Beer: Surly Furious

My first beer post! Appropriately, it is about my current favorite beer, Surly Furious. This also happens to be the beer brewed closest to my house, the brewery being in Brooklyn Center, MN. Surly Furious is a deliciously hoppy beer, but it has a crispness that other heavily hopped beers lack. Some highly hopped beers overwhelm you with their bitterness, but Surly Furious manages to check in at 100 IBUs (International Bitterness Units, the universal measure of a beer's bitterness) without overwhelming you with hops. The Surly website claims that this is due to the use of Golden Promise malt, which is the same type of malt used in Macallan scotch. Whatever the reason, Surly Furious is a strong, hoppy ale with a terrific flavor. It will hit you with bitterness without overwhelming you. If you want to start your journey into heavily hopped beers, you could do much worse than Surly Furious.