Black Alligator
MONYO Brewing Co.
- From:
- MONYO Brewing Co.
- Hungary
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 10.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 24, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
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Reviewed by monkist from Hungary
4.78/5 rDev +22.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.78/5 rDev +22.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
This is an exceptionally great farmhouse ale/ spicy saison from Monyó! They say it is made with three kinds of yeast, juniper and a West-African Alligator Pepper that gives it slightly citrusy, spicy taste, dark but without the roasted malts.
Well this is great! Has a very exciting smell, very fresh and inspiring, kind of herbal and even you sense some incense and wood in the nose and taste. You drink it and just can't get enough, would like to decipher this taste that is slightly sour, complex in its spiciness and absolutely without the usual porter/stout body - it is a really nice farmhouse ale! I can recommend this proudly to anyone, a worldwide standard, outstanding ale!
Jan 24, 2018Well this is great! Has a very exciting smell, very fresh and inspiring, kind of herbal and even you sense some incense and wood in the nose and taste. You drink it and just can't get enough, would like to decipher this taste that is slightly sour, complex in its spiciness and absolutely without the usual porter/stout body - it is a really nice farmhouse ale! I can recommend this proudly to anyone, a worldwide standard, outstanding ale!
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dark brown color with tan head. Aroma is yeasty and spicy with some herb notes. Taste follows yeasty, peppery, spicy with a herbal bitterness on the finish. Light body, quite dry with some warming alcohol as it goes down. Overall it's an interesting take on the saison style.
Mar 10, 2017
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
4.18/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A fantastic brew; there is no English on the label so I'll have to trust that it has been catagorized correctly here. :-)
9% ABV is clearly marked, however, so this isn't a light starter beer. It is pitch black, and pours quite foamy.
The nose is yeasty then malty.
Very nice mouthfeel. Not much alcohol burn. Loads of malt/ molassess flavors. Slight licorice or vanilla notes, perhaps.
Dec 21, 20169% ABV is clearly marked, however, so this isn't a light starter beer. It is pitch black, and pours quite foamy.
The nose is yeasty then malty.
Very nice mouthfeel. Not much alcohol burn. Loads of malt/ molassess flavors. Slight licorice or vanilla notes, perhaps.
Reviewed by staubot from Canada (MB)
3.58/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Day 17 of the 2016 Craft BeerAdvent calendar. Calendar seems to be on a streak of extra strong beers. Nice to find one from Budapest, don't think I’ve had one of these since I lived in Europe. The rare country brewery and nice presentation was still enjoyable to find.
Wouldn’t say it looked black, very deep root beer brown with a decent head that settles to a film and offers some lacing.
Spicy subdued liquorice fruity alcohol scent. Taste much like expected from the smell with some more yeastiness then Id got from the scent and maybe some roasted coffee.
Smooth pleasant carbonation trickles along the tongue as this one goes down.
Dec 18, 2016Wouldn’t say it looked black, very deep root beer brown with a decent head that settles to a film and offers some lacing.
Spicy subdued liquorice fruity alcohol scent. Taste much like expected from the smell with some more yeastiness then Id got from the scent and maybe some roasted coffee.
Smooth pleasant carbonation trickles along the tongue as this one goes down.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.8/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
330ml bottle, day 17 of the 2016 Craft BeerAdvent calendar - a 'black saison', and a rare new country tick for yours truly, neat!
This beer pours a near-black, deep brown colour, with fuzzy orange cola base edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some roiling sea froth lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of roasted nuts, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser spicy wheatiness, some strange anise/mint edginess, earthy yeast, dried dark orchard fruit, a hint of bittersweet chocolate, pepper, and a sense of estery alcohol warmth. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some ephemeral free-agent ashiness, mixed black stone fruit, cocoa-ensconced mints (at Yuletide - no way!), further indistinct spicy notes, licorice-laced black coffee, a weird green resinous character, and some tame earthy and gently phenolic yeastiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plainly subservient frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, maybe a bit of that exotic spiciness taking a very minor toll here. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa-tinged mixed malts still parrying the lingering muddled spiciness. Still no real showing of the 18-proof booze - I'm starting to get a tad worried.
Overall, this is one batty bird, in terms of parsing everything that is going on in it. I guess that's what happens when you add something like juniper and fancy-schmancy Alligator Peppers to the mix. Once I settled in, and stopped thinking too hard (or at all, really) about writing, it really started to grow on me. How do you say 'cheers' in Hungaria (you know, that other 'garia')?
Dec 18, 2016This beer pours a near-black, deep brown colour, with fuzzy orange cola base edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some roiling sea froth lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of roasted nuts, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser spicy wheatiness, some strange anise/mint edginess, earthy yeast, dried dark orchard fruit, a hint of bittersweet chocolate, pepper, and a sense of estery alcohol warmth. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some ephemeral free-agent ashiness, mixed black stone fruit, cocoa-ensconced mints (at Yuletide - no way!), further indistinct spicy notes, licorice-laced black coffee, a weird green resinous character, and some tame earthy and gently phenolic yeastiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plainly subservient frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, maybe a bit of that exotic spiciness taking a very minor toll here. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa-tinged mixed malts still parrying the lingering muddled spiciness. Still no real showing of the 18-proof booze - I'm starting to get a tad worried.
Overall, this is one batty bird, in terms of parsing everything that is going on in it. I guess that's what happens when you add something like juniper and fancy-schmancy Alligator Peppers to the mix. Once I settled in, and stopped thinking too hard (or at all, really) about writing, it really started to grow on me. How do you say 'cheers' in Hungaria (you know, that other 'garia')?
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle poured into tulip 28/10/16
A not quite black, deep cola edge, short lived finger of foam leaves no lace
S licorice, some hard to place fruity notes, almost has a minty thing going on, spice I can't place, I'm struggling to place anything to be honest shes a bit of an odd duck. Has an odd yeast profile, peppery, maybe a hint of chewing gum lingering in the background
T chocolate syrup is added to the spicy, yeasty, odd ball mix, it kinda works but ends up on the bizarre side of things
M not the weight I expected for a dark 9%er, bubbles fluff it up, a very thin slick film on the palate, spicy herbal finish just keeps going
O one of those beers that I never really wrapped my head around or knew what I was drinking, "Black Saison" is about all the info I get from the label
Something different anyways and easy to down for 9% but a little perplexing at times. I think this ones a country tic for me and I don't come by those everyday so I'm glad I got the chance
Oct 29, 2016A not quite black, deep cola edge, short lived finger of foam leaves no lace
S licorice, some hard to place fruity notes, almost has a minty thing going on, spice I can't place, I'm struggling to place anything to be honest shes a bit of an odd duck. Has an odd yeast profile, peppery, maybe a hint of chewing gum lingering in the background
T chocolate syrup is added to the spicy, yeasty, odd ball mix, it kinda works but ends up on the bizarre side of things
M not the weight I expected for a dark 9%er, bubbles fluff it up, a very thin slick film on the palate, spicy herbal finish just keeps going
O one of those beers that I never really wrapped my head around or knew what I was drinking, "Black Saison" is about all the info I get from the label
Something different anyways and easy to down for 9% but a little perplexing at times. I think this ones a country tic for me and I don't come by those everyday so I'm glad I got the chance
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