The Locals HINTS AND HAULS THREAD

Damn, there's gonna be nice pR0n later today!

 

Is the problem real estate (ie, not having room for the tanks?) as opposed to not having enough tanks? It amazes me how small some of the places around her are, but I guess I just assumed Surly was pretty big?

 

I was hoping this would get here before I left for work, I'll probably have to have my fiancée pick it up from the office for me. I'm going to be dying to get home from work today.

 

Their current brewery is a smallish warehouse space in an industrial park in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. It was Omar Ansari's (owner) parents abrasive factory before they turned it over to him to create the brewery. Totally bootstrapped. Jammed packed with fermenters. 30 bbl brewhouse. Amazing what they've turned out of there volume wise.

New brewery opening in December is going to increase their capacity significantly to 100k barrels (right now it's around 30-40k IIRC). I've heard that they're only going to brew furious and hell at the new brewery initially. Their top selling beers by a large magnitude. They are keeping the existing brewery open to brew one offs and the less popular beers.

 

I heard Furious and Hell at the new place.

 

ah yeah, I think you're right, fixed my post.

Hell is their #2 seller, I think.

 

Thanks for the info -- and I guess now I know where Abrasive gets its name from...

 

Forty five pounds of treats, swag and brews delivered to Fed-Ex recently.

Watch your porch, bro.

 

I knew about the former but not the latter, wow.

Yeah I assumed it was just to fit the theme of 'negative vibes' (surly, cynical[e], furious, bitter [brewer], etc)

 

Honestly I just don't get Hell. Not anything special at all (though it also just isn't my style of beer either, so that doesn't help). Hopefully with the changes there will be some fresh Furious around, though I have no idea if that has to do with brewing capacity or the distributor or what. I haven't seen cans of Furious fresher than a month old in forever it seems like. I just went to 4-5 different places last week and the most recent was 9/18.

And yeah, it'll be nice to be able to get all the other Surly stuff again. I'm not a huge fan of wet hop beer, but since I've been working in Minneapolis I do try and make sure to drink it every year as its a solid representation of the style.

 

...boxes have been delivered in Oreland, PA

 

I love that this message beat my refresh on the FedEx tracking page... which happens roughly every 5 minutes.

 

@mbmiche still trying to put together some brewery swag. everyone is out of shirts. thanks to all for the props on the big ass box o beer. it was fun putting together. tried to stick with florida and Georgia wants and out of distro

 

I'm always very anxious when I send out boxes until I see that green checkmark...

 

Holy sh!t ... I got @blackcloud as my sender!!! No box yet (according to my wife) but I'm still finishing work early and sitting by the front door. Eeeeeeeeew-Daaa-Laaaaa-Leeee!

 

Due South is the real deal!

 

Jinx!

 

due south category 5 is a world class ipa

 

they just don't make enough cat 5. I always send as extra when I can get it

 

Hell is probably the easiest beer for people not that into craft to get into out of all of their offerings. I'm with you, not really my thing either.

I've seen Furious as young as 1-2 weeks in the past couple months tho it tends to come and go. I wonder if they rotate with the Chicago market so it comes out in bursts here...

Wet is one of my favorite fresh hop beers, and I haven't had it in a couple of years, looking forward to it returning.