(Brooklyn Center, MN) – Surly Brewing announced a new draft-only beer and provided an update on the much-anticipated WET in Thursday’s email newsletter. More below…
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SURLY DAMPFBIER
We’ve brewed up a special new beer for Kramarczuk’s annual Kielbasa Festival at their restaurant in NE Minneapolis, on Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7 – Surly DAMPFBIER.
Brewed just for this year’s Kielbasa Festival, Dampfbier is a lesser known style of German ale, once popular along the German/Czech border. It is brewed with 100 percent malted barley and fermented (warm) with a traditional Bavarian Hefe-Weizen (wheat) yeast, this is the German equivalent of a “Steam” beer. It’s pale gold in color and medium-bodied, with flavors of toasted bread, cloves, and bananas. Kramarczuk’s will also have Hell and Bitter Brewer on tap at the ‘fest.
BRAINERD & ST. CLOUD
Surly kicked off the Brainerd launch with a bar hop around Gull Lake in August. We’ll be kicking off the St. Cloud launch with a bar hop on Wednesday, September 25.
SURLY WET
At the end of August, we got in a shipment of 1,200 lbs of fresh hops (this year we got 800 lbs. Cascade hops and 400 lbs. of Centennial hops), personally delivered from the folks at Hop Head Farms in Michigan, just 15 hours after they were picked. As soon as the trucks rolled up, we went right to work brewing WET, our wet hop West Coast IPA. To make a wet hop IPA you have to get the brewing going while the hops are as fresh as possible, so the team got straight to it and worked their asses off until they brewed the whole damn shipment.
Look for Surly WET 2013 in stores starting Monday, September 16. But don’t wait long, there is a very limited supply this year! With limited tank space, due to Darkness and SurlyFest production (along with all of our other beers), we’ve had to cut back on our production of WET.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS
This year you’ll be able to Get Surly at Minnesota Vikings home games! They’ll be selling cans of Furious and Hell in section 140, 201 and 224 of the Metrodome all season.