Redfish Angry Monk Belgian Ale

Formerly brewed at Redfish New Orleans Brewhouse
Style: Belgian Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Hazy amber pour wearing a light white film. Light doughyness from the yeast contrasts with solventy phenolic off notes from the aroma. Highly oxidized in mouth where cardboard beginnings turn into penny endings while light caravienna is disturbed by painting flavours. Almost flat bodied, slightly oily and dull texture.

Clear red pour with a ring of offwhite lace. Very unpleasant aroma of varnish and nails polish. Flavor of varnish, alcohol and sweetness. The palate is light and watery with low carbonation. This was a drain pour, now I know why the monk is angry.

Amber caramel, with only a thin veil of lace.
It smelled like a ’70s era beauty salon, industrial strength nail polish and wet, frizzy, over-permed hair. Also throw in there some kind of spirit varnish or lacquer. Pe-eww.
Stale, acrid and without any body or appeal whatsoever. I really hope we got a bad bottle because if this was what the brewer was going for, it wasn’t worth the trouble of bottling it. Only a few sips were needed to decide that this one was a drainer. A few other guys at the tasting did the same with their sample too.

The Lure:
Candied apricots, bananas and cherries battle with a rubbery component. Caramel maltiness clashes with a tired spiciness.

The Festivities:
Dim flavors and lame carbonation cannot entice. Peaches and apples follow up into a slightly hop bitter finish. Yeast touches everything, and most don’t appreciate the proximity.

Transcendence:
Immaturity won’t solve anything.

looks like cloudy iced tea. smells of banana sugar and yeast with a white grape note. taste is dry unsweet iced tea and not much else. if you have drunk warm iced tea you have had this beer. gah. finish is vanilla wafers and banana. not a good beer. 3 5 3 1 7 1.9 rerate: a vastly improved beer. malty dough like sweetness mixed well with the slight banana with a good yeast flavor. the fruit notes are light and complimentary. i’m glad i gave this another shot. i don’t know if the beer changed or i did 3 6 6 3 12

Tap at brewpub. Nose-candied bananas. Taste-all banana, cheap wheat, lactic acid, clove. Way, way, way too much banana and too little of everything else. Yuck.

Draught at Redfish in Boulder. Pours golden amber with to copper with a thin creamy tan head. Lined lacing. Banana yeast and clove dominate the aroma. Yeast and banana, clove and nutmeg flavors. Medium bodied and fizzy lively carbonation.

A hazy red beer with no head. The aroma is malty with notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel and a dry spicy end.