Every Surly I’ve had tastes totally different on tap. The furious is amazing on tap. A revelation to a beer drinker. The smell of citrus, the aroma is wonderful. Then the hops hit you, and it tastes like a real beer, not one of those wheat beers that I’m embarrased to admit I like.
In the can; it’s good and borders on great, but it just isn’t quite there. I’m not sure why. I love the first taste, and the second, but when I get to the bottom of the glass, it’s just not as fantastic as I imagine it.
I’ve had it in a Gremlin Growler, and it’s much closer to the tap flavor there. Either way, this is a damn good beer. If you don’t like your beer to have flavor, you’ll hate Surly. That’s why it’s called Surly, not Girly.
UPDATE: Thanks to Eric for correcting my use of the word “Gremlin.” This is why you shouldn’t review a Surly immediately after drinking it.
Gremlin? You mean growler?
I like Gremlin better.
Admittedly, I did spend about 10 minutes on google, trying to see if maybe a gremlin was some sort keg system I had never heard of. It’s of course not, but it is suggested that the word “gremlin” is derived from goblins who supposedly lived in beer bottles of the brand Kremlin.
I was wondering if you were advocating for drinking and driving. At least it wasn’t in a Pinto.
I was pretty confused, there, too. Had me thinking of “Green Eggs & Ham”…would you, would you in a Gremlin…would you, would you with a …Femlin?”
(that’s what Leroy Neiman called the little spot drawings of cartoon playmates that appeared in Playboy…it’s the only thing I can think of that rhymes with Gremlin!)
I see I need to make a mistake in order to generate comments. Cool. I’ll use that strategy every week.