Ormeau Brewing Company Monk's Beer

Monk's Beer

 

Ormeau Brewing Company in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
6.54
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 6
Belgian beers are often associated with high ABV and strong flavour however this isn’t always the case. The Trappist Monks often brewed a light refreshing beer for themselves with the same yeast defining character and traditional ingredients but in lighter and refreshing quantities. It makes sense. They can’t be overindulging when there is so much praying to do. Amen.
 

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Tried on 05 Jan 2025 at 14:57


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Cloudy gold with a short head. Aroma of yeasty citrus. Flavour is grain and yeast, fruity citrus, dry grains, a little yeast on the finish.

Tried on 25 Oct 2024 at 21:41


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

15th June 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. A very light haze on this gold beer, tidy bubbly pale cream colour head, doesn't last that long. Light palate, mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light malts, a fair bit of grain but it never gets that annoying for me and it delivers a decent sweetness. Light but bright and crisp pine into a modest and ripe citrus. A light and crisp finish. Beer is a fascinating fucker is it not? On paper, there is not that much to get excited about here but this beer has that hard to define drinkability that lifts it out of the morass of bland beer averageness that pervades so many beers of this style and abv. All that said, if I was a monk I would want something a lot more robust than this to make me forget what I had given up to become one of the last devotees of a long outgrown superstition. No? Just me then!

Tried on 15 Jun 2024 at 16:31


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

13/6/2024. Can shared by Colin, cheers. Pours very slightly hazy pale gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma is herbal, citrus, fruity, grassy, flowers, hint of bubblegum. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness, light tart edge. Moderate body, average carbonation.

Tried from Can on 13 Jun 2024 at 16:01


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Can at home, picked up in KWM Wines Kilkeel, 02/06/24. Almost clear golden blonde with a good sized white head that thins to a swirl in time. Nose is straw, grains, herb, hedgerow, grass, mellow citric peel, yeast esters. Taste comprises grass, hedgerow, lemon rind, herb, yeast esters, toasted grains, mellow dusty hop presence. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Refreshing enough simple Belgo style fodder.

Tried from Can on 02 Jun 2024 at 18:36


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at woodworkers. Pours golden, nose is toffee, floral, citrus, taste is sweet, floral, light spice.

Tried on 11 Nov 2022 at 20:42