Hollerado Born Yesterday
Troubled Monk Brewery
- From:
- Troubled Monk Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 3.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 21, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 04, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.91/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
355ml can - a collaboration among the Canadian rock band Hollerado, local radio station 106.7 the Drive, and local pub Bo's Bar and Grill. Wow, that's a lot of, er, cooks (none with which I am actually familiar)! Oh, and the result is an apparently boozed-up Kölsch.
This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves some layered swollen rain cloud lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some muted pome fruitiness, white wine lees, and a bit of estery alcohol. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity breakfast cereal sweetness, apple puree, more yeasty green grapes, a touch of fresh-cut grassiness, and more pleasantly understated metallic and warming booziness.
The carbonation is fairly sedate in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess sidling its way in once things settle down a bit. It finishes off-dry, the robust cereal character doing well to linger like the champ that it is.
Overall, this is a rather well-made version of the style, with the 'crank it to, um, 7 (ish)!' wowee sauce factor expertly integrated into the whole. Tasty, easy to drink, and yeah, if I had a six-pack of this to kill all afternoon, it might very well ruin tomorrow - but at least I'd have fun tonight!
Jun 21, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves some layered swollen rain cloud lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some muted pome fruitiness, white wine lees, and a bit of estery alcohol. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity breakfast cereal sweetness, apple puree, more yeasty green grapes, a touch of fresh-cut grassiness, and more pleasantly understated metallic and warming booziness.
The carbonation is fairly sedate in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess sidling its way in once things settle down a bit. It finishes off-dry, the robust cereal character doing well to linger like the champ that it is.
Overall, this is a rather well-made version of the style, with the 'crank it to, um, 7 (ish)!' wowee sauce factor expertly integrated into the whole. Tasty, easy to drink, and yeah, if I had a six-pack of this to kill all afternoon, it might very well ruin tomorrow - but at least I'd have fun tonight!
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
So. This is, well, a bit of a dangerous proposition. It looks, smells and acts like a Kolsch. It's a bit thin in carbonation, but you get a nice combination ofgrass, pear and malt flavor. I found the extra alcohol to be sneaky (though it could have been the extra shots of around the fire Fireball that made me so sleepy the next day.)
Jun 17, 2017
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.63/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A bizarre collaboration (between a brewery, a restaurant, a radio station, and a semi-obscure Canadian alt-rock band) and a bizarre experiment--an easy-drinking kolsch kicked up to 7.1% ABV.
The beer itself is pretty refreshing, pretty tasty. But I'm not sure it needs to exist. I'd enjoy this more at regular strength, I think--the crispness and clean character of a typical kolsch are here, but they're undercut by a bit of heat. And instead of the brilliant clarity of a kolsch, the colour is a bit muted and, well, horse-urine-y. Not much head, either. Low-end of carbonation. Flavours of fresh apple and straw, some boozy sweetness. Nice enough, but Troubled Monk, if you're listening: how about just a plain-old kolsch next time?
Jun 07, 2017The beer itself is pretty refreshing, pretty tasty. But I'm not sure it needs to exist. I'd enjoy this more at regular strength, I think--the crispness and clean character of a typical kolsch are here, but they're undercut by a bit of heat. And instead of the brilliant clarity of a kolsch, the colour is a bit muted and, well, horse-urine-y. Not much head, either. Low-end of carbonation. Flavours of fresh apple and straw, some boozy sweetness. Nice enough, but Troubled Monk, if you're listening: how about just a plain-old kolsch next time?
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