Daleside Monkey Wrench

Brewed by Daleside
Style: English Strong Ale
Harrogate, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Tasty beer. Amber beer with a bit of red to it. Full malt flavor with mild hop bitterness and yeast flavors.

How many dirty stinking apes does it take to throw a wrench in a bitter ale? Notes of chocolate and coffee, also looks like strong coffee. Nuts and raisins as well. Sweet flavor with caramel aftertaste. Very smooth, full bodied, and easy drinking. Needs more hopping, really more like a mild ale.

Clear nutty brown with a big beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, nutty and dried fruit. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. Oily. 050412

5.3% and not a bad beer but they have annoyed me immensely, if the monkey had been hanging I would have really enjoyed it but at the time I was too confused by the drivel on the label. The label on the back claims that the beer was named for an old legend (to do with my home town), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger but it is obviously not, it is named after a type of adjustable spanner and nothing to do with the legend. I can not see why they even bothered printing it.

Pours dark reddish brown with a thin wispy tan head. Notes of biscuit, marris otter, raisin and roasted nuts. Medium bodied, soft carbonation.

Dark red-amber with a long lasting head and thick lace. Solid sweet caramel malt with overtones of sorghum molasses and biscuit. As it moves through the palate a smooth floral hop bittering provides a cleansing balance. At the finish, sweetness re-emerges. An excellent beer.

First tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 1991. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear reddish amber in colour with a thin white head. Slight treacle toffee and roast barley in the short but pleasant aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts deliver a good maltloaf body with sultana fruit, dates and sweet soft toffee notes. Dry hop prickle in the brief aftertaste but this soon fades to reveal a warming alcoholic malty finish with a dry liquorice edge. An excellent English Strong Ale and very hard to find north of the border.

Bottle at home. Dark ruby brown with a small head. Woody chocolate malt nose, hint of caramel. Sweet malt front, red fruit notes and a slightly spiced coffee finish. Pretty decent.

Cask @ Bon Accord. Brown colour, off-white head. Aroma is slight chocolate malts, bit of caramel. Flavour of chocolate and caramel and a bit of fruits. Average.

UPDATED: MAR 24, 2012 Bottle. Thick off white head with great retention. Dark brown body. Fruits, cherries, malt, toffee, grass, alcohol, tin. Bittersweet. Bitter and dry on the finish. Smooth drinking. Warming. 6 4 6 4 12

Ligth cola colour with little head. Nose with dar crystal malt, caramel and a touch of fruitcake A soft beer wich medium body and a fine length. tasing of caramel, dried fruit and fruitcake. really nice ale with lot of taste.