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Troubled Monk Brewery
- From:
- Troubled Monk Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 8.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 5.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 21, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 21, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.79/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - nice! The yin to my hop-fiend yang is the Belgian Strong Dark Ale, and I'm not sure that any other Alberta brewery has attempted this style before. Oh wait - Blindman. Still.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some random streaky and stringy lace around the glass as it quickly wafts off.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, besotted raisins, some estery and spicy yeastiness, further dark fruity notes, and some very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and biscuity caramel malt, a muddled black stone fruitiness, faded yeast, candi sugar, an earthy spiciness, a mild musty under the basement stairs thing, and more weak leafy and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually fairly smooth, with only a hint of alcohol ingress exacting a minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, yeast, and robust frootiness making a day of it.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the style, good and malty and fruity. If I had to nitpick (and I do, duh), it's that the whole deal isn't particularly dark - ah well, I guess 3 out of 4 (attributes in the name) ain't half bad, eh?
Mar 28, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some random streaky and stringy lace around the glass as it quickly wafts off.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, besotted raisins, some estery and spicy yeastiness, further dark fruity notes, and some very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and biscuity caramel malt, a muddled black stone fruitiness, faded yeast, candi sugar, an earthy spiciness, a mild musty under the basement stairs thing, and more weak leafy and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually fairly smooth, with only a hint of alcohol ingress exacting a minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, yeast, and robust frootiness making a day of it.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the style, good and malty and fruity. If I had to nitpick (and I do, duh), it's that the whole deal isn't particularly dark - ah well, I guess 3 out of 4 (attributes in the name) ain't half bad, eh?
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