News and Updates
surly events
May 08, 2008
Firkin Night - May 14th at Sea Salt restaurant located at Minnehaha Falls. We will be tapping a firkin of bitter brewer and a firkin of furious. Pints are only $2! We will tap the firkins around 7:00. Bring the family and see you there.
CynicAle Release Party - join us on the patio at C.C. Club, 2600 Lyndale Ave S, to kick off summer Surly style, with a cynicAle beer! June 2nd is the day - see you there.
Bitter!
May 06, 2008
Bitter Brewer now in cans! We got the cans in from the factory yesterday morning at 6:30. By 3:00 Jim had the cans delivered to a few accounts. I think people are going to like this beer so its going to go fast. Liquor stores will probably run out, but we just decided to brew another batch, so we'll have some into early June!
Surly Tanks and Tours and 4-Years Later
Apr 20, 2008
Todd and I just returned from San Diego, where we attended the Craft Brewers Conference. The trip out there was cool as it is where Todd and I met 4 years ago. At this conference in 2004 I was amazed at the huge varieties of beers being produced and was lucky enough to check out some breweries in the area. Our first night at the conference this year was at Stone Brewing, north of San Diego. It is incredible what they have accomplished and others in the craft brewing world in these last 4 years. Craft beer is still a small part of the beer scene, but it where all the fun is at. Rich Doyle of Harpoon gave the keynote speech and his line was that "America is the best place in the world to drink beer." I agree. An amazing variety of beers is being brewed at American Craft breweries and that will continue. Todd and I even came up with a few new ideas for draft specialties on the cab ride home. Yum.
The tour page is up and running! Tours are now Friday afternoon 6-8. You do need a reservation! The only place to get one is on-line.
Our new tanks arrived last week, right before Todd and I flew out. we managed to get 3 tanks in the building and the other three will be in toworrow. All this means more beer!
Surly News
Apr 03, 2008
Goodness, we have been busy. Let me try and catch you up on a few things.
We got some new kegs in! That's right, we were able to steal a truckload of kegs from a brewery that is called Surly, so all the kegs have our name on them. No no no, I'm kidding, it's not April Fools Day, we actually had someone make them for us.
Our new tanks show up next week! 6 new tanks that will be put into use ASAP. You can see all these new tanks when the tours start, sometime in May. But hold on now, the tours are going to run a little differently from now on. Tours will be Friday evenings and you will need a reservation. How do you get a reservation? Good question, we will have an internet sign-up that folks will be able to reserve 4 spots on. It's not live yet, so don't bother calling and emailing. We should have something up and running next week. One other thing, tours will be limited to about 75 people and you will need a reservation, you can't just show up! Hopefully the smaller tour sizes will allow people to actually ask some questions in a little more intimate setting.
To help us fill our new tanks, we have hired Surly #6 - Jerrod Johnson. He has been brewing out in Portland, OR and is returning to his Midwest roots. When you see him around make sure you say hi.
What else...
Bitter Brewer will be canned this year! The cans are in the works and they will be in the liquor stores sometime this month. I hope. Obviously, since it will be canned, it's gonna be in kegs. Madcappers bar in Stillwater will be kicking off the Bitter Brewer season on April 14th.
This is an April Fools Day Joke. Budweiser to begin distributing Surly Brewing Beer!
Apr 01, 2008
Omar Ansari and Augie Busch 9th, are pleased to announce that Surly Brewing Company will now have its beer distributed nation-wide by AB. "It's a great opportunity for Surly to leverage the vaunted AB distributiuon network and get our beer across the country. We're really really excited not to have enough beer not only for our own market, but markets all over the country!" says a amped up Ansari. St. Louis based AB will be purchasing a majority share of Surly Brewing Company but has no plans to make any changes. "We plan to stay pretty hands-off" says Augie the 9th. "We will only tell Surly what to brew and how to brew it. The cross-mojination potential is great for AB, we look forward to using Surly's great hype machine and gettting fanboys across the country buzzing about AB!"
In related news, Surly Brewing Company announces plans to can Bitter Brewer.
Power to the People!
Mar 17, 2008
Thanks to the crowd at the Happy Gnome's Firkin Fest! Darkness, Tea-Bagged Furious and Oak-Aged Bender took #1, #2 and #3 in the people choice awards. Congrats to Summit and Bells for taking the judges awards. See you next year.
Cask Darkness?#@!#
Mar 12, 2008
That's right, the first ever cask-conditioned Darkness will be poured this Sunday at the Happy Gnome's Firkin Fest. The beer is the 2008 darkness that was brewed 3 weeks ago. We have never poured Darkness from the cask, so it will be interesting to see what this beer tastes like this young.
Oh yeah, Tea-Bagged Furious and Oak-Aged Bendxer also.
A long time Surly
Mar 05, 2008
It has been a bit of time since the last update, what's new you ask... Good question. We have a few events coming up:
March 13th - Semi-Pro screening at New Hope Cinema Grill;
Pizza (all you can eat) and Movie $15
Glass O' Surly (12oz) $3
Pitchers O' Surly (60oz) $12
RSVP to: parties@newhopecinemagrill.com
March 16th - Firkin Fest @ Happy Gnome
call 651.287.2018 for details
March 28th - Grand Re-Opening of Acadia Cafe - Darkness 2006 tapping @ 8:00
There will be special appearances by other brewers during the day. The following day, Acadia will celebrate their reopening with an all-day music jam.
April 2nd - Beer event at Apple Valley Old Chicago
April 5th, 2008 - Gitchee Gumee Beer Festival - Duluth/Superior
April 15th - Beer Dinner @ Happy Gnome
call 651.287.2018 for details
April 25th - Arborfest Beer Festival @ Macalester College
So that's a few of the items. We have also been invited to the Oregon Brewers Festival in Portland July 24-27! Coffee Bender goes to the Northwest!
What else is going on. Well, we continue to work on our expansion project. Our 6 tanks ship this week and we will get tours going again shortly after the tanks show up.
We were pretty pleased that Tea-Bagged Furious won Champion Real Ale of Chicagoland for 2008! Sweet.
Surly Two
Jan 24, 2008
Surly Two will be released in a couple weeks to local bars. We have been slammed here at the brewery with the new construction project. The release of two at the Blue Nile was a sneak peek. We will post here when the beer hits the streets to local bars.
Oh yeah, we filled about 400 750s of two.
| NEXT page |