Honey Monk
Braustil
- From:
- Braustil
- Germany
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Ale
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.71 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 03, 2014
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by boddhitree from Germany
4.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Honey Monk. The name is due to the use of real honey and Abbey malt, which also imparts a honey flavor. 5.3%
Appearance: Dark brown, some black tints, under a light tan head. Cloudy due to being unfiltered and unpasteurized.
Aroma: Wow! Honey, caramel, sweetness of raisins, a hint of molasses, chocolate,... powerful.
Flavor:
Front: tartness is the first thing, nutty also, but quickly gives way to a roasted, burnt caramel sweetness combined with a nice bitterness that's supporting it all. Citrus is prevalent, too, combined with a heavy chutney like flavor.
Mid: again wow, the honey gives a complex flavor that is between chutney, chocolate, honey, raisins, and molasses. You also get tartness and some bitterness, both strong but well blended with the sweet flavor.
Back: more of the same but more stress on the the roast malt flavor. More honey flavor, sweet burnt sugars and tons of umami.
Aftertaste: roast malt, tartness and sweet honey.
Mouthfeel: here is where the honey comes into play- a roundness, fullness that doesn't come from malts and not thick, just a goldilocks feelings.
Overall, a WOW beer! You have such a complex amount if flavors, richness of multiple sweet flavors, bitter but also a full on chutney flavor that comes and goes. It almost is but isn’t too sweet. First impressions are really sweet honey-like flavors and tartness. But the more you drink it, it becomes more balanced with pils malt tartness and noble hop bitterness just enough to keep the other flavors from overpowering and to enhance them.
Oct 03, 2014Appearance: Dark brown, some black tints, under a light tan head. Cloudy due to being unfiltered and unpasteurized.
Aroma: Wow! Honey, caramel, sweetness of raisins, a hint of molasses, chocolate,... powerful.
Flavor:
Front: tartness is the first thing, nutty also, but quickly gives way to a roasted, burnt caramel sweetness combined with a nice bitterness that's supporting it all. Citrus is prevalent, too, combined with a heavy chutney like flavor.
Mid: again wow, the honey gives a complex flavor that is between chutney, chocolate, honey, raisins, and molasses. You also get tartness and some bitterness, both strong but well blended with the sweet flavor.
Back: more of the same but more stress on the the roast malt flavor. More honey flavor, sweet burnt sugars and tons of umami.
Aftertaste: roast malt, tartness and sweet honey.
Mouthfeel: here is where the honey comes into play- a roundness, fullness that doesn't come from malts and not thick, just a goldilocks feelings.
Overall, a WOW beer! You have such a complex amount if flavors, richness of multiple sweet flavors, bitter but also a full on chutney flavor that comes and goes. It almost is but isn’t too sweet. First impressions are really sweet honey-like flavors and tartness. But the more you drink it, it becomes more balanced with pils malt tartness and noble hop bitterness just enough to keep the other flavors from overpowering and to enhance them.
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