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Get Surly!
February 1, 2013
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Greetings! New Canning Line We're doing all we can to make as much beer as possible at our current brewery. We've installed more brewing equipment and now we're installing a new canning line to get more beer out the door, faster. Our head brewer Todd Haug went all the way to the Comac Canning and Bottling Plant factory in Bergamo, Northern Italy last week to test out the line for himself. 
The new canning line is double the speed of our existing line, it can fill more than 3,000 cans an hour and it'll even load the cans from the pallet for us. The system will be online in a month or so, and it will eventually move to our Destination Brewery. If you want to check it out, make sure to try and get yourself on the next available Surly Brewery Tour. |
SGAD Nation  Thanks to all of 2012's Surly Gives A Damn volunteers
who came out last week for the SGAD Appreciation Event. Hundreds of Damn-Giving Do-Gooders packed out the brewery and we made sure there was plenty of Surly on tap to show our appreciation. Congrats to Todd Couture for picking up the Volunteer of the Year award. There's still a lot to give a Damn about this year, and we're looking for 50 volunteers to help pack and sort food at the Emergency Foodshelf Network on Thursday, March 21. Sign-up opens on Thursday, March 7 on the SGAD webpage. |
Get Mild It's time for the first 2013 Surly seasonal beer - we're releasing Surly Mild at Blue Nile Restaurant & Lounge in Minneapolis on Monday, February 4, from 6pm - 10pm. Mild's our English-style Mild Ale brewed with pale, brown, crystal and aromatic malts and flaked oats. This one's a low alcohol beer at 3.8% ABV, so it's "sessionable". There will be pints of Mild for $5, and 4 x 4 oz. pours of any Surly beer on tap for $8 at the release party. Additional beers on tap will include: Darkness, Smoke, SYX, Abrasive, Damien, Fiery Hell, Furious, Bender and Cynic. |
| Warmin' Up For Winterfest... We're going to be in St. Paul tonight for the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild 12th Annual Winterfest. This one's a classy affair at the Minnesota History Center, so we're bringing our best: we'll be pouring Darkness, Smoke, SYX, Abrasive, Fiery Hell, Brett Liquor IPA, Damien, and casks of Furious, Bender, Darkness, Mild and Cynic... | |
...and Pentagram Because it's Winterfest, we're going to be pouring something special. We'll be serving our new seasonal, Pentagram. It's a 100 percent Brettanomyces Dark Ale aged in red wine barrels. It has flavors of sour cherry, tobacco, oak and a classic 'Brett' barnyard funk balanced by dark Munich malt chewiness. We'll be bottling Pentagram soon, so look out for a release date later in February 2013. | |
| Overrated News This week, artwork for our upcoming canned West Coast IPA, Overrated, was leaked on the Internet. The unicorn-themed can art (below) was what we really wanted for Overrated but the Feds denied our artistic vision. They said it was too appealing to underage drinking, as if adults can't be into unicorns and rainbows?! Pfft. It's a little over the top, that's the joke...  |
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| Surly on the Loppet Trail We're a sponsor of the 2013 City of Lakes Loppet Ski Festival and we're going to be serving Surly at TWO Loppet beer gardens this weekend to celebrate. The Loppet kicks off tomorrow, Saturday, February 2 and runs until Sunday, February 3. We're going to be at the Tin Fish Surly Beer Garden on Saturday from noon to 6pm and Surly Beer Garden at the Calhoun Square Vendor Village on Saturday from noon to 9pm, and Sunday from 10am - 3pm. If you're a Park Nicollet Luminary Loppet participant, make sure to stop by the Tin Fish Surly Beer Garden for a free 12 oz. pour from 6pm to 9pm (ID and luminary beer wristband required). Also, anyone wearing a Surly ski suit gets one free 12 oz. pour at either the Tin Fish or Calhoun Square Garden (ID and race bib required). |
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