Rowdy Monk
Hermit Thrush Brewery in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.26
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trapped (8300) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught @ The Bier & Cheese Collective, Astoria NY (3/16/23). Murky brown with faint copper highlights against the light, very small frothy beige head, woodsy, acidic aroma, medium carbonation, sour roasted malt taste with woodsy flavor, caramel at the end, thin body, long sour finish with caramel aftertaste. Well-covered alcohol content, quite sour though.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Undated can from Fort Point Market shelf, drunk 6/18/22. Clear ruddy-mahogany with deep cherry hues and a dark beige head that slowly fades to cover/ring. Strong, complex nose showing black pepper, molasses, prune, raisin, maybe even some smokey scotch. Light alcohol, not hot, with a solid base of dry caramel and plentiful, tart red fruits. Souring bacteria lingering, but not dominating. Vanilla, chalk/mineral-laden wine and more molasses as it continues to breath. Cherry, molasses, raisin, caramel, black pepper, strong mineral and strong lactic acidity with a bit of acetic acidity lingering. Vanilla and caramel lingering alongside moderate-to-strong sourness. Fantastically complex barrel notes without being overdone/dominant. Scotch and red wine in the background with lip-smacking caramel and raisin sweetness mostly balancing the strong acidity. Still a heavy brace of cringing acidity at first. Pretty incredible stuff, especially for its size. Doesn't drink like that at all - more in the range of 8-9%. Though there is some inevitable alcohol, it's not hot/sharp. Malts are excellent and barrel tannin helps contribute texture, as well.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Tan head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Warm oak, tart cherry and funk aromas. Tart with cherry and lactic funk front to back.... lasting dry oak finish. I'm not picking up much quad here - mostly an amped up (and well made) Flanders Red - rating as a red and not as a quad.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can picked up at the brewery. It pours murky deep red - brown with a small beige head. The nose is soft, juicy, Vimto, Dandelion & Burdock, vanilla, wood, tang, fruit cake and cherry. The taste is sweet - sour, tangy, fruit cake, mild acidity, light spice, cherry cola, cranberry, Dandelion & Burdock and some alcohol boost. Medium + body and fine carbonation. Bizarre, but sort of works!
Leighton (34941) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can shared in NH. Thanks to Scoopey. Pours murky brown with a creamy white head. The nose has some ripe plums, berries, light citric tang. Medium sweet flavor, moderately boozy, lots of tangy, ripe fruits. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish, some sticky sugars, more tart fruits, plum, berries. Not bad.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Rowdy Monk from Hermit Thrush Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This was poured into a chalice.
The appearance was a dark brown color with ruby red hues glossing around the sides of the glass. The head was a slim white foaminess that quickly dissipated and left no lacing.
The smell started off with sweet to sour raspberries opening up into light dark chocolate allowing some super light Belgian spices.
The taste took the sweet and the sour and added a nice little dry tartness and throwing in some cherries. The dark chocolate resides in the background. There’s a tad of a unique tart cherries to raspberry blend leading into the aftertaste and in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sipping quality about it. Carbonation runs low allowing the sourness to become the the harsh edge it should have from the \"sour\" side of the house.
Overall, cheers to Hermit Thrush for taking a classic Belgian style and adding their twist on it. Good job, nice late Summer sipper!