Black is Beautiful
Monument City Brewing Company
- From:
- Monument City Brewing Company
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 22, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 22, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Holy shit there's like 30 beers that are named "black is beautiful?" I'm not normally one to complain about appropriation or whatever but this strikes me as kinda incredibly cynical? Like at least in the early aughts when brewers were putting out minstrel show art on beers with names like "Dat be Funky" it was all openly exploitative, there was no pretense of political wokeness...
But, like I said, 30+ other brewers have done this. It's not like Monument City is particularly at fault. Marketing people chase trends, and pretending to care about racial justice is a trend right now, a very easy way to make people comfortable while they consume your products.
So, umm, judging the beer on its own merits: it pours very dark but limp. Like an older school RIS, I guess. Only, no, more still than those. Almost flat.
The aroma is sharp and very one-dimensional. As in, it kinda smells like I can only smell a little bit of it, like there's a silver of bittersour barley on one bit of my nostril but just total blankness on the rest. Weird, but what's there is pleasant: alcoholic, lightly floral.
Thank the lord, it tastes good. Sweet barley with light booze along with potpourri flowers up front, kind of a dull and watery middle, but then a nice finish that ties together the opening nodes with dark chocolate, with some pleasant ash on the aftertaste.
Aug 22, 2020But, like I said, 30+ other brewers have done this. It's not like Monument City is particularly at fault. Marketing people chase trends, and pretending to care about racial justice is a trend right now, a very easy way to make people comfortable while they consume your products.
So, umm, judging the beer on its own merits: it pours very dark but limp. Like an older school RIS, I guess. Only, no, more still than those. Almost flat.
The aroma is sharp and very one-dimensional. As in, it kinda smells like I can only smell a little bit of it, like there's a silver of bittersour barley on one bit of my nostril but just total blankness on the rest. Weird, but what's there is pleasant: alcoholic, lightly floral.
Thank the lord, it tastes good. Sweet barley with light booze along with potpourri flowers up front, kind of a dull and watery middle, but then a nice finish that ties together the opening nodes with dark chocolate, with some pleasant ash on the aftertaste.
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