Burning Sky Brewery Raspberry Monolith

Raspberry Monolith

 

Burning Sky Brewery in Firle, East Sussex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Special
Score
6.98
ABV: 7.8% IBU: - Ticks: 25
This version of Monolith was blended with two other mixed fermentation dark beers from our barrel vault. Further ageing on 300 grams per litre of fresh raspberries has created a beer that is full of rich berry flavours, pleasing acidity and warming alcohols. This beer is lively – chill well and pour carefully.
 

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4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Gusher ! Pours dark redbrown, unclear. Big, stable creamy head with yeast sediment due to the gushing issue. Smell is strangely yeasty - and not in a good way. Taste is peppery, raspberry, phenolic. Polyphenolic. Dry, bitter, mildly tart ending. Burnt chocolate in the late finish. Not good at all.

Tried on 17 May 2021 at 09:56


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Raspberry pips, bitter, sour and nice balanced fruityness. Deep ruby color.

Tried on 23 Nov 2020 at 08:53


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren. Pours dark brown with a small offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light caramel, little sourness, wood, sweet raspberry. Flavor is light sweet, light sour, malt, light wood, tart fruit, raspberry fruit tannins. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, dry finish. 050920

Tried on 05 Sep 2020 at 13:54


6.5

Tried on 22 Jul 2020 at 19:36


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Firkin Alehouse Folkestone tasting December. dark beer. wow that's some raspberry some funk. some Brett. good level of sourness. so full. so drinkable. delicious. some chocolate. wow. that's really good. like licking a slag heap with raspberry vines growing on it.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2019 at 16:32


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Slightly hazy amber brown color. Smells like a raspberry patch with some baked cake. Nice raspberry character but I detect some plastic character. Very malty, but simple palate

Tried on 29 Nov 2019 at 08:46


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

30th Sep 2019, Shrewsbury Beer Exchange in Chez Sophie. Cheers Mike for this 0.75 litre bottle; BB 28th Mar 2025. Dark ruby body, beige head with a red/pink hue, floaters for your teeth to find. Obviously raspberries are to the fore in both the nose and taste, semi-sour rather than bitter or tart. Reminded me of wine with the vinegar fly in it!

Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2019 at 08:50


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

75cl bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Sep 19. Pours dark with a reddish hue, frothy off-white head. Good raspberry nose, darkened malt. Fairly high carbonation. Taste is crisp, wild sour, with a smooth malty raspberry character, a touch vinous. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2019 at 07:29


7.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Murky dark brown with no head. Aroma and flavour have some tart red fruits. Blackcurrants. Floral. Dry. Pair with a rich dessert.

Tried on 31 Aug 2019 at 16:16


7

Tried on 25 Aug 2019 at 16:19