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.
Let Surly cater your holiday get-together! Our kitchen has a variety of options for you to select (savory, sweet, a frankly absurd amount of shrimp) whether you`re feeding 4 or forty. More info and order form in our bio!
IN STORES NOW: Double Bladed Axe Man. Guiding your journey to IPA Valhalla with a mighty swing of Citra and Mosaic hops, Double Bladed Axe Man delivers the extraordinary flavor and aromatics of one of America’s most acclaimed IPAs, doubled. Fits in most stockings.
First Avenue, Jam, and The Current present:
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue – Might Not Make It Home Tour
with JJ Grey & Mofro
Surly Brewing Festival Field
Friday, July 11, 2025
18+ show
$49.50 advance/$49.50 DOS
5:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime
Public Onsale: Friday, December 13 at 10:00 AM
Ticket link in bio!
If you`re stopping by the Beer Hall and/or Dorit`s Tavern this weekend, make sure to bring a new, unwrapped toy for our Toys for Tots bin, right at the front entrance. Surly Gives A Damn will even give you a free beer for your donation!
If you need gift ideas, according to this Montgomery Ward`s catalog, the most popular toys this year are Cabbage Patch Kids, the Atari 2600, and Teddy Ruxpin. Wait, hold on, this is from 1983. Shoot. Just go to toysfortots.org/faq/ instead.
NOW OPEN: Dorit’s Tavern. The lights are hung. The jello shots are chllled. The deviled eggs are, uh, deviled. Our ‘80s-themed holiday pop-up is now taking reservations along with walk-ins for the bar on our second floor. We look forward to feeding you (before midnight).
*Reservation link in bio*
From the same team that brought you Surly`s massive Thanksgiving Meal Kit comes our Holiday Food To-Go, a choose-your-own-adventure suite of meals and appetizers for whatever December is sending your way, whether you’re hosting a quiet family dinner or a full-on blowout.
The star of the show is the Grazer, which was by far our most popular Thanksgiving add-on and now available all on its own. As a reminder, this one has EVERYTHING: smoked salmon, cornichon, caper berry, mortadella, marinated olives, coppa, ham & pickle rolls, grilled artichoke, giardiniera, caprese bites, brie, bleu cheese, prairie breeze, crackers, and crostini
If your tastes are more aquatic in nature, we also have a substantial shrimp platter, with four lbs. of shrimp, plus lemon and cocktail sauce.
Our sandwich platter hits all your deli favorites: Ham (pickles, lettuce, American, mustard), Turkey (cheddar, bacon, lettuce, tomato, garlic aioli), Roast Beef (provolone, arugula, red onion, Dijon), Pastrami (Swiss, kraut, remoulade), and a Veggie Wrap (red pepper hummus, feta, olives, grilled peppers and onions, artichokes, arugula). Four of each sandwich/wrap included.
We also have four heat-and-serve appetizer options for the party:
Pretzel Stix w/Pimento Cheese
Meatballs (marinara, focaccia)
Artichoke Dip w/Focaccia
Pulled Pork (Carolina BBQ, milk buns)
And why not finish with dessert? Three different cookies, three different bars, a half-dozen of each kind.
As noted, grab as much as you need. No minimums, no maximums. Order at the link in our bio.
Deadline to order is Wednesday, 12/18. Choose your own pickup date of Monday, 12/23 or Monday, 12/30.
We bring you tidings of great joy--Surly`s Darkness Variants are hitting the market as you read this. In boxed 16 oz. cans that slide gracefully into a loved one`s stocking and/or your own pint glass, these delicious riffs on our iconic imperial stout are a real gift.
Your 2024 Variants:
*COLA. Developed by Surly`s Francis Willette, this effervescent Darkness detour aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla, dried orange peel, cola flavoring, and demerara sugar. You`ll get a hint of orange and spice on the nose, with overtones approaching a Mexican Coke.
*DOUBLE BARREL. Literally. Darkness aged on Tattersall Rum and O`Shaughnessy Bourbon barrels, with a generous helping of vanilla to finish. Massive rum/bourbon notes, along with vanilla sweetness and woody oak.
*CHOCOLATE LIMONCELLO. Surly VP of Brewing Operations Ben Smith came up with the inspiration for this curveball on a trip to Italy, pairing lemon puree and cacao in a Darkness base, with time spent aging on French oak for good measure. The citrus aromatics and chocolate/coffee backbone echo drinks like espresso & tonic, but this is its own damn thing. We can`t wait for you to try it.
Look for all three variants at your preferred Surly outlet, and on draft in our Beer Hall this Wednesday.
As you tailgate in the cold today, a reminder that Furious and choppers go together like Kevin O`Connell and quarterback reclamation projects.
The Toys for Tots Drive is underway in the Beer Hall! Bring in a new, unwrapped toy(s), drop it in the big bin, and get a free beer or N/A beverage on us.
A couple fantastic deals in our retail store today through Cyber Monday!
1. BOGO on all our Take Five and Double Take offerings! Discount taken at checkout both in-store and online.
2. MYSTERY DEALS in the online store. Steep discounts on mystery hoodies, tees, and merch. Tell us your size, submit your order, and we`ll send you the goods.
Links in the bio!
THE SURLY GUIDE TO THANKSGIVING 2024
Thanksgiving is this week. Are you ready? The short answer is “No.” The long answer is “No, and shut up.” Winter weather, overcrowded airports, the startling fact that December starts on Sunday. It’s all barreling your way like a boulder rolling downhill. You look like you could use a beer. Some recommendations from an award-winning regional brewery can be found below:
SITUATION: The night before Thanksgiving/”Drinksgiving.” Everyone’s home to see the fam on Thursday, which means you get to hang with all your friends on Wednesday night. Unfortunately, the last time you did that, someone ordered shots that were basically scotch and kerosene. Twice. You woke up in a house that wasn’t yours in a town that wasn’t incorporated. You’re not that young anymore and you have a big day tomorrow.
SUGGESTED PAIRING: DOUBLE TAKE G&T AND DOUBLE TAKE TRANSFUSION. These limited-release social mocktails have 10mg and zero alcohol. Enjoy on ice or straight from the can. Carving the turkey without a hangover may take some getting used to, but we believe in you.
SITUATION: The "fun run." First of all, they only call it that because it rhymes. The only people who should be up this early are those hearty souls preparing the feast, but nope, someone decided signing up for a 5k/10k was a good idea. It’s cold outside. People are dressed like turkeys. This is madness. Calories aren’t even real today, what are you doing?
RECOMMENDATION: HOUSE BLEND NITRO COFFEE ALE. This collab with Peace Coffee is rich, roasty, and smooth. As the runners trudge past your house, shuffle out in your hoodie and pajama pants, raise your pint glass, and go back inside to snooze along with the dog and Al Roker.
More recommendations at the link in our bio!
Our annual Slightly Selfish Surly Gift Giving deal is live, in-store and online. Buy $50 in gift cards, get a $10 bonus card. Buy $100, get $25. What you do with the bonus cards is between you and Santa Claus. Link to purchase in bio.
OH MY GOD, THEY`RE TURKEYS!
Turns out we have enough them to make roughly 40-50 more of our Thanksgiving Meal Kits, so if you’re still looking to feed your people without spending all Thursday in the kitchen, place your order this weekend! Link in bio.
*no turkeys were pitched out of a helicopter in the making of our meal kits
The thing about our Double Take mocktails is that they taste great out of the can, but you can really bring out your inner bartender, too.
Look for Transfusion and G&T wherever you get Surly`s Double Take and Take Five beverages!
If we didn`t respond to your email in a timely manner today, it`s because we were out delivering Thanksgiving meals to Open Arms clients! Surly Gives A Damn volunteers dropped off their weekly meal PLUS a frozen turkey and fixings for the holiday.
@openarmsmn is a nonprofit that cooks and delivers free, nutritious meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses in the Twin Cities. We are, well, thankful to be partnering with them again this November!
Time is running out to order our titanic Thanksgiving Meal Kit for the season! Everything you could want in a meal for 4-6 hungry people, plus beer (Feastbier 2024 is a Wee Heavy aged in George Dickel whiskey barrels with vanilla).
Link to order in our bio.
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