Munkintie
Rekolan Panimo
- From:
- Rekolan Panimo
- Finland
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Ale
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.04 | pDev: 15.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 28, 2016
- Added:
- Jun 05, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.58/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
2.58/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
Brief impressions from a 50cl brown glass bottle served in Kuopio, Finland below:
A: Pale khaki colour head occupies ~85% of the glass. Fizzy and overly thin. Not creamy, full, or delicate. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. Retention is above average - ~3 minutes.
Body is a very dark copper with brown hues. I see no yeast or sediment.
Sm: Raisin. Licorice. Candi sugar. Belgian yeast. Unrefined sugars. Caramel. Syrupy amber and dark malts.
This mild aroma suggests a sweet beer with none of the elegant dark fruit notes you'd expect in a good Belgian ale.
T: A glimmer of plum. Faint prune. Raisin. Caramel. Bready biscuity Belgian yeast. Bready dark malts. Deep amber malts. Candi sugar. Malt syrups.
The fruit dominates, but it lacks the yeasty complexity and perfect balance of superior beers in the style. It's on the sweeter end for the style, and its constituent elements never come together to form a gestalt whole.
Mf: Syrupy, sticky, direly overcarbonated, and way too heavy and thick on the palate, with a bloated body. Poor overall presence on the palate. Fails to elevate the beer as a whole. At least it's smooth and wet, though, which complements the syrupy fruit notes nicely - even if that means it doesn't really adhere to style conventions.
O: A forgettable albeit likable attempt at a Belgian dark ale. I wouldn't bother with it again, but it's nice to see examples of this style available on the Finnish market. Its middling execution means it will fail to impress the discerning drinker, but we've all had worse. Of course, with Chimay available countrywide, I can't see why any beer maven would trifle with this.
Its overcarbonation is absolutely its biggest flaw, injecting the beer with an obnoxious prickly feel that accentuates the worst trait in the flavour profile - the off-putting raw saccharine sweetness.
C- (2.58) / Below Average
Jun 27, 2015A: Pale khaki colour head occupies ~85% of the glass. Fizzy and overly thin. Not creamy, full, or delicate. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. Retention is above average - ~3 minutes.
Body is a very dark copper with brown hues. I see no yeast or sediment.
Sm: Raisin. Licorice. Candi sugar. Belgian yeast. Unrefined sugars. Caramel. Syrupy amber and dark malts.
This mild aroma suggests a sweet beer with none of the elegant dark fruit notes you'd expect in a good Belgian ale.
T: A glimmer of plum. Faint prune. Raisin. Caramel. Bready biscuity Belgian yeast. Bready dark malts. Deep amber malts. Candi sugar. Malt syrups.
The fruit dominates, but it lacks the yeasty complexity and perfect balance of superior beers in the style. It's on the sweeter end for the style, and its constituent elements never come together to form a gestalt whole.
Mf: Syrupy, sticky, direly overcarbonated, and way too heavy and thick on the palate, with a bloated body. Poor overall presence on the palate. Fails to elevate the beer as a whole. At least it's smooth and wet, though, which complements the syrupy fruit notes nicely - even if that means it doesn't really adhere to style conventions.
O: A forgettable albeit likable attempt at a Belgian dark ale. I wouldn't bother with it again, but it's nice to see examples of this style available on the Finnish market. Its middling execution means it will fail to impress the discerning drinker, but we've all had worse. Of course, with Chimay available countrywide, I can't see why any beer maven would trifle with this.
Its overcarbonation is absolutely its biggest flaw, injecting the beer with an obnoxious prickly feel that accentuates the worst trait in the flavour profile - the off-putting raw saccharine sweetness.
C- (2.58) / Below Average
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