Monnikbosbier
Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako in Bogaarden, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
5.73
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Herbal, a bit citrussy, light sweet. Good but a bit unbalanced.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Monnikbosbier from Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Before the still very local Sako brewery began dabbling in - sometimes strange - lambic experiments, they (like Herberg) brewed small-scale traditional Belgian ales, and this Monnik Bosbier is one of them. Oddly enough, the label says "brewed for Sako brewery", which worries me a bit - does the "for" means that this was actually brewed some place else? Anyway: thick and frothy, snow white, shred-lacing, moussey, dense and stable head on an initially very lightly hazed, pure golden blonde robe with pale orangey tinge and disparate sparkling, more hazy and a tad more orangey with sediment. Rather unappealing aroma of ripe banana, overripe pineapple, overcooked broccoli (DMS and even strongly so), overripe pear, bath foam somewhere, pale honey, candy apple, sugared potato mash somehow (!), clove, coriander, iron (and quite heavily so in the end, as confirmed by the classic 'hand test'), rotten sugar beet, powder sugar, hints of low quality calvados, rubber and grass. Sweetish onset, overripe pear and overripe pineapple returning amidst cooked apple and banana ester, prickly carbonation with minerally effects, iron showing up before the middle with added metallic effect, rounded mouthfeel; alcohol too is noticeable early on and even astringent before its time. Cereally pale malt sweetishness in the middle with powder sugar-like residual sweetness on top and wheat slickness below, phenolic spicy elements (clove, parsley) join in towards the finish and then a floral, grassy hop bitterish note tries to add a bit of balancing dryness - but fails. Coriander soapiness sits somewhere in between all that overripe yellow fruit, but the DMS factor proves stronger, ruining the few redeeming qualities that were there with its cooked cabbage-like effects; the worst, however, is still to come at that point, in the form of very badly hidden, 'graanjenever'-like, astringent and even heating alcohol, adding a wryness dominating the finish and making the whole experience even less pleasant than it already was. A tripel can and should have a soothing alcohol glow, but not this obvious... I have a few of Sako's new lambic experiments in my collection at this moment and I am eager to dive into them, but one thing is for sure, and that is the fact that I will happily pass on their top-fermented beers from now on - this is the second time those severely disappoint me. This Monnik Bosbier, already a sweet and coriandered cliché tripel in its very conception, is a complete mess, with an overdose of that dreaded DMS, metallic effect due to added iron, rotten fruit aromas and obnoxiously wry alcohol - in fact this beer could be used in zythologist classes as a textbook example of all the technical flaws one can encounter in a beer. If this was indeed brewed by another brewery for Sako, then I recommend them to end the contract immediately and start trying to make something interesting out of it themselves. Idle hope, I know.
wyzzywyz22 (5889) ticked Monnikbosbier from Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako 2 years ago
Bierridder (4318) ticked Monnikbosbier from Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako 3 years ago
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Monnikbosbier from Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of ripe apples, pale malt. Taste of rotten fruits apples, dull hops, meh...
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 3
Apfelig alkoholischer Beginn. Milde Herbe, muffig, der Apfel verfolgt einen. Nein. 8/5/6/5//5
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Monnikbosbier from Brouwerij-Stokerij Sako 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
5/IX/20 - 33cl bottle, shared @ Sako brewery, BB: n/a (2020-856) Thanks to ElManana+1 for driving and sharing today’s beers!
Clear pale blond beer, small creamy white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very yeasty, lots of banana, bit oxidized, some almonds, sweet impression, grains. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and sugary start, pretty oxidized, some marzipan notes, way too sweet, followed by a chemical unpleasant bitterness, very yeasty, not good. Aftertaste: a bit fruity, very yeasty, banana, some banana peel, and still way way too sweet.