Adelbert’s Flyin’ Monk

Brewed by Adelbert’s Brewery
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Austin, Texas USA

Serve in Trappist glass

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Bottle:   Deep caramel, thin sudsy sandy head, little lacing.   Dark pitted fruit on the nose, bready, in the dark sense, sweet, caramel malts, a bit rummy, with soft wood and noticeable alcohol.   Bright dark pitted fruit and dark bready malts up front, alcohol, with a woody and soft rum background.   Still seems very green, young, and slightly brash.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   Heavy barnish and musty notes on the finish, bready, dusty, some dark pitted fruit, wood, rum, and alcohol.   Lots going on, still seems a little young even.   Decent little beer, or should I say big beer, but remains a little green and brash as is.   Otherwise enjoyable.

Bottle from D&Q Mini Mart, 12/21/2012. Pours amber brown, dense head with thick long lasting lacing. Aroma is nutty, earthy caramel, faint dried fruit with dark grains and wood. Taste is sweet roasted malt, plums and caramel rum booziness, somewhat metallic and soapy character. Medium palate, could use a bit more thickness. Ok, but not sure if the oak treatment adds much here.

Deep brown with a good sized off-white head. Aroma is wood, rum, caramel, heavy vanilla, nuts. Taste is wood, vanilla, rum, malt, caramel. Sweet.

Bottle. The smell is sweet, pineapple, rum, caramel, fruits, rich, and spiced. The look is clear, brown burgundy in color, and has a beige colored. The taste is rummy, alcohol, wood, sweet, and ok.

Interesting description, but strong metallic notes mixed with the dubbel qualities competing with it and making it hard to enjoy the raisiny/rum notes that might otherwise shine through.

750 bottle. Dark brown and hazy with a small white head. Nose is musty, woody. Taste is full of malt, with a big alcohol kick. A bit thin body but not bad. A little sweet and viscous. I don’t detect much rum taste in this one. Decent version of quad.

Bottle. Deep, clear reddish-brown with a bubbly beige head. Aroma of sweet, dark fruits, caramel, brown sugar, and a little wood. The taste is sweet malt and fruit with a hint of booze. Medium bodied and a little boozy and dry. The rum aspect is very mild, and that’s fortunate. Rum doesn’t do it for me at all.

Hazy amber pour with little to no head. Aroma is raisins, brown sugar, candi sugars. Flavor is raisins, brown sugar, caramel. Thin mouthfeel, but nice dry finish.

Pours hazy brown with a thin, fizzy head, almost like cola. Sweet and malty, brown sugar, raisins and yeast. Just a hint of oak on the nose as it warms.