Greetings Surly Nation, It’s been a good month at Surly Brewing. 1st off, we won a Gold Medal at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Coffee Bender took home the gold in Coffee Flavored Beers! We’re pretty happy about that as it was the first year we entered the festival. Omar and Becca went to the Fest and met up with lots of Surly fans and made many more. Check out https://www.surlybrewing.com/pictures.php for photos of Surly Nation. See you there next year! 2nd – Surly Ultimate, a Frisbee team made up of old guys sponsored by the brewery, took 2nd place at UPA Nationals last weekend in Sarasota, FL. It was a great culmination of my 2 favorite hobbies, drinking beer and playing Ultimate. You know that beer helps make friends as we also took home the Spirit Award for the tournament. Next year, we’ll bring more beer, see you down there. 3rd – Tuesday, October 30th - Darkness release tomorrow night at the Blue Nile in Minneapolis! The bar is located at 2027 East Franklin Ave. Official pouring begins at 7:00. Most of the Surly gang will be there with the new Darkness posters and Darkness t-shirts for sale. Thanks to Adam Turman for coming up with a great look for this year’s Darkness. Check out his art-work at www.adamturman.com. See you tomorrow night! 4th – Coffee Bender at Joe’s Garage Halloween night. Come grab a glass of this year’s Gold Medal winning beer! Check out the Home Grown Halloween Rooftop Double Feature. Joe's Garage Restaurant and Shadow Creek Studios will be showing "The Monster of Phantom Lake" and "It Came From Another World!" on its rooftop patio, Halloween night, starting at 8:30 (doors to open at 7:30). Grilled Hamburgers, hotdogs, and other tasty treats available for purchase. For those who like to alter their egos, we'll be having a costume contest, plus we'll be featuring Surly Coffee Bender, spiked apple cider, and a few other drink specials. There is no cover charge or cost to attend, only your love of the campy, ghoulish, and delicious. Joe's will, however, be accepting donations from folks to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation 5th – Tour! This Saturday, November 3rd. Tour times are at 12:30 & 1:30. As always, no reservations are needed. See you there. 6th – Surly goes to Chicago! Surly beer will be available on draft at select Chicago bars. The whole Surly crew is going down, and we would love to see you as we kick-off Darkness at the following bars: November 12th - Hopleaf & The Map November 13th - Clark Street Ale House, Small Bar - Division, Kuma's Corner & Sheffields Each bar is only getting one keg of Darkness. So if you want to try some of this beer, you better get there early. Times to be determined and will be listed on the Surly calendar page. See you in Chicago! That’s it for now, See you drinking, Omar www.surlybrewing.com To be removed from all of our mailing lists, click here: https://www.surlybrewing.com/mailinglists/mailinglists.php?p=mlist&rem=…