Enjoy!
More draft at The Muddy Pig, Fat Tire kegs, and Utopias.
Apparently 32 draft lines aren’t quite enough, because The Muddy Pig just added another 16, bringing their total to 48. Some notable beers pouring are Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence Stout, Surly Darkness, Liefmans Frambozen, SN Harvest, Duchesse de Bourgogne, and so on….
Fat Tire will make it’s first Twin Cities draft appearance starting Monday.
For those into expensive extreme beer, on November 1st Sam Adams released their 2007 vintage Utopias, which is a whopping 25.6% abv. Only 12,000 numbered, collectible bottles were released worldwide. Expect to see limited numbers of bottles in the Twin Cities metro in time for the holidays retailing for somewhere around $130.