Black Sheep Monty Python’s Holy Grail

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Ripon, England

Serve in English pint

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

The first time I saw this beer was a few years ago, a beerchronic had brought one back from the states for his own collection and being the selfish bastard that he is only brought me back 5 free beers Monty Pythons Holy Grail not being one of them. And i wanted that one bad for the sole reason of it having a kewl name/lable. After many years i spotted it here in the great white north of Canada, and with great excitement and a girlish squeal let out in the beer cooler i picked up. I’m not sure if it was the very long and excited wait or the fact this was really not all that good of a beer but wholly shyte was i disappointed. The first thing i noticed about this beer was the very low carbonation and the lack of head along with this it had the mouth feel of a glass of warm water. There was very little in the way of taste, and what taste there was lingered on your tung for a long while getting more bitter every minet I will say the limited flavor it had wasn’t all that bad it was just hard to find. To me this wasn’t a waste of money because I’ll have a new kewl bottle for the collection but if i had bought just the bottle with out the beer in it i would not have been disappointed. So in conclusion bottle = awesome, beer = brown water.

Aroma is malts and a little hops. Pours dark gold with a big white head. Taste is sweet and malty. Not bad.

Bottle from Ica Nær, Årvoll. Golden with an off-white head. Lightly hoppy aroma with malt and a hint of fruit and caramel. Less sweet than expected with some bitterness. Ok ale, but not exciting.

I would suggest avoiding this. It looks cool because of "Monty Python" but it is very watery, and weak.

amber with small head. i’m not quite sure what this beer is trying to be. it’s somewhat of a mess of flavors and just seemingly off. not that i expected a monty python beer to be excellent or anything...

Pours a ruby brown with a 4-finger head. Smells of hay, citrus. Taste is mildly sweet, moderately bitter - chocolate and hops.

Picked a six pack of this up the other night and found it very enjoyable. Although not classified as a summer ale the lightness of this beer make it a very good choice after a hot summer day.

Not that bad really. Just really standard and lacking in excitement. Strangely, it tastes like it has more alcohol than it actually does.

Not as bad as some would suggest. A nice looking amber with a small head. The aroma is all malt with a little caramel and toffee. The flavor has the malt and caramel, just a bit of hops to balance. A bit on the thin side. All in all, a decent beer.

It poured a clear amber color with an off-white head. The aroma was of malts and some floral notes. The taste was bready malts at first, followed by some sour grassy and somewhat funky bitter.

Bottle pours a clear golden/orange with a fizzy white head. Scent is malts/earthy and some hops. Taste is earthy with some sweet notes.