Monkey Wrench
Daleside Brewery in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.51
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A powerful smooth strong ale to suit all tastes. Monkey Wrench is mid brown to ruby in hue with aromas of fruit hops malt and roast malt together with some sweetness.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
A hoppy ale in aroma and to an extent in character but negated by its strength.
Tried
on 31 May 2012
at 17:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hand pulled pint at a Spoons in Tamworth before a Grimsby Town night match on 27th March 2012. Ruby/mid-brown coloured brew with an off-white head of closely knit bubbles. Aroma was both malty and fruity. Taste wise: it was again malty and fruity, a drier hop bitterness comes late on the palate but this is a primary a malty brew. Body depth is good and the alcohol sits well within the whole feel.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2012
at 07:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Clear nutty brown with a big beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, nutty and dried fruit. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. Oily. 050412
Tried
on 05 Apr 2012
at 11:14
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Bon Accord. Brown colour, off-white head. Aroma is slight chocolate malts, bit of caramel. Flavour of chocolate and caramel and a bit of fruits. Average.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2011
at 04:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear dark toffee with a good coat of beige head. Very fruity aroma with some cocoa and toffee, nutty Sherry. Slightly oily body. Sweet dried fruit and toffee, dry woody finish. First few sips I was thinking around 2.5 but this really grew on me as I drank it. Gets no favours from being bottled.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2011
at 05:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Cereal grains and light molasses on the nose. Clear ochre brown, thin yellow head. Sweet medium roasted malt and caramel flavor initially, turns slightly tart with an addition of lemon to the malt, and finishes with a walnut and lemon zest finish. Fantastic transitions. Complete brown ale, and actually more ABA than strong ale or EBA.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2010
at 19:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Clear brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is malt. caramel, some hops and chocolate. Flavor of biscuits, some roasted malt, dried fruits. A little thin and easy to drink. Quite low carbonation. Short aftertaste. Nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2010
at 01:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brun. Fudgeig, torkad frukt, maltig doft. Maltig, rund, honung och rostad malt smak. Lång rostad eftersmak.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2010
at 13:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (BB 02/2010)
Deep amber-brown color, decent brown head. Aroma of fruits and caramel. Flavor is nutty-caramelly with some woody, salty hoppyness. Very typical English strong ale.
Deep amber-brown color, decent brown head. Aroma of fruits and caramel. Flavor is nutty-caramelly with some woody, salty hoppyness. Very typical English strong ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2009
at 10:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50cl.Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, dark berry, raisin, prune, date. Flavor is light heavy sugar - berry sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090620]
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2009
at 10:18