Surrender Monkey
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

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From:
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
 
Delaware, United States
Style:
Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale
ABV:
4.1%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
2.8 | pDev: 7.14%
Reviews:
1
Ratings:
2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 23, 2011
Added:
Feb 28, 2008
Wants:
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Surrender Monkey is a Scottish-style Ale brewed by our brewer Brian Connery. The beer is brewed with four traditional Gruit spices; yarrow, mugwort, meadowsweet and camomile. The spices are steeped separately and the tea is then added to the beer pre-fermentation. Surrender Monkey is malty with a flowery nose displaying hints of honey and green apple. Brian fermented the beer with our propietary Dogfish yeast. He chose this style to give a shout-out to his own Scottish heritage and named the beer in honor of Groundskeeper Willie of "The Simpsons".
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Ratings by slvrmon82:
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Reviewed by slvrmon82 from Delaware

2.6/5  rDev -7.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 1 | overall: 2
This just went on tap at the brewpub and I am not sure where they were going with this one.

A mild hopped scottish ale seasonal with 4 traditional gruit spices. yarrow, mugwort, meadowsweet, and chamomile.

Ummmm.... I dont't even know where to start. I think this was a trial and probably error.

It pours a golden to red with almost no head. This is the problem. It is way uncarbonated.

The smell is almost like tea with a clover honey at the end.

The taste is very interesting. At first it is spicy then like chamomile (Cozytime Tea) then extremely sweet at the end.

Mouthfeel is downright awful. There is almost no carbonation and so there is almost nothing.

The drinkability is again not that good because it is an odd beer.

Also one of the lowest abv that dogfish has ever done. Got to experiment to find what works and this one doesn't.
Feb 28, 2008
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Rated: 3 by THECPJ from Delaware

Nov 23, 2011
Surrender Monkey from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating: 2.8 out of 5 with 2 ratings