Chez Monieux
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.18
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bb (18428) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. reddish color with just a little whitish lacing. Dusty, cherry aroma. Tart, cherry flavor with backing lemon, green apple, and oak. Medium body. Tart/sour lingers with the fruitiness in balance. Acetic in background. Refreshing. Not bad.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear gold with orange hue and white head with a faint pink quality. The generous use of cherries showing up even before I get the first impression of smell or flavor. The aroma starts with a hint of cherry fruitiness that quickly becomes tart, sugar sweet-tart candy and mild funk in the background. The taste is much the same with a quick pulse of cherry sweetness then turning tart. The tart quality isn’t at the ‘all I can taste is tartness’ level. It graciously allows notes of sweet cherry fruit to shine through from time to time. It ends dry and refreshing.
notalush (7339) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks to beerbill for sharing (and double-thanks after discovering how much this stuff cost!) - clear red pour - moderately funky and acidic aroma, with some spice and cherry character that reminds me of christmas somehow - nice at tart, with mild acidity, a touch of phenolic character, and some mild funk on the back end - cheek-tingling acidity and cherry manifests in the finish - oak is present, but not overpowering - lacking a little bit of the leathery, earthy complexity I wanted, but still nice.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Shared by beerbill. Pours a completely clear reddish amber color. Aroma is light paint thinner and cherry cough syrup. Very artificial flavor sweetener flavor follows. Candy sour sweetness with a quickly fading flavor. Finishes with a cheap, inauthentic, acidic sourness. Very light bodied as well. Man, I love sour beer, and this was really a miss. I do not see too many upsides in this beer. It wont age and its not good fresh, comes off as a cheap knock-off lambic.
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Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtsey of ibrew2or3. Pours amber/red. Nose is filled with yeast and light cherry tone. The flavor has again a lot of yeast and oaky, giving a tart, lightly sugary, but very dry and acidic aftertaste. Really couldn’t get over the vinagry acidic taste. Overpriced.
JK (8181) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Some brett in the aroma and the flavor. Lots of yeast in the aroma and light cherry. The flavor however, is loaded with sweet cherry, like cherry pie filling, perhaps not that sweet. A little acidic. Sour for a fruit beer. Mildly sour. A bright red color. A very nice fruit beer. Thanks to BDR for sharing.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Gford217: Poured a light red color ale with a light pink bubbly head with some average retention and no lacing. Aroma consists of red wine and tart notes with some light sour cherries. Taste is a mix between some sour cherries, with some tart notes with loads of oak and some red wine notes. Average carbonation with limited funk notes when I was expecting a lot more from the description. Overall, I though this was easily drinkable and maybe a bit light for the kind of beer it would like to be.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pinkish and hazy. Some cherry and light balsalmic. Tart, bracing cherry note. A hint of balsalmic, and some late sweetness.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Chez Monieux from Alpine Beer Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Little rosy rim around pink-orange beer with a little haze. Strange chemical smell, acetone? Faintly fruity, unclear which fruit. Sweetness, which clashes with the acid character; sweet corn, and cherry - but not coming over as natural. Smooth - too smooth as there’s quite some acidburn buried below. I’m not convinced - rather afraid.