Aardmonnik / Earthmonk
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.87
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Due to its authenticity, Earthmonk received as little sugar as possible during bottle conditioning in order to preserve all original aromas and flavours. This beer comes with little carbonation and a mini head. Is best served at cellar temperature and poured generously, meaning from a hight of approximately 15 to 20 CM, in an upright standing tulip glass. A big bubbled head will quickly make place for the Earthmonk coming alive!
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9/10
Tried
on 01 Aug 2015
at 16:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Kulminator, finally caught it. Brown pour, small head. Aroma of red grape, oak and milk sour. Taste is long, weird and hard to pinpoint. With wine, vanilla, subtle wild sour oak. There’s a lot going on with this beer, strange and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2015
at 15:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Many thanks to Rian for sharing this 2007 Vintage. Intense sourish woody nose. The beer starts nice earthy and sour. Hints of malty sweetness on a great sourish but still smooth body. Fresh, easy to drink though with a nice depth. Sourish-fresh, earth, dark cherries, no bitterness. Great long sourish earthy dark aftertaste. Great!
Tried
on 11 Jun 2015
at 12:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Vintage bottle from spacecoyote for free beer week many thanks! Pours flat reddish brown. Huge wonderful nose of toffee, dark fruit and vinegar. Tastes of cherry, plums, vinegar, red wine, toffee, tobacco, and citrus. Quite tart and semi syrupy. Lovely lingering sourness. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2015
at 21:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured a dark reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma of vinous fruit and caramel malt. Medium body, flavour of the aroma and sour end.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2014
at 12:57
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
An innovative twist on the ’oud bruin’ genre, which normally is not spiced, but this one apparently is. Yellow tanned, thin and quickly dissipating head, colour deeply mahogany brown; complex and powerful aroma of raisins, oak, milk chocolate, passion fruit, coffee grounds, candied dates, medium dry sherry, hazelnuts, sour cream, wine vinegar; taste is deliciously complex, exotic fruits, spicy accents, supple and deep malt basis, the sweetishness of which is balanced against the lactic acidity very cleverly. This is truly an addition to the age-old genre of ’oud bruin’ and one of the most interesting beers I’ve had from this exciting brewery. Note that this rating concerns the original version, not the re-release of it in 2016, about which I heard mixed opinions...
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2014
at 06:04
7/10
Tried
on 30 Jun 2014
at 10:28
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle, 2008 vintage, thanks to Alen!! Pours deep mahogany ruby with very little head; an initial bubbly head gives way to a tiny mist of beige lacing along with a ring. Decent lacing nevertheless. Aroma is pretty light overall, presenting an interesting mix of quad characteristics; chocolate, fig, prune, some vinous qualities, a bit of tart cherry. Flavor follows, with some initial sweetness and hints of dark sugars and fig, drying out and becoming lightly tart cherry, oak, vanilla, tannins, ruby port. Dry finish with very light funk, basement flavors coming through at the end. Kind of wine like in mouthfeel, no real carbonation, but still rich and full bodied. Quite the interesting beer, actually.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2014
at 19:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a medium frothy tan head that diminishes quickly to nothing. The aroma is raisin, caramel, and vinegar. Thin mouth feel with a strong funk, caramel, and light dryness in the finish. Vey good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2014
at 16:05
9/10
Tried
on 16 Dec 2013
at 21:18