In case you haven’t checked Twitter, Facebook or your favorite beer forum in a couple days, Surly recently announced that bottles of their long-awaited fifth anniversary beer FIVE will be released Monday August 22, with the release party on Monday, August 29 at the Republic.
When I had Five at the release party at Republic is wasn’t anything like I remember Pentagram being. Having it yesterday at Muddy Waters it was like a complete different beer from what I had at Republic. Much more like Pentagram. Plenty of sour dark cherries, oak notes, and funk. Maybe it was the proper glassware at Muddy Waters or the environment but it was 100x better there.