Trappist Monkey
Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- From:
- Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.64 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 11, 2006
- Added:
- Jan 11, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
The beer label says: "In the style of the great Belgian Trappist Ales but with tongue in cheek." Coming in a 500ml brown bottle, bottle-conditioned. BB 28/06/06. Served cool in a slim goblet.
A: light copperish hue with a pale-beige, creamy head, dissipating very slowly and leaving tight lacing along the way.
S: citrussy yeastiness upfront, quite sour actually... as the foamy head dissipates, a more pleasant layer of aroma comes through, with sour-honeyish note, chewy and slightly nutty amber malts, and a farmhouse-ale like damp-sour yeastiness. Overall, it's still too tart to be nice.
T&M: salty-sour flavour of yeasts on top of unbalanced, lightly chocolatey maltiness with a touch of herbal bitterness at the back. A lightly spicy edge is shown at the back of the palate, bringing some dryness to the overall flavour. However, the sourness extends from the nose to the palate showing no signs of retreating, while the malty body is so trivial and light that this beer seems quite unbalanced. The mouthfeel is lively, fed by the bottle-conditioning yeasts, but due to the lack of a richer body it feels somehow "floating" at times...
D: I'm not sure if this bottle is wrongly handled or what, and certainly is a failed attempt to mimick a generally-defined Belgian Ale, like De Koninck or Orval... need to try mu...ch harder.
Jan 11, 2006A: light copperish hue with a pale-beige, creamy head, dissipating very slowly and leaving tight lacing along the way.
S: citrussy yeastiness upfront, quite sour actually... as the foamy head dissipates, a more pleasant layer of aroma comes through, with sour-honeyish note, chewy and slightly nutty amber malts, and a farmhouse-ale like damp-sour yeastiness. Overall, it's still too tart to be nice.
T&M: salty-sour flavour of yeasts on top of unbalanced, lightly chocolatey maltiness with a touch of herbal bitterness at the back. A lightly spicy edge is shown at the back of the palate, bringing some dryness to the overall flavour. However, the sourness extends from the nose to the palate showing no signs of retreating, while the malty body is so trivial and light that this beer seems quite unbalanced. The mouthfeel is lively, fed by the bottle-conditioning yeasts, but due to the lack of a richer body it feels somehow "floating" at times...
D: I'm not sure if this bottle is wrongly handled or what, and certainly is a failed attempt to mimick a generally-defined Belgian Ale, like De Koninck or Orval... need to try mu...ch harder.
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