Rogue Monk Madness

From an old note: bottle. orange-brown pour with large white head. dark fruit and molasses in the aroma. tangy, sweet and bitter with caramel and pine. long bitter finish. need to try again sometime.

Pours a two finger cream head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Cloudy amber/brown color. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Caramel nose. Flavor is some caramel sweetness but mostly a hoppy wood. Lingering hoppy aftertaste. $6.49 for a 22oz bottle from Manchester Wine and Liquors Manchester, CT.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a hazy with fine particulate softly carbonated and a fair lacing. The smooth aroma was brown malt and dark malt. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a biting aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of mild hops dark malt and brown malt. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

Had this awhile back. Not what I was expecting, but pretty nice... sweet start with a nice hoppy finish.

Pours amber with a thin white head. Smells of nuts, dark fruit, residual sugar, molasses. Tastes of roasted malt and spicy with lots of fruitiness on the finish. Not at all what I was expecting.

Red / orange brew that poured a weird coloured head that somehow appeared greenish brown, then just settled into a tan colour with ok retension and almost zero lacing. My second pour was much rougher and produced a nice thick cap that left a huge ammount of lacing everywhere. Aroma has lots of fresh fruit - mainly some dark nutty fruit and grapefruit, slight spice, good ammount of floral tones, slight malt, root beer? grape gum? I swear I keep noticing chocolate here and there...Taste is per the usual with Rogue - grapefruit and bitter and the usual malt content but this time the noticable malts were quite rich and roasted. The roasted malts that really come out when qutie warm but still get hammered down by the bitterness, which is becomming qutie a drag with these Rogue beers, I mean, does every single beer have to be like this? You get a Rogue in whatever style and it’s always heavily hopped to the point where one should wonder why every style needs this.....I digress...Nice sour and spicy bitter punch that really sticks to the roof of your mouth. Smooth beer that is just a bit thicker than medium bodied with tons of soft carbonation. If you let it get almost room temperature, then and only then can the malts dominate the aftertaste. Like most Rogue brews this one is packed with flavour and always highly drinkable and only recieves above average marks due to the complexity that can be found during a lengthy consumption period. I’ll add that the malts are quite tasty

"Better then average looking beer but kind of boring, brown no visible floaties, with half inch of head and had amazing retention. Aroma is sweet but also bitter there is very mild but very noticeable alcohol, the warmer it got a sour wood like aroma starts to appear. I think I just figured out that the sourness is hops. I like this aroma it’s not over powering or even that good its complex and interesting, I’ve been sniffing for 25 minuets now. Mouth feel is light and crisp and has some very nice carbonation. Tasty bitterness very mild hoppiness and great tasting malts, lots of earthy tones with a mild alcohol finish, light and refreshing sweet and crisp. I like this brew you can drink it any time but its still dark and flavor full. Review done while watching Canada’s worst handy man."

Bottle. This was something i love before i got a true taste of Belgian beers. Orange brown pour with a white head. Caramel, cherry, pear, and strong hoppy grapefruit. A decent beer just not much of a Belgian ale.