Monks' Reserve Ale
Spencer Brewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.58
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Spencer Monks' Reserve Ale is a classic Trappist Quadruple ("Quad") in the Belgian tradition. This Quad is fragrant, robust and full-bodied, mahogany in color and crowned with a dense, tan, frothy head. Its malt-forward profile yields to a warm finish.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at home, by the fire, 5th February 23. Pours a chestnut brown, a lacing of head. Aroma is nutty, caramel, malts. Taste is sweet, complex, yeast, dark fruits, caramel, malts, bitter and sweet: authentic to the style and very good
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2023
at 20:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pours a deep brown colour wirh a rocky brown head that has little retention. Aromas''s of sweet malts, dried fruit, Belgian yeast, brown sugar. Retronasal it's sweetish, toffee, fruit, light spices. Flavour is above moderate sweet, light bitter. Medium bodied. Warming alcohol. Good carbonation. Long finish with increasing bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Bierbaum (De Pijp)
on 17 Nov 2022
at 20:54
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle, 10.2%. Brown sugar aroma. Cloudy dark brown colour. Good stable creamy off-white head. The flavour is sweet and spicy. Distinct spicy maltiness. Warming alcohol finish with tobacco and more spicy malts. Creamy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2022
at 17:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
If this is good I will buy more for aging. Smell-weak malt, caramel, butrned sugar, plums, cake, honey, nice. Foam-thin, caramel, sweetness, alcohol, bitterness, and more caramel, burned sugar, warmth. Head is medium-sized, brown-white color, fine. Sticks. Appearance- brewer bottle cap, classic label, hazy dark ruby color, seems some sediment in. From - snifter Taste-caramel, bitterness, sweetness, burned sugar, malt, alcohol. Very nice one, I will definitely go back to buy more as the brewery is closing down. Good stuff, rounded up score a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2022
at 17:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle.Dark mahogany colour with small beige head.Aroma of roasted caramel malt and dark dried fruit,nice warming and sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2022
at 13:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
One of their better beers. The aromas are dark malt, caramel malt, candy sugar, wine and a touch of raisins. Flavors are somewhat similar to nose, a little more sweet than bitter, with just right carbonation to balance. Finish is sweet going bitter and slightly boozy.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Aug 2022
at 01:03
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2022
at 00:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber beer, thick lively head. Smells of toasty malt, dried fruit, caramel with a boozy waft to it. Flavour follows suit. Lots of malt, a bit of zestiness, dried fruit again, some toffee, considerable boozy hit to it. Not properly burny (to my taste) but definitely demands respect. No guzzling!
Tried
on 01 Jul 2022
at 19:10
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Medium roasted, caramel and chocalate aroma. Nearly black, medium and short offwhite head. High sweetness, with bitter and dry finish. Full body. Stoul-like.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2022
at 11:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
11.2 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown / near-black with a medium tan head. Aroma dark dried fruits, molasses, and toasted nuts — and also more roasted than a typical quad. Flavour is not exactly convincing — there's sweet dark dried fruits, burnt molasses, and some candi sugar. The Belgian yeast isn't expressed all that well, and it's on the sweeter side. Not like an authentic Belgian quad, but a solid enough sweet strong ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2022
at 06:28