Bitter Monk Belgian Style Double IPA
Anchorage Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
7.88
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Bitter Monk Belgian Double IPA is such a beer. Redolent of citrusy hop bittering and massive malt infusion, this is a beer to ponder, to sip, and, even for a monk, to dream. Why then is the monk so bitter? What provokes that sly smile? What is he wearing under that flowing robe? A triple-fermented beer gives him three times the mystery. Remember, anything worth doing is worth over doing. Nothing exceeds like excess. Even for the cloistered.
And what rough monk, his hour come round at last, slinks slowly toward Brussels to be reborn.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
@ RateBeer 100 for 100 event. Pale gold with a white head. Aroma of grapefruit, lemon, herbs, crackers oak, twigs. Light bodied for its strength but has sufficient presence to carry the hops. No overt alcohol but it's punchy. Citrus under ripe tropical fruit. Little if any funk until hints at end. Bitter herbal finish with bracken and oak. A gleeful slap in the face.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Batch #5, Nov. 2016. Tasted 19.03.2018. Pours a slightly hazy orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma of gooseberries, lemon, vinegar, grapefruit, wheat, forest floor and grass. Flavour of grass, grapefruit, rowanberries, pale malt, apricots, hay and hops. Soft mouth feel, full-bodied and medium bitterness. Like a sour tripel with some added bitterness. Complex or messy? Interesting adn fresh anyway.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
23 February 2019. (Tasting formerly known as) RBBWG. Cheers to all, thanks Kraddel for the hospitality! Clear pale golden, no head. Aroma of flowers, soap, grapefruit peel, hashish, unripe mango, apricot, apple peel, sherry, brett, lactic acid. Taste is medium fruity sour, quite lactic, notes of unripe fruits (apple, apricot) with flowery & wheaty accents; light to medium hoppy bitter then, grapefruit peel & mango, a bit peppery, whilst sourdough & yeast keep the sourness in shape. Dry, peppery hoppy finish, more bitter grapefruit peel, tart lactic acid & flowery touch, softly warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Interesting & well-made experiment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
23/02/2019 - bottle shared on BBGG @Kraddel's place. Clear light yellow, no head. Nose is malts, fruits, sour, some wood. Taste is sour, fruity, dry, wine, some yeast, fresh!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A hazed golden ipa with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with loads of citrusy floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, light Brett, very nice and rich. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light resinous floral hops, loads of Brett, ground cherries, very nice and smooth. Bottle at La Cuvée 2019.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample from bottle @ tasting formerly know as RBBWG 2019. F: medium, white, average retention C: pale gold, hazy. A: malty, bit sour fruity, herbal hops, brett, woody. T: malty backbone, herbal, peach, floral, bit vinous, sour fruity, grapes, medium to full body, medium carbonation, like Brutt DIPA for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at the bottle shop druid Street. A mostly clear golden orange coloured pour with a fine white head. Aroma is semi sweet. Light caramel, grapefruit skin, grassy citrus, pineapple, perfume notes. Light bubblegum. Flavour is composed of tangy bitter lemon, grapefruit, low bubblegum, clove, spicy citrus. Tangy citrus, canned pineapple. Interesting. Good stuff.,
Aromat brettowy na maksa, owocowe tez, sianowate, miniapteczne. W uscie bardziej wytrawna ipka, ma goryczke znow z brettami, spora. Rzeskie.
Upfront huge bretta punch that mellows out to a nicely dry citra forward Belgian mouthfeel ipa. Oak is somewhere in the back while the Chardonnay doesn't fuck anything up. Already sipped half of it down. Pretty smooth and hoppy.