Rogue Monk Madness

Rogue Monk Madness is an American Brown style ale. It is reddish copper in color and hazy. The head is a light tan, very small bubbles, and lasts for a long time. The beer has a malty, licorice, honey, molasses smell (Special B malt), with just a slight smell of citrus. The taste is very malty, with the dark fruit flavors of raisins and plums. There is also a slight vanilla taste. While there is no good hop taste ( think Stone Ruination), there is the hop bitterness and the alcohol warmth in the back of your mouth.

This is not a bad beer, but it doesn't do a lot for me. I like the malt, but I am not a huge fan of hop bitterness without hop aroma or hop taste. With such a malty beer, it might be difficult to obtain a hop aroma or hop flavor. However, I think the hops should have been added much later in the brewing process. Dry hopping during fermentation would have been the way to go with this beer.