Monkey IPA
Art Brew
- From:
- Art Brew
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.27 | pDev: 8.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 15, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.54/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
(Notes of 22/06/13) Coming in a 500ml bomber brown bottle, bottle-conditioned; BB 03/2015, served mildly chilled in a straight imperial pint glass.
Appearance: pours a very low carbonated, murky, dark orangey amber body, topped with a thin layer of creamy, light beige froth.
Smell: overripe fruit-estery, mineral-ish, and exotic fruity on top of a rich but not heavy pale malt backbone; the hop aroma suggests passion-fruits from the “New World hops” and Styrian Goldings’ lovely musky notes, while a tinge of lactose drink like Yakult from the yeastiness works well behind the lightly raw-ish, gristy pale malts to render a further exotic impression overall. Nicely estery and not hugely hoppy, in my opinion.
Taste: quite flat on the palate, the foretaste is essentially… mixed, which is mildly orangey-fruity, fruit estery, earthy hoppy, mineral-ish and mildly phenolic yeasty, then going intensifyingly “flat”-bitter (i.e. the bitterness stays very very low on the palate without the support of a more vertical dimension of chewy hop tannins, if this makes sense…), leaving undertones as of a Belgian pale ale in terms of the exotic green-bean paste, candy sugar, plus sweetened powdered green tea.
Mouthfeel & Overall: the palate is way too flat probably due to unsuccessful bottle-conditioning; at the same time, the yeast applied does work in a very different fashion than in one’s normal British ale, in that lots of estery and other bi-products seem to “steal the stage” to complicate the original plan of showcasing massive hopping against a moderate malt backbone.
Jun 25, 2013Appearance: pours a very low carbonated, murky, dark orangey amber body, topped with a thin layer of creamy, light beige froth.
Smell: overripe fruit-estery, mineral-ish, and exotic fruity on top of a rich but not heavy pale malt backbone; the hop aroma suggests passion-fruits from the “New World hops” and Styrian Goldings’ lovely musky notes, while a tinge of lactose drink like Yakult from the yeastiness works well behind the lightly raw-ish, gristy pale malts to render a further exotic impression overall. Nicely estery and not hugely hoppy, in my opinion.
Taste: quite flat on the palate, the foretaste is essentially… mixed, which is mildly orangey-fruity, fruit estery, earthy hoppy, mineral-ish and mildly phenolic yeasty, then going intensifyingly “flat”-bitter (i.e. the bitterness stays very very low on the palate without the support of a more vertical dimension of chewy hop tannins, if this makes sense…), leaving undertones as of a Belgian pale ale in terms of the exotic green-bean paste, candy sugar, plus sweetened powdered green tea.
Mouthfeel & Overall: the palate is way too flat probably due to unsuccessful bottle-conditioning; at the same time, the yeast applied does work in a very different fashion than in one’s normal British ale, in that lots of estery and other bi-products seem to “steal the stage” to complicate the original plan of showcasing massive hopping against a moderate malt backbone.
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