21st Amendment Monks Blood

21st Amendment Brewery
Brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

I loved the can. Nice aroma of Belgian spices and bread. The flavors are warming and spicey. It’s a Belgian, what’s not to love?

12 oz can courtesy of another box from MvW. Thanks, man! Pours a richer brownish pour, not opaque, with a distinct ruby hue throughout, deep cherrywood colors, a good murkiness, with a sizable light brown head atop, cakes as a good layer, laces ok, sticks around pretty well. Aromas are good doses of caramel, toffee, spicy yeast and Candi sugar. Fruit comes forward as it warms more, some faint pit fruit moving into baked apples, some pear, and touches of candied fruit. Smooth vanilla and more sticky malts come into the fold, inviting yeasty element, more candi sugar. Initial is medium bodied, offering some stale malts and sweetness, Candi sugar and a good deal of caramel and toffee move into the fold. Immediately, toasty apples and touches of dark fruit, dried fruits, mellow orange peel. A gentle yeasty spice, smooth sticky malts. A bit thicker than medium bodied, offering some good flavors, girth, sweetness up front and through the middle, drying out and getting a little spicy into the finish. Touches of oak, the cardamom and dark fruit give me a reminders of Collab ’08. A solid American darker Belgian beer, sweet and inviting, with a touch of contrast into the finish. Warmer nose offers a lot of yeast, apples.

Tasting @ Home with J&C, October 2011. Can thanks to Blomster ! DArk slightly hazy amber color, tiny head. Very rich, sweet malty aroma, caramel,brown sugar, ripe fruit. Flavour is similar to the aroma. Sweet, fruity malty, lots of caramel, quite complex but very balanced . Wish I had much more of this.

Can. Brown with some orange and a light tan head. A good amount of artificial candied cherry in the nose, reminiscent cheap jam or cheap maraschino, along with some vanilla and brown sugar as it warms up. Taste is thankfully only medium sweet considering the nose with mild bitterness. Flavors of cinnamon, some sweetness, alcohol, and bitterness. Finishes lightly sweet and bitter. On the lighter side of medium with and average carbonation. Not my favorite combo of flavors but it improved a bit as I drank more.

Name: Monk’s Blood
Date: May 08, 2010
Mode: Can
Source: Tasting, Simpson Satisifier
Appearance: clear dark amber, wispy beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet cara.el aroma, light chocolate, touch of fruity esters
Flavor: rich malt flavor, caramel sweetness, deep fruity character
Overall: a bit lack luster for a quad
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

At a tasting, thanks David Cohen, pours brown to orange with a medium head, aroma of alcohol, dried fruits, wood and whiskey, sweet flavor with malt, sweet fruits, vanilla, wood and cherry, well carbonated, medium bodied

Sampled at Akkurat. Stockholm, September 28th, 2011.
Big artificial candy notes in the aroma together with strawberries, plums and other sweet fruits. A dash of alchocol is also present. Sweet, complex and soft taste with some caramel and dried fruits. Not nearly as refined as the classic Belgians but a well drinkable beer.

Can. A hazy dark red beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, spices, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes fo malt, caramel, and alcohol, as well as lighter notes of straw, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.