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The Tickle Monster
Siren Craft Brew
- From:
- Siren Craft Brew
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 13.1%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 08, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 27, 2014
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 1
Collaboration with To Øl
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Ratings by ZombiesAteMyDog:
Rated by ZombiesAteMyDog from Indiana
4/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jun 18, 2015
4/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jun 18, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by aleigator from Germany
2.45/5 rDev -38.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
2.45/5 rDev -38.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
Pours a clean amber-orange color with a bigger, spongy white head.
Smells of ripe passion fruit, mango peel and a bready, slightly sweet caramel backbone.
Drinks with a smooth, soft beginning, which finishes burning hot, due to the high abv in this, brought to the palate by a late effervescence.
Tastes of bread dough, orange peel and carrots among red apples and mango. The beer then changes fundamentaly, it develops a sudden, overly sweet sugar shock, topped off by a prominent booze burn. The beer develops a late hop dryness, which is the only thing at this point being able to cut through the cloyingly sweet maltiness.
This is hard to drink. The beer tastes awful, due to its lack in balance, compensated by sugar and a hot, lasting alcohol presence, which burns down the throat slowly.
Jan 08, 2021Smells of ripe passion fruit, mango peel and a bready, slightly sweet caramel backbone.
Drinks with a smooth, soft beginning, which finishes burning hot, due to the high abv in this, brought to the palate by a late effervescence.
Tastes of bread dough, orange peel and carrots among red apples and mango. The beer then changes fundamentaly, it develops a sudden, overly sweet sugar shock, topped off by a prominent booze burn. The beer develops a late hop dryness, which is the only thing at this point being able to cut through the cloyingly sweet maltiness.
This is hard to drink. The beer tastes awful, due to its lack in balance, compensated by sugar and a hot, lasting alcohol presence, which burns down the throat slowly.
Reviewed by mdagnew from Northern Ireland
4.22/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
330ml bottle bought from Lighthouse Wines, Jordanstown
Poured a murky coppery orange colour with quite a few yeast floaties. Creamy head poured quite loose and frothy then faded quickly to patchy covering with thickish edging. No carbonation at all... light lacing...
Aroma - Nice strong juicy (maybe candied) fruits (orange peel, mango, apricots, light pineapple) mixed with light biscuity maltiness, some almond / marzipan notes, light caramel and honey sweetness, strong piney notes, cut grass, quite rubbery, herbal and floral, light woodiness, some alcoholic esters...
Taste pretty much follows the aromas... lots of rich resinous piney hop bitterness with sweet tropical fruits (melon, mango, apricots), caramel malts, floral honey, light medicinal notes, quite herbal, marzipan, some metallic traces, lots of warming alcohol
Feel - Rich and creamy with a little bite underneath... full bodied... a little too boozy to be very drinkable
Overall - An excellent double IPA which verges on American Barleywine... highly recommended..
Jan 30, 2015Poured a murky coppery orange colour with quite a few yeast floaties. Creamy head poured quite loose and frothy then faded quickly to patchy covering with thickish edging. No carbonation at all... light lacing...
Aroma - Nice strong juicy (maybe candied) fruits (orange peel, mango, apricots, light pineapple) mixed with light biscuity maltiness, some almond / marzipan notes, light caramel and honey sweetness, strong piney notes, cut grass, quite rubbery, herbal and floral, light woodiness, some alcoholic esters...
Taste pretty much follows the aromas... lots of rich resinous piney hop bitterness with sweet tropical fruits (melon, mango, apricots), caramel malts, floral honey, light medicinal notes, quite herbal, marzipan, some metallic traces, lots of warming alcohol
Feel - Rich and creamy with a little bite underneath... full bodied... a little too boozy to be very drinkable
Overall - An excellent double IPA which verges on American Barleywine... highly recommended..
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.23/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Blurring the line where imperial IPA end and American barleywine begin, the latest Siren and To Ol collaboration flirts with that line with seemingly sinful delight.
Glowing with golden and burnt orange ribbons, it casts a dense patina-stained froth across its surface. Thwarting forth a boisterous bouquet of fruit, hops and powerfully laden alcohol spice. As its sweet and candied malts lay heavy on the early palate, the plethora of red grapefruit, orange, melon, passionfruit, pineapple, mango and apricot greets the tastebuds as its magical esters and dripping hop character seduce the senses.
Full-bodied and dense with candied fruit, the taste of honey, caramel and simple syrup give the citrusy and tropical hops a sense of being plump, vibrant and vine-ripened before closing with thin fructose. Meanwhile, bitterness begins to billow from below, bringing about deeply resinous pine, fresh-cut grass and those whimsical herbaceous compounds that remind us of cannabis.
Malty-dry late, the beer's long finish lingers with strong hop bitterness and stubborn sweetness dueling it out well into the next sip. Spicy alcohols carry the sharpness of acetone and peppercorn as the complexities keep on coming as the beer warms and the mouth slowly acclimates to its power.
Jan 28, 2015Glowing with golden and burnt orange ribbons, it casts a dense patina-stained froth across its surface. Thwarting forth a boisterous bouquet of fruit, hops and powerfully laden alcohol spice. As its sweet and candied malts lay heavy on the early palate, the plethora of red grapefruit, orange, melon, passionfruit, pineapple, mango and apricot greets the tastebuds as its magical esters and dripping hop character seduce the senses.
Full-bodied and dense with candied fruit, the taste of honey, caramel and simple syrup give the citrusy and tropical hops a sense of being plump, vibrant and vine-ripened before closing with thin fructose. Meanwhile, bitterness begins to billow from below, bringing about deeply resinous pine, fresh-cut grass and those whimsical herbaceous compounds that remind us of cannabis.
Malty-dry late, the beer's long finish lingers with strong hop bitterness and stubborn sweetness dueling it out well into the next sip. Spicy alcohols carry the sharpness of acetone and peppercorn as the complexities keep on coming as the beer warms and the mouth slowly acclimates to its power.
Reviewed by barczar from Kentucky
3.89/5 rDev -2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev -2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Sweet caramel malt backbone, resin, muted citrus, and fresh cut grass in aroma.
Citrus is more pronounced in flavor initially, with herbal hops leading to a fairly bitter finish. The sweet malt is more reminiscent of a barleywine in strength. Herbal notes linger in the aftertaste, and eventually dominate.
Fairly evident alcohol, and relatively lackluster hop character. A decent brew, but I expect more from to ol.
Jan 11, 2015Citrus is more pronounced in flavor initially, with herbal hops leading to a fairly bitter finish. The sweet malt is more reminiscent of a barleywine in strength. Herbal notes linger in the aftertaste, and eventually dominate.
Fairly evident alcohol, and relatively lackluster hop character. A decent brew, but I expect more from to ol.
Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia
4.3/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Pours amber with a large head.
Nose shows pine, sweet clean malt, resinous hops, aromatic wood and soft booze.
Flavours of cedars, sweet clean syrupy malt, soft booze, resinous and piny hops, spicy herbal notes. Pretty awesome stuff.
Jan 09, 2015Nose shows pine, sweet clean malt, resinous hops, aromatic wood and soft booze.
Flavours of cedars, sweet clean syrupy malt, soft booze, resinous and piny hops, spicy herbal notes. Pretty awesome stuff.
The Tickle Monster from Siren Craft Brew
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
17 ratings
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