Brut of All Evil
Troubled Monk Brewery

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From:
Troubled Monk Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Brut IPA
ABV:
7.6%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.26 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Mar 11, 2019
Added:
Mar 10, 2019
Wants:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.26/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - I have it on good account that this is a different Brut IPA than the collab that these guys did with Blindman a little while back.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden straw colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent Swiss cheese profile lace around the glass as it steadily recedes.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, saltine crackers, a bit of green pea pod vegetal character, and some plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, some faint domestic citrus peel, a damp minerality, more more understated leafy, herbal, and weak piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing any sort of commotion at this particular juncture. It finishes well, dry, duh, with the malt ceding the floor to a dull void.

Overall - yeah, I really don't get what the big fucking deal is with this 'style'. To me, it's all about sacrificing flavour for a soul-free dryness. I know people like this, and I make a hard turn when I encounter them, so maybe it's time that I do the same for this kind of misguided mockery of a brew.
Mar 11, 2019