Founders Blushing Monk

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

22. Pours bloomin’ red but settles into near blackness in the glass. Thick, sudsy pink foam for a head, settles to light webby lacing and a slim rim. Huge raspberry nose--just acres and acres of fresh raspberries on the vine in a hot summer field, though with some white sugar added, so ya don’t wanna go too crazy with the au naturel points, I guess. Thick but not sticky or syrupy body with some carb, though not a ton of the bubble stuff. Heavy syrupy concentrate flavors but not in a synthetic way--just very condensed jammy fruit. Some white sugar also seems present. Not much happening in the way of ale-y flavors. Long fruity sticky finish.

Draft at Founders. Aroma is of raspberries. Flavor is tart and a little sweet, almost like a cran-raspberry drink. Tastes little like beer.

bottle: pours a dark berry red with a very little wihte head. aroma is very beery lots of raspberry adn slight cherry, some belgina yeast adn sweet malts to flutter in. flavour is very rasperry almost all fruit slight tartness with a unique belgain yeast twist.

Bottle, thanks sersdf. This thing looks pretty awesome - like pureed raspberries. Totally opaque and deep purple-red in color. Thin white head that leaves an oily slick. Smells like raspberry sorbet. Some lemon in there, not hugely interesting in its smell. Some of the alcohol comes through. Tons of small bubbles. Tart raspberry and sour cherries in the flavor. Nice beer.

Draft. Deep hazy red color with lacing type head. Aroma of raspberries. The taste was of sweet/tart raspberries with some yeast coming in. Al ittle syrupy with alcohol well hidden.

Bottle shared by Swolf3 at the NSSMNSLT. Pour was a brilliant deep garnet color, small frothy pink-purple colored head. The aroma was rich firm raspberries displaying also some tartness. No oak or wood, a little sticky even in the nose, aside from the tart notes. The flavor followed, pretty one dimensional on the raspberries, yet still quite a nice job. A good job playing sweet AND tart raspberries throughout. Alcohol was way smootho for the ABV. Not as complex as the NG Raspberry Tart, not as amazing as the DFH Fort in depth and complexity (at even greater ABVs), yet still near the top of the fruit beer class. Thanks, Steve, a fun one! And boy, Founders sure can make some fun stuffs!

9/05/2007: Founder’s Blushing Monk pours out a clear red color is a slight violet hue to it. The head is thin and foamy and is also has a violet-colored tinge to it. The aroma is loaded with ripe raspberries fresh from the vine with a hint of dark chocolate in the background. The slightly sweet flavor is mostly raspberry and could probably pass in a blind tasting as a fruity red wine. There is a hint of tartness in the finish (just like real raspberries have!). The body of this beer is medium-light and it is softly carbonated and smooth on the palate. Bluching Monk is a great fruit beer and is even better than the <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/founders-rübæus/ Rübæus!

22 oz bottle (12.1% ABV) shared by Peanut at the Dilly Deli. Thanks for sharing this surprise bottle Peanut. I really appreciate it! Rating #89 for this beer...

They call this stuff LPR for a reason. 12.3% and very drinkable. One of my favorite brews from founders and sampled on many occasions. Tart jammy raspberry aroma and flavor, easy to drink, and a great buzz to go with it. I love this stuff.