Founders Blushing Monk

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Hazed to lightly cloudy cranberry color. Couple fingers of what appear fizzy, but lasting bubbles. Syrupy raspberry to near fragrant soap scents. A hint of wheat and banana, but the floral components are a bit much for me. I keep looking for the alcohol in the nose, but don’t catch it. Rich and full in feel. Just enough zip to give it some life along with a bit of acidity to lighten the feel. It’s a nice warm end of summer day here and this one seems to complement the warm weather. I’m starting to feel the blush, but I am not detecting it in the flavor. Just a slight burn on the back of the tongue and a little lightheadedness. As this warms the flavors are showing a hint of alcohol, but in a liqueur type fashion. Raspberries and cream, with a little vanilla and touch of vodka. Not real tart, more acidic. This is a dangerous fruit beer. I wish I had this in High School, for no other reason than I liked fruit beer more then. Yeah, that’s why.

Aroma is like casked raspberries in a vanilla ice cream float,the aroma is smooth and contemplative,taste is slighty tart casked raspberries,with caramel and vanilla cream overtones. Body has a fizzy texture,tastes like a creamier NG Raspberry Tart,an absolutely dazzling fruit brew,the price excludes most of us in the middle class from getting more then one.

wow tart sour cherry-raspberry-cranberry feel to this one. very very dry almost wine-like mouthfeel. hints of lemon with some grapes. very very tart though. i thought that for the price, this should have been a LOT better but then again i’m the sucker that bought it.

22 oz bomber. Pours a purpleish red color with a medium pink head. Nice aroma of fresh raspberries and grape juice. Taste is full of fresh raspberries with a hint of grape juice. Tart finish with a slight alcoholic flavor. Very nice, yet overpriced.

Bottle from Capone’s and shared with Axilla. Great red color with soda like fizzy head that quickly went away. Raspberries came in strong and perfectly tart. It’s amazing this one can hide the alcohol so well. The price tag was high, but this is one I’m very glad I tried and wouldn’t hesitate to buy it again. Super.

The aroma is sweet almost like a soda pop. The appearance is dark red like a watery merlot or grape juice. The head is fizzy, purple/pink in color, fully diminishing. The body is clear. The initial flavor is moderate sweet, the finish about the same. The body is light, the texture watery, the carbonation a light fizzy. Is this really beer? This goes down very easy and would be very good with anything that was made with or marinated in a raspberry vingenerette.

Poured ruby red with a fluffy pinkish head. Strong aroma of raspberries. Tons of raspberry flavor. This can’t be over 12%. Well made!

Draft at Capone’s. Ruby magentaish pour with smallish light pink head that faded away quickly. The aroma was great, a very intense freshly picked raspberry aroma that was natural and not at all Jolly Rancherish. The palate was pretty hefty, somewhat sticky, with tons of raspberry flavor, plus a dollop of earthy yeasty hints. This one stayed pretty tart throughout, seeming to get a little sweeter toward the finish, definitelt sweeter than Sly Fox Black Raspberry. I’d really love to side-by-side this with NG Tart and the Sly Fox Black Raspberry. This one was outstanding.