Terrapin Side Project Monks Revenge Double IPA

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Athens, Georgia USA

22 oz. bottle. Poured clear orange with thin white head. Starts with a ton of sweet candi sugar and spicy citrus. Slightly dry, bitter finish. Thin. More triple-esque than IIPA.

bottle thanks to TexasJeep. Pours golden with a white head. Nose is of citrus and yeast. Taste is of citrus, spice and yeast. Mouthfeel is medium-thin and bitter.

Bottle at the July Houston tasting, courtesy of TexasJeep. Thanks! Pours an average cheddar orange; thin body, weak white head. Aroma is plastic designer hairspray (Fructise, maybe?), doughy peach, and sweet raisin. Flavor is an upfront, no apologies peachy grapefruit quickly tempered by an alcohol soaked pine cleaner. Very intense and unforgiving. Pleasant mouthfeel that leaves a tingly thin film of flavor. Nice beer, but one is enough.

Bottle 65cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #35. ]
[ Trade by GAManiac ]. Unclear hazy medium orange color with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is fruity, apricot, peach, overriped mandarin, soapy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, and a light peppery finish. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090612]

I drank one already and it was quite good so I guess it’s time to drink the other one and actually think about it. I’ll think about pouring this one into the Duvel tulip right now... Pours a very clear honey color with tiny bubbles of carbonation that are quite sparse. On the first pour the head is quite thin (only a small to moderate pffft of the cap upon opening) and it goes rather quickly. Swirl it around a little bit and the head gets to about a finger, thins out again rather quickly and leaves faint lacing. Man, I dig that Belgian yeast strain in an IPA/DIPA. It just works - the yeast electricity and the carbonation toss the bountiful citrus hops into a strong supporting role. The very oightly carmelized malt gives off a solid honey texture. Wow...this is DRY. And good. Sure there’s a little maltiness left but barring that, the hops are pine and this one is like balsa wood or whatever you want to call it...arid. To me that’s a good thing - I don’t like a lot of sweetness in my Belgian IPAs...this dryness could be mistaken for boozy astringency but I don’t take it that way. Palate feel is...what else...dry. Maybe after a little while we do get a little more astringent from the heft of the booze...hops may be on the back 9 but only a hint of earth here. Some residual sweetness layers over the dryness like a summer-weight sleepin’ bag. I must be getting sick of reviewing beer or I must like this one quite a bit, ’cause I don’t feel like babbling about it anymore - I just want to drink it and enjoy it, ’cause it’s good. This is another synergy beer - the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Whatever you call it...drinkability or "overall impression," it’s very good stuff.

Bottled. A dark golden beer wtih a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of soap, lavender, spices, hops, and peaches. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, alcohol, peaches, and hops.

Swing and a miss (that’s two in a row, as I was not a fan of Dos Cocoas either). Just felt like the IPA and Tripel were battling each other instead of working together. Take a pass on this one.

Bottle Pours out a gold topped with a off white head. Aroma was of floral hops, some fruit and a little spice. Tast was of hops, belg yeast and some fruit. A little different in a good way.