10.13.09
House Painting
My parents were kind enough to come down and lend a hand painting the house.
Before
During
AFter
It’s just the front, but it’s a start - and very exciting.
Surly Wet
I ventured over to the Groveland Tap to get some Surly Wet.
Hops.
Surly Wet was brewed back on September 11th - I know becuase I was at the brewery tour that night. The smell was absolutely spectacular. It was one of those fantastic pungeant smells that sticks in your nose. I smelled it for two days. Surly had 1400 pounds of hops trucked in right off the vine from the west coast.
A smell in your nose for that long will certainly leave an impact - and I really needed to find out what the product of that crazy hopping would be. The beer certainly lived up to my weeks of curiosity.
It started hoppy, as you would expect. The middle of the tast was very similar to Furious - but this one just kept going. The aromatics were really solid, but the bitterness stayed. The last flavors of the hops didn’t leave the back of my mouth until I either a) drank more or b) waited a full minute. Now, I’m not normally a super hoppy IPA type guy - but this had so many great flavors mixed in with the acif of the hops that I found it really enjoyable.
Nice job Surly. You keep making it, I’ll keep drkining it.