Founders Backstage Series #1: Blushing Monk (2011)

Formerly brewed at Founders Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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From notes - quick commentary. Personal favorite from MI Winter Beer Fest. More similar to lindy’s framboise than expected. The palate differs most, favoring malt only slightly. Short and sweet - an awesome, enlivening beverage.

OMG! Pours red with a pinkish red head. Smells like raspberry jam. Strong sweet raspberry flavor. Almost like candied raspberries. 9.2 abv? No trace of it at all. Even the non beer loving wife loved it. Flavor lingers on the palate forever. Overall an AWESOME beer!

Tart yet fruity sweet. From the bright pink head to the last dark red drop, this beer aims to please, and, for me anyway, it totally succeeds. It’s definitely a fruit beer and makes no qualms about it. A punch of fresh raspberry (like eating the fruit, not simply raspberry flavored) is present all the way through with a lasting sweet and tart finish. I’m going to have to grab another before it sells out!

What a great raspberry taste! Delicious and great finish! A little sweet but very good! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

This poured a very dark red almost pruple color, plum like, with an awesome pink head. Aroma was fresh ripe tar raspberries, lots of seeds, some light yeast and some acidic notes. Flavor was much like the aroma, but more intense, a mix of sweet and tart raspberries, like belgian spice and yeast, acidic and again nice grainy seedy character too. Just awesome stuff.

Thanks to lithy, I had an opportunity to try this at the 2nd Pgh Tasting on the 2nd. Very nice looking presentation in the glass; looks like grape juice with a head. Aroma is simply lovely; big fresh fruit raspberry thing in your nose, makes you forget all about your problems in life. My mouth is watering before I drink it. Taste? What taste? I think I died and went to nirvana or heaven er sumthin. I am dizzy with greatfulness as I sip this pleasure. This is styled as a fruit beer but it is not your typical fruit beer by any standard, its more in line with the best fruity lambics. This whole session with this gift is just so niiiiiiicccccceeee! Yummy fun for the taste buds. You would never know this is more than 9%, it can’t be. There is just a touch of alky on the palate, seems more like 3%. This beer must be scary when doing a bottle, if it really is 9.2%. Raspberry raspberry raspberry, lovely raspberry. This is what all fruit beers should strive to be, not a hint of artificial flavor what so ever. Lithy, THIS BEER ROCKS! Great, galore of beer tasting never forgetfulness. Big thanks to Justin for this brew! Truely the highlight of the tasting event!

Shared bottle with Timfoolery. Pours a dark read with a slightly pink head. The raspberry smell was strong, but not overwhelming. Is there any alcohol in it because there wasn’t even a hint of it upon taste. The perfect amount of tartness. Not my usual style of beer, but this one is definately a winner.

750ml bottle shared with jsprime. deep red with a pink head. huge raspberry nose. huge berry flavour, sweet middle, tart finish. fantastic fruit beer.

Bottle from Jaschais trade. Thanks a ton for this one! Over the top aroma of fresh berries and merlot. Flavors of fresh, tart raspberries and cherries. Light, pink head... This beer was amazing. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

One of my most anxiously anticipated beers, I love raspberries and I had heard this beer delivered them in spades. I wasn’t disappointed, and I actually think this is an even better beer than the NG fruit beers (which are too sweet to drink in any quantity). This has just the right amount of tartness and crispness to keep from going saccharine, and it works beautifully.