Transition IPA
Troubled Monk Brewery
- From:
- Troubled Monk Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.25%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 3.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 18, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.55/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - wow, their Pesky Pig is such a great pale ale, can a slight step up to a pseudo-IPA (5.2% ABV, really) work? Remember Alley Kat, folks!
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a tinge of biscuity toffee, muddled dark orchard fruity notes, subtle generic citrus pith, and a decent leafy, floral, and wet Pine-Sol green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a subtle earthy spiciness, some mild extraneous sugary essences, ephemeral citrus peel, and some now gentile herbal, leafy, and floral hop bitterness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand, via its plebeian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, the inherent hops too timid to raise a ruckus at this point. It finishes off-dry, a nice lingering malt putting the boots to any idea of this as a real live IPA boy.
Overall, I get that the name means something here - 'transition' implying that they're on the way to somewhere better or more preferable. So why release this at all? I'm experiencing the comparable weak sauce heebie jeebies that I got when the aforementioned E-Town craft brewery did the same damned thing a few cycles back.
Nov 20, 2016This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a tinge of biscuity toffee, muddled dark orchard fruity notes, subtle generic citrus pith, and a decent leafy, floral, and wet Pine-Sol green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a subtle earthy spiciness, some mild extraneous sugary essences, ephemeral citrus peel, and some now gentile herbal, leafy, and floral hop bitterness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand, via its plebeian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, the inherent hops too timid to raise a ruckus at this point. It finishes off-dry, a nice lingering malt putting the boots to any idea of this as a real live IPA boy.
Overall, I get that the name means something here - 'transition' implying that they're on the way to somewhere better or more preferable. So why release this at all? I'm experiencing the comparable weak sauce heebie jeebies that I got when the aforementioned E-Town craft brewery did the same damned thing a few cycles back.
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
In terms of ABV, this is on the milder side of IPAs. And given Troubled Monk's taste for the citrusy side of the genre (the fruit bomb that is Pesky Pig), I'm surprised that this one unexpectedly goes for a pretty straightforward piney/herbal/bitterness. Decent malt base, and quite tasty, but I have to say that this is pretty nondescript for a brewery I've come to expect great things from.
Nov 19, 2016
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