Surly Bender, spinach pizza
Unwinding with some Pizza Luce before heading over to clean out my old apartment. Beer seemed like a good idea. Of course, I don’t like anything that goes with pizza worth a damn. I forged ahead with a Bender anyway. (I had in mind a pleasant memory of finishing off the Coffee Bender from Nikii’s Surly flight at Common Roots the other week, yum. Anyway!) Surly calls it “an oatmeal brown ale that defies traditional categories” and it is a tasty beer even though spicy pizza sauce erases the tastiest part, which is the vanilla-caramel at the end, thereby making the hops taste more explodey. Because I could, also tried it with the after-dinner chocolate mints; I would not do that again, but I would cheerfully drink this beer with a non-minty dessert. For the record, near the bottom of the glass, I made the bitter beer face and had to throw in the towel.
(Fact: Surly Brewing and Surly bikes are both in the Twin Cities, but are unaffiliated. Opinion: Surly bikes are so goddamn pretty.)
mrbeefy 9:30 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink |
You make me want beers I probably can’t have. They sound tasty. A hoppy brown ale is my favorite pizza beer so far, but I’ll keep trying other styles.