Monkey Business
Odd Side Ales

Monkey Business (2025) from Odd Side Ales. 12 fl oz bottle, received 17/02/26 in a Ninja box from @Whyteboar (Thanks Craig!) Stored at 40 degrees F at home. Reviewed 22/02/26, review 3695. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Printed vertically on the label in white ink “MFG 02/02/25.” Served at 57.2 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 60.6 degrees F.
Appearance – 4. Basically, looks like every other stout.
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), nearly opaque.
Body – Deep Brown (SRM 30), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, opaque with light penetrating at only the bottom edge, red-amber.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.2 cm, aggressive center pour). Chamoisee lightening to Tan as it oxygenates, high density. Short retention, rapidly dropping to a 0.3 cm crown fed by active carbonation, and a thin, partial cap.
Lacing – Excellent!
Aroma – 3 – Begins with ridiculously strong peanut butter and weak chocolate. No banana, no malt, no hops. No alcohol (11.4 % ABV, as marked on the label).
Flavor – 3 – Sweet and follows the nose. No hops, no malt, no banana. No alcohol. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Moderate gastric burning occurs.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium: Approaching creamy: Soft carbonation.
Style: Sort of follows the BA style description.
Final impression and summation: 3.25 Uncredited but excellent label art, lacking only googly eyes on the simians. When Odd Side hits, like Rye Hipster Bruch, they really hit! Their failures are just as spectacular – the peanut butter stench from this beer is so strong, my turtles left their docks and are sitting on the bottoms of their tanks, resorting to cloacal respiration.