Dogfish Head Surrender Monkey

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Just found my tasting notes on this one. Tried this on tap at the RB brewpub. There is a reason why this beer isn’t being bottle and the bottom line was that it isn’t that good. Pours an amber color was a tiny head. The smell can only be described as medicinal. The taste was of water and bitter. Not a great beer and a letdown.

On tap at the brew pub in DE: Dark red color, small head.. Not much aroma. Flavor was cinnamon and malt. Cinnamon was the dominant flavor! It wasnt bad just not good as every one else said. Medium texture. To be honest I would NOT get it again... But cheers to DFH/Brian head brewer for trying something different!

On tap at Rehoboth Brewpub 03/22/08. Pint was a dense ruby color with no head. Aroma was faint with scents of malt and camomile? Flavor up front was mildly herbal, but with an odd medicinal twist to it. Mouthfeel was really thin and this contributed a watery property to the beer. Finish was sweet and fairly simple. Strange to say, but I found this beer to be eerily reminiscent of Newcastle. Somehow I don’t think this beer will ever make it into full production.

On Tap-@ Rehoboth Brewpub. Pours an amber/copper color w/a slight foamy head. It went downhill quickly from here. Had a very slight malt aroma & a weak, watery, medininal flavor to it. Although they were calling it a Scottish Ale, it had none of the malt bite or bitterness one would associate with this style; it did have a little bit of an iced tea taste to it, but I’ve had iced tea’s which were stronger. This beer was just too weak & had no body to it. They weren’t pushing it as a light or low alcohol, but the low ABV is certainly hurting the taste of this brew; it’s just not very good & thats not something I often have to say @ a DFH brew. I knew it was a bad sign when I ordered it & the bartender said "let me GIVE you a sample of it first & you can see how you like it". I’ve NEVER had that happen before @ DFH. This was one of their Brewpub specials & I don’t think it’s gonna make it to the bottling plant. I guess they can’t all be winners, especially when you do as many off the wall things as these guys do. I won’t hold it against them though!