Traditional Monastery Ale
Friars' Brewhouse
- From:
- Friars' Brewhouse
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 13.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 08, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 28, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by deltatauhobbit from Maine
3.9/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
750ml bottle, caged and corked
Batch 63, Bottle 70
Pours a dark brown color with a large off-white foamy head, fades at a slow rate and leaves tons of lacing on the glass.
Smell has a strong caramel malt backing with a mild yeasty aroma and the slightest touch of hops on the nose.
Taste is heavy on the caramel malt flavoring, on the sweeter end of things but not overly so or cloying, carbonation is plentiful but very soft and lends a creamy body, very bready and can be heavy at times.
Drinks more like a Belgian Dark Ale or even a Bock, I would not classify this as a Saison/Farmhouse Ale in the least, missing the heavy spice or funk that is usually associated with that style so temper your expectations.
May 16, 2015Batch 63, Bottle 70
Pours a dark brown color with a large off-white foamy head, fades at a slow rate and leaves tons of lacing on the glass.
Smell has a strong caramel malt backing with a mild yeasty aroma and the slightest touch of hops on the nose.
Taste is heavy on the caramel malt flavoring, on the sweeter end of things but not overly so or cloying, carbonation is plentiful but very soft and lends a creamy body, very bready and can be heavy at times.
Drinks more like a Belgian Dark Ale or even a Bock, I would not classify this as a Saison/Farmhouse Ale in the least, missing the heavy spice or funk that is usually associated with that style so temper your expectations.
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.82/5 rDev +11%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +11%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
From the corked, caged 750 ml. bottle. Batch #53 of 100 bottles. Sampled on December 31, 2014.
Deep reddish brown pour with a modest mocha head. Moderate clarity.
The aroma is burnt toast, dark malts, slight smoke, and dried dark fruit
The body is light to medium. Not very filling.
The taste is toasted malts, coffee grinds, but little hop bitterness. It is however very easy to drink.
Jan 01, 2015Deep reddish brown pour with a modest mocha head. Moderate clarity.
The aroma is burnt toast, dark malts, slight smoke, and dried dark fruit
The body is light to medium. Not very filling.
The taste is toasted malts, coffee grinds, but little hop bitterness. It is however very easy to drink.
Reviewed by Quicksilver from Maine
3.84/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
It's not a Saison / Farmhouse style. I would say it's a decent Amber ale with a nice reddish color , strong malt background , high alpha hop bitterness ( Nugget, Warrior, Centennial? ) I don't taste Belgian Yeast seems to be an ale yeast maybe English or something from the Pacific Northwest. Fair amount of alcohol I read it's 5% AVB but it seems higher. I bought it at UFO in Naples Maine
Batch # 53 Bottle # 19 purchased 12/23/14
Dec 24, 2014Batch # 53 Bottle # 19 purchased 12/23/14
Reviewed by Ivanhoes_Backpack from Canada (NB)
3.11/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.11/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Batch #009, bottle #022. These guys have only been selling out of Bangor Wine and Cheese for a few weeks now, and I was able to get in a couple hours after they made a delivery. That said, they were already out of the Whoopie Pie Porter, which, for obvious reasons, I most wanted to try of their beers, but I settled for their other two offerings. Anyway.
A - a lot darker than I thought it would be. A cloudy light brown, amber colour. Great head though, half a finger the whole way down. Watch out for sediment on the bottom of the bottle though, probably a whole finger of that.
S - roasted caramel, toast, maybe some honey.
T - malty breadyness, some sweetness upfront, but then a little watery on the backend, some bitterness lingers.
M - fairly lightly bodied, despite its colour. Could use a little more carbonation, though with less carbonation it makes it fairly sessionable and easy to drink.
O - I want to like this beer as I really like the concept of a Monastery brewed beer in Maine, but I just find this one so confusing. I'm hoping their brown is a bit better (at least I'll know what to expect). What style is this supposed to be? Their website (fb) had tasting notes that described this as being made in a saison style, but it neither looks nor acts like any saison I've ever seen. Almost more like a home-brewed English Cream Ale my dad makes from a kit. I guess I had it in my head that this would be Belgian-y because monks brewed it, although I admit that that may be a bit narrow-minded of me. just because they're monks doesn't mean they have to make Belgian beers. So good on them for breaking the stereotype.
Oct 28, 2013A - a lot darker than I thought it would be. A cloudy light brown, amber colour. Great head though, half a finger the whole way down. Watch out for sediment on the bottom of the bottle though, probably a whole finger of that.
S - roasted caramel, toast, maybe some honey.
T - malty breadyness, some sweetness upfront, but then a little watery on the backend, some bitterness lingers.
M - fairly lightly bodied, despite its colour. Could use a little more carbonation, though with less carbonation it makes it fairly sessionable and easy to drink.
O - I want to like this beer as I really like the concept of a Monastery brewed beer in Maine, but I just find this one so confusing. I'm hoping their brown is a bit better (at least I'll know what to expect). What style is this supposed to be? Their website (fb) had tasting notes that described this as being made in a saison style, but it neither looks nor acts like any saison I've ever seen. Almost more like a home-brewed English Cream Ale my dad makes from a kit. I guess I had it in my head that this would be Belgian-y because monks brewed it, although I admit that that may be a bit narrow-minded of me. just because they're monks doesn't mean they have to make Belgian beers. So good on them for breaking the stereotype.
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