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Founders Blushing Monk

Founders Blushing Monk - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
96
overall
Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2683.78/5.03.75/5.0Summer12.3%99.3Flute
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Commercial Description:
AKA: Imperial Belgian Razz
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 adrian910ss (1395), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 25, 2007  
22 oz bomber. Pours a purpleish red color with a medium pink head. Nice aroma of fresh raspberries and grape juice. Taste is full of fresh raspberries with a hint of grape juice. Tart finish with a slight alcoholic flavor. Very nice, yet overpriced.


 Miver (551), WillowStreet, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/58/104/518/20
Aug 24, 2007  
Bottle from Capone’s and shared with Axilla. Great red color with soda like fizzy head that quickly went away. Raspberries came in strong and perfectly tart. It’s amazing this one can hide the alcohol so well. The price tag was high, but this is one I’m very glad I tried and wouldn’t hesitate to buy it again. Super.


 LearninBeer (194), Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/104/517/20
Aug 24, 2007  
The aroma is sweet almost like a soda pop. The appearance is dark red like a watery merlot or grape juice. The head is fizzy, purple/pink in color, fully diminishing. The body is clear. The initial flavor is moderate sweet, the finish about the same. The body is light, the texture watery, the carbonation a light fizzy. Is this really beer? This goes down very easy and would be very good with anything that was made with or marinated in a raspberry vingenerette.


 johnadam2002 (529), Hainesport, New Jersey, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20
Aug 24, 2007  
Poured ruby red with a fluffy pinkish head. Strong aroma of raspberries. Tons of raspberry flavor. This can’t be over 12%. Well made!


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
Aug 23, 2007  
Draft at Capone’s. Ruby magentaish pour with smallish light pink head that faded away quickly. The aroma was great, a very intense freshly picked raspberry aroma that was natural and not at all Jolly Rancherish. The palate was pretty hefty, somewhat sticky, with tons of raspberry flavor, plus a dollop of earthy yeasty hints. This one stayed pretty tart throughout, seeming to get a little sweeter toward the finish, definitelt sweeter than Sly Fox Black Raspberry. I’d really love to side-by-side this with NG Tart and the Sly Fox Black Raspberry. This one was outstanding.


 stegosaurus (1882), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Aug 23, 2007  
On draft @ Capones. Pours red with a small pink head. Aroma of raspberries and wheat. The flavor is sweet, raspberries, exceptionally smooth, with a moderate amount of carbonation. Good brew.


 egajdzis (3602), Spring Mount, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/516/20
Aug 23, 2007  
[Draft @ Capone’s] Poured a murky red brown color with no head, (nice head and lacing when poured from the bottle). Aroma of fresh raspberries, a bit of doughy yeast, and candy sugar. Taste of sweet raspberries, with vanilla, nuts, toffee, dry tannins (from the raspberry skins), and an alcohol burn on the way down. This is awfully similar to Rübæus, with just the minimal alcohol burn in the stomach.


 MrBendo (1039), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Aug 22, 2007  
On tap at Capone’s. Ruby reed color. Tastes of fresh and tart raspberries. Tangy and almost sour, leaves a citrus/lemon sense. I was working with a cold, so I really didn’t have a good palate, but I really couldn’t get past the raspberries to taste any grains or wheat. Not that that’s all bad.
Definitely approached NG Raspberry Tart. Maybe even surpassed it. Sure couldn’t taste the high alcohol. But does it need to be three times the price?



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