Redfish Angry Monk Belgian Ale

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

Orange, hazy with no head. Sweet, corriander aroma. Spicy taste, some citrus. Finish is long and bitter. Good, but certainly not original.

Murky orange, sweet and spicy nose, coriander, fuel, cheap hops, perhaps. Flavor has bananas, scotch, sweet berries, really it’s quite good for the style.

Dark Orange. Medicines in the aroma along with burnt banana bread, bready malts, toffee, almonds and dark fruits (cherries and plums). Tastes of dark fruits, dark candy sugars and caramel, most flavors usually involved in the style. This just wasn’t big enough an it had a pretty thin mouthfeel.

22oz bottle Sassy flowers brown ale. The ORval of CO? not really, but a dry bitter beer, no brett detected, but idiosyncratic like Orval. Bitterness wains as it sits, a nutty malt takes over, lingering along the Vrain. Could some Vrain be in there? bottle was filled to the absolute brim after being sunmerged in the Vrain for 20min. I’d call the aroma dirty too for some reason, but that doesn’t mean its bad. A bit of smokeyness. The drear creeps in as I drink this beer. Thunder rumbles, Garth is sleeping, he musta bumped his head. I talked to a friend who’s a linguist, she said Angry can be a synonym for friendly prankster, but that doesn’t mean they mean the same thing. Maybe just astringency in the finish, but I like it nonetheless.

On tap: Amber clear under a small short lasting off white head. Low carb medium smooth body. Sweet caramel malty, citric zesty spicey and some doughy yeast flavours. Alcohol is very well masked Light predominantly bitter finish.

22 oz. bottle: no head, but moderate cabonation in the glass, and some lacing as I drink. Some floral, malty hints in the aroma. Flavor is complex, fruity yeast esters notes with some alcohol flavor evident, and candy sugar byproduct flavors. Nice mouthfeel, too. Aftertaste is bitter, dry and warm.

Apppearnce: this pours a clear amber color. Like all the beers I sampled at Redfish, this one too came with no head. The flavors of the beer are definitely in the genre of the trappist ales. you can taste the candy sugar a bit. For a brewpub's effort, this was a reasonable rendition of a belgian

Draught: Pretty decent dark Belgian style ale, on the light side ABV-wise for a Belgian but had the American-Belgian flavor. It must have, because my Bud drinking girlfriend hated it.