Our BEERs
Each day, Surly relentlessly pursues craft beer perfection. Pushing boundaries, honing techniques, sweating the details, and eternally grateful that we get to do this for our job. Proudly independent since Day One and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
darkness day 2024
Our Darkness Day event has come and gone for 2024. We will be posting a recap soon! Meanwhile, you will find 2024 Darkness in our retail stores starting mid-October.
Surly Gives a Damn (SGAD) is our charitable arm. It’s our way of giving back to the communities that built us. We contribute to organizations that make our part of the world a better place to live, through donations, partnerships and volunteer events. Our volunteers are a vital, passionate bunch, and they really do give a damn. You’re more than welcome to join. We’d love to have you.
It`s pretty obscure and you probably haven`t heard about it, but 33 years ago this week, what started as a typical fall in Minnesota soon gave way to The Halloween Blizzard of 1991. It became a landmark event in local and Upper Midwest lore.
Why are we bringing this up? Because we want to make sure you read our post about the winter Beer Hall hours of operation that take effect on Tuesday, Oct. 29, and Minnesotans cannot get enough of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991. The algorithm doesn`t lie.
Beer Hall
Monday Closed
Tuesday 3pm – 9pm
Wednesday 3pm – 9pm
Thursday 3pm – 9pm
Friday 3pm – 11pm
Saturday 11am – 11pm
Sunday 11am – 9pm
Surly Pizza Upstairs
Monday Closed
Tuesday 3pm – 9pm
Wednesday 3pm – 9pm
Thursday 3pm – 9pm
Friday 3pm – 10pm
Saturday 12pm – 10pm
Sunday 12pm – 9pm
📸 via Christine Armbruster
In conclusion, the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.
The monumental Surly Thanksgiving Feast is back. A legitimately epic meal crafted to serve 4-6 hungry people, this kit delivers everything you need, from the bird to the sides to the beer.
Your 2024 Menu:
3 lbs smoked turkey w/jus, lemon-herb brined and smoked over oak
2 qts white cheddar mashed potatoes with heavy cream and butter
1 qt turkey demi gravy
2 qts green bean casserole (this is Minnesota, we legally have to offer this) w/smoked mushroom cream and crispy fried onions
1 qt herb stuffing—mirepoix, thyme, sage, parsley, chicken stock
1/2 pan baby kale salad-dried cherries, puffed wild rice, feta, cider vinaigrette
1 pint Pentagram cranberries
Milk buns w/honey butter
Pumpkin pie
1 750 mL bottle of Feastbier 2024 (wee heavy aged in Dickel whiskey barrels w/vanilla)
Add-on Options:
2 lbs dark meat w/jus, lemon-herb brined and smoked over oak
THE GRAZER-smoked salmon, cornichon, caper berry, mortadella, marinated olives, coppa, ham & pickle rolls, grilled artichoke, giardiniera, caprese bites, brie, bleu cheese, prairie breeze, crackers, crostini
In the spirit of the holiday, Surly Gives a Damn will be matching all donations to Second Harvest Heartland food shelf up to $5,000. Details can be found on the order form!
The Feast sells out every year, so we would suggest ordering sooner rather than later.
Link to order in bio!
The consensus at Surly is that 2024 was the best Darkness Day ever. Our annual Darkness Day video leaves no doubt.
Lots of other beers are called approachable. Friendly. Refreshing. Crushable.
Abrasive isn`t like the other beers.
Fueled by an unreasonable amount of Citra hops, Abrasive Double IPA swaggers with aggressive tropical fruit notes and a welcome, throwback bitterness. An ample hit of oats provides a remarkably smooth finish that belies its 9.2% ABV. Minnesota`s original double IPA is a hop-fueled punch in the mouth that reminds you and your friends why you got into craft beer in the first place.
Abrasive heads to all Surly markets this week on draft and in tallboy 4-packs.
An undefeated deal on Before I Die merch: Take 25% off the @sotastickco BID beanie and the BID tee using the codeword SKOL at checkout (online or in-store). Links in bio!
The Four Horses* of the Apocalypse.
Darkness 2024 starts hitting stores this week and next! Settle in for the scariest movie you can stream with our legendary imperial stout.
*Technically, they`re Kelpies, creatures of Scottish legend, illustrated here by St. Paul`s own Susan Evans.
Our Surly Gives A Damn Donation Garden did a bang-up job this year after we got her up and running in late June. That said, winter is coming and it is time to be putting her to bed for the season, which we`ll be doing this Saturday from 9am-noon.
Tasks will include:
Cleaning all the beds out.
Adding soil.
Spreading mulch.
Pulling up the irrigation system, and other things as needed.
Everything that`s grown out of our garden is donated to Every Meal, who in turn give it to their clients for healthy, fresh produce over the summer months. We`re still tallying up the total amount grown, but the garden fed a remarkable number of folks this year, and we want to give her a nice sendoff before the winter.
Come join the fun! And first beer is on us at the Beer Hall when our work is done. Sign up at the link in our bio!
If you`re up this early, you`re doing one of two things:
*Preparing to run the Twin Cities Marathon.
*Preparing to watch the Minnesota Vikings put Aaron Rodgers in hell.
We wish all of you good luck in these endeavors, and remind you that a cold Furious will taste incredible when you`re done.
We like to make Darkness Day a full-on experience. When you’re not sampling imperial stouts or getting in the pit, you can snag vintage vinyl, apply some corpse paint, get tattoos of the temporary or permanent nature, and even register to vote. Make a day of it.
Doors open at 11am. Line forms a lot earlier, come hang!
Darkness plays well with others. Each Darkness Day, we ask our brewers to make their own riff on our classic imperial stout and invite our friends in the industry to collaborate as well. Throw in a couple surprises and our annual release of WET, and there’s more than enough to warm even the most jaded beer geek’s heart this Saturday. Here`s the rundown:
NEW RELEASES ON DRAFT ALL DAY:
Darkness 2024 (duh)
WET
Deathwestern Dark Lager (collab w/TRVE)
Wackelbier Strong Lager (collab w/Revolution)
Sunset Cream Orange Cream Ale
Bitter Brewer (really)
TIMED TAPPINGS:
11:00AM–2024 Brewers Variants
Horchata Darkness (Joe Nourse)
Marzipan Darkness (Sam Goertz)
PSL Darkness (Matthew McKenna)
Noon–2024 In-Market Darkness Variants Preview
Cola Darkness
Double Barrel-Aged Darkness
Chocolate Limoncello Darkness
1:00pm–Darkness Collabs
Darkness with Friends: TRVE. Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness with Raspberry, Pistachio, and Sea Salt
Darkness with Friends: Revolution. Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness Aged on Single-Origin French Oak Staves
2:00pm–2023 Darkness Variants
Cold Smoked Cherry Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness
Coco Nitro Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness
Parker’s Heritage 10-Year Heavy Char Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness
3:00pm–Bottle Project Favorites
King Harvest (2023)
North (2024)
East (2024)
4:00pm–2021 Darkness Variants
Gimme S’More Darkness
Midnight Manhattan Darkness
Have we mentioned how stoked we are to have ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT headlining Darkness Day? We definitely have, but we`re saying it again.
On that note, here are the set times, subject to change by acts of god, locusts, etc.:
8:30pm: Rocket From The Crypt
7:15pm: Schizophonics
6:15pm: Mean Jeans
5:15pm: Christy Costello
4:15pm: The Rumours
3:00pm: ROT
1:45pm: Khemmis
12:30pm: Impaler
11:30am: God Came From Space
https://surlybrewing.com/darknessday2024/
