Founders Brewing Co. Blushing Monk

Blushing Monk
(has 5 batches)

 

Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Fruit Beer Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.38
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 20 Ticks (all batches): 207
Belgian-Style Ale Fermented with Pure Raspberries

Blushing Monk is brewed with a ridiculous amount of raspberries and with a Belgian yeast strain that keeps our head cellar operator from sleeping for a week. It pours a stunning deep berry red and, at 9.2% ABV, has a surprising kick. The perfect dessert beer, it can be enjoyed on its own or paired with fresh cheeses, fruit, cakes and more.
 
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tfontana (8004) reviewed
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
4 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pour from Candia Road Convenience. Appearance is hazy raspberry red with nice sparkle, finger-width off-white head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong sweet raspberries and yeast. Taste is strong sweet over tart raspberry and mild late yeast. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, average-to-lively carbonation, no sign of alcohol and finish as taste. Overall, probably groundbreaking for its day. Strong raspberry and they manage to get a good balance of sweet and tart. Enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2022 at 02:48
Mortlach (5138) ticked
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
4 years ago
6.4/10
Tried on 16 Mar 2022 at 19:39
jake65 (5818) ticked
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
4 years ago
7/10
Tried on 20 Feb 2022 at 16:50
SVD (7559) reviewed
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
4 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle shared, ruby beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, fruit, raspberries. Taste is the same, fruit, raspberries, sweet, light tart, very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2021 at 18:22
theplanck (7492) ticked
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
5 years ago
7.8/10
Yeah about as good as any fruit beer can be. Great full chewy body. Lots of complex flavour, the fruit tastes natural, the beer isn’t one dimensional. Great. Sterk ams
Tried from Can on 12 Sep 2021 at 13:36
TET (6950) reviewed
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
5 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
A red beer, a head is small and pink. Aroma has lots of raspberries, natural, some sourness. Taste has also huge amount of natural raspberries, some sweetness and light sourness. Medium bodied. Huge amount of raspberries, pretty nice.
Tried on 15 May 2021 at 09:32
mike_77 (15876) reviewed
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
5 years ago
5.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Clear and pink with thin head. Aroma and flavour have lots of sweet raspberry jam. There's a light sharpness too. Overall it's way too sweet and cloying.
Tried on 24 Apr 2021 at 13:46
radagast83 (13844) ticked
Blushing Monk (2019) from Founders Brewing Co.
5 years ago
8/10
Rate 9/17/11: Poured a blood red color, with a dark pink foamy head. Aroma was raspberries, raspberries, raspberries. The fruit level in this one was almost at lambic levels. The alcohol is pretty well masked, but it’s probably just because the raspberry
Tried on 06 Mar 2021 at 03:02
cellio (387) ticked
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
5 years ago
8/10
Tried on 26 Jan 2021 at 00:06
kappldav123 (9495) reviewed
Blushing Monk from Founders Brewing Co.
6 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Huge thanks to Erzengel for sharing! Bottle looks simple but really good. Beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts fruity-malty, quite sweet, fruity like berries, some raspberries, dry woody background. Finish still very sweet-malty. Interesting, but a bit too sweet for me.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2020 at 08:14
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