Surly Brewing News – New Canning Line, Pentagram and Overrated IPA

Interesting tidbits from Surly Brewing’s latest newsletter. Cheers!

New Canning Line

We’re doing all we can to make as much beer as possible at our current brewery. We’ve installed more brewing equipment and now we’re installing a new canning line to get more beer out the door, faster.

Our head brewer Todd Haug went all the way to the Comac Canning and Bottling Plant factory in Bergamo, Northern Italy last week to test out the line for himself.

The new canning line is double the speed of our existing line, it can fill more than 3,000 cans an hour and it’ll even load the cans from the pallet for us. The system will be online in a month or so, and it will eventually move to our Destination Brewery. If you want to check it out, make sure to try and get yourself on the next available Surly Brewery Tour.

Pentagram (fka Surly Five)

Because it’s Winterfest, we’re going to be pouring something special. We’ll be serving our new seasonal, Pentagram. It’s a 100 percent Brettanomyces Dark Ale aged in red wine barrels. It has flavors of sour cherry, tobacco, oak and a classic ‘Brett’ barnyard funk balanced by dark Munich malt chewiness.

We’ll be bottling Pentagram soon, so look out for a release date later in February 2013.

Overrated IPA

This week, artwork for our upcoming canned West Coast IPA, Overrated, was leaked on the Internet. The unicorn-themed can art (below) was what we really wanted for Overrated but the Feds denied our artistic vision. They said it was too appealing to underage drinking, as if adults can’t be into unicorns and rainbows?! Pfft. It’s a little over the top, that’s the joke…

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