BrewDog Punk Monk

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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UPDATED: OCT 12, 2010 Bottled. A golden coloured beer with barely any head and just a rim of off-white bubbles around the edge of the glass. A big fruity citrus aroma from all those late addition hops. Oranges especially. Very bitter and tasty in the mouth. Lovely hoppy citrus flavours again. Tastes stronger and longer than regular Punk. This is all about those extra hops; the yeast profile doesn’t really effect the flavours IMO. Very nice indeed. Better than any bottle of Punk I’ve had. Score 4.0
Subsequent ratings scored 3.9 and 3.6. Average becomes 3.8

Got a couple of these in a big box BrewDog sent me for buying 20 of their beers from Sainsburys. Feel lucky as it’s a limited edition brew - no real label, just ’Punk Monk’ written on a white background. Pours a golden orange with small white head. Smell hoppy with some definate citrus apricot, peach, excellent and inviting. Fresh and ALIVE. Taste is Punk IPA with flowery, yeasty belgian goodness added. Rich hop taste but an overall mellower feel, with less bitterness. Compared it to the original Punk IPA and it is actually a lot better IMO. Very good.

Bottle ( 12oz ). Shared by swoopjones with me, biegaman, blankboy and garthicus. Pale gold with a small white head. Aroma of dry, resin bitterness, accompanied by apple, alcohol and oak - slightly earthy. The taste follows, but the resin bitterness builds to a grapefruit pitch acidic bitterness, and oddly boozy for 6%. Thin mouthfeel, a bit flat, quite astringent - finished uneven, dry and boozy ---- I was a bit "ehhh" on this one, but decent enough.

Bottle [12oz] shared with garthicus, HogTownHarry, biegaman & swoopjones -- c/o swoopjones . Pours a clear pale gold with no head. Nice aroma, lots of resiny hops along with some yeast and spices. Slightly watery flavour of citrus hops, yeast and fruit and with a long bitter finish. Average to medium bodied. Pretty good stuff.

On tap at White Horse, Parson’s Green. Definitely an estery yeast aroma. Definitely Punk in the mouth. Not a bad mix, a peachy grapefruit IPA. Probably the best thing at this festival

hand bottle. courtesy of cgarvieuk. shared with garthicus, harry, jan & paul. pale yellow pour, Great spicy hopped aroma, some citrus, Belgian yeast. Pour was somewhat flat. grassy dry hops, Pretty good but didnt add up to great aroma

Bottle. Yellow pour with slight head. Citrus aroma. Tastes hoppy, bitter, citrus fruit, malty. Pretty good effort.

Thanks to Swoopjones. Appearance: very light yellow with a whispy white head. Aroma: lemons, wheat, pepper, spice, yeast. Flavour: Wheat, alcohol, malt, elderberry, lots of yeast in the finish.

Bottle direct from the brewery, consumed 16-09-09 I tasted this alongside the Punk IPA it was a very interesting comparison. This pours gold with a white head, the aroma is glorious huge citrussy aromas fly off of this the Chinook hops are really making there mark here. In the mouth initially I get a nice soft malty base the belgian yeast is noticeable in that there is more restraint in this beer against the crispness and tang that you get in the Punk IPA but very quickly in the mouth the hops start to rip through, bitterness with big grapefruit flavours start leaching to all corners of the mouth but its surprising to me the measure of restraint that the there is in this beer. I was expecting some banana fruitiness and in a way I get that with a noticeable dab of tropical fruits late on. All things considered this is a most enjoyable beer. A8 A4 F8 P3 Ov16 3.9

UPDATED: OCT 15, 2009 Bottle from brewery. Golden yellow with a fresh white head. I have been salivating while reading the reviews of the Rake’s recent cask. This does them justice. Massively aromatic from the dry hopping. This beer punches well above it’s weight with an explosion of citrus flavours hitting you straight off. Then out of nowhere comes the juicy malt base with an unmistakable belguim aspect to the subtle fruity yeastines. This is one hell of a tweak!