Great Yorkshire Monkmans Slaughter

Cask; Regular. Also available bottle conditioned.

Ingredients: Pale and Crystal malts; Kent Challenger and Golding
hops.

"A powerful brew, full bodied, dark brown, with a distinctive malty flavor."

Gold Medal Winner, Strong Bitter Category, Great British Beer Festival.

3.2

197 reviews

Cropton, England

Community reviews

3.3 500ml bottle as Baytown Smuggler’s Haul. Chestnut brown with a foamy beige head leaving lacing and malty fruity aroma. Flavour is malt, mollasses, raisins, chocolate & coffee, nutty and light roast bitterness. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, malty bitter finish. Quite drinkable.

3.7 500ml bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours clear copper brown, thin white head. Dark sugar and toffee aromas, light nuttiness. Light sweet taste, more nuts. Sweet finish. Nice.

3.4 Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - Nose - opaque black with a nice fluffy head. Taste - massive toffee and nuts. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a balanced dry but generous finish. Overall - you have to invest your time here, but you get some back.

3.5 Hand pulled at The New Inn, Cropton. Dark, malty and smooth with slight coffee. Decent.

2.7 10th July 2014 Clear deep amber beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light with fine carbonation. Smooth malt, unsweet dark toffee streak. Trace of cream. Whisper of citrus. Light finish. Says it’s a bitter but it really isn’t very bitter, it is a little dull.

3.6 Bottle from York Beer & Wine. This dark brown beer has sweet red fruit, chocolate and roasted flavours with a bitter, creamy, rich red fruity finish.

2.1 Quite unusual flavour, very unbalanced , big malty flavours are not really my thing, and the dryness at the end doesn’t clear it away. Not for me .

3.1 Doesn't take like a strong ale, even the bottled stuff is good. Reminds me of days living and working in that part of Yorkshire.

3.2 Drunk from 50cl bottle. Dark, strong ale. Smokey flavour.

3.6 1/2 pint in York bij trambeling madness. Met de hand getapt,prachtig donkerbruin met een dikke laag romig schuim. In de geur fruitig van de hop, de smaak is mooi bitterzoet en romig met een volle afdronk. Erg goed biertje

2.8 Bootle from Rhythm & Booze, Ripon. Pour mahogany with a short lasting head. There’s certainly plenty of flavour with coffee, roast malts, fruit cake, cloves and treacle. Quite a dry finish with a burnt toast after-taste. Unfortunately there’s something that doesn’t quite work about it.

3.7 Bottle conditioned. dark brown beer with small head and a little lacing. Aroma of christmas pudding. taste is dark fruits, sweetish malts and molasses. Oily medium palate. Very good ESA.

2.4 Pours like heavily brewed tea with a short tan head. Aroma is raisin, barley... Dark fruit flavours, berry, raisin.. A slight oxidized-sourness to it. Not exactly pleasant.

3.2 50cl bottle. Thick white creamy head. It doesn’t taste or look like a string bitter. Dark clear amber pour. Pretty nice brew though

4.0 Bottle@home, 500ml. Head: beige, but shrinking fast. Colour: clear ruby brown. Aroma: hops, raisins, xmas pudding?. Taste: dried raisins, bitter, some alcohol. Palate: mild, somewhat watery, medium body with lasting bitter finish. Overall: very good

4.0 500ml bottle - This is a good one. Nice round nose of malt and dark fruits, a good syrupy oily mouth feel, good dark body with a lasting white head. Bit of booziness kicks in as an afterthought to let you know it’s got a bit of ABV there. A nice pint that goes down easily and surprisingly refreshing.

3.9 Aroma is a complex mix of fruit and malts, similar to an Old Ale. The flavor is berries/cherries, malts, mild nuttiness and a mix of hops and funkiness in the finish.

3.1 Brown colour, off-white head. Malty aroma, caramel, light yeast, light milk chocolate. Quite bitter flavour, hops, sweet malts, boiled eggs. Caramel finish, more boiled eggs, light hops. (From 500mL bottle @ home)

2.6 For starters, CAMRA can say what ever they like, but that won’t make this an ESB. This beer has a fruity yeasty aroma that is Belgisch not British, with hints of earthiness. It’s umber brown with massive head. Taste is a strange tart contrasted with sweet chocolate, with an aftertaste of wet hair. It’s like a bitter with a lambic infection. I can almost see it as over aged brown ale, but too thin. I had to think this one over, but in the end I don’t care for it. However if one’s looking for something different, it’s worth a try.

2.7 500ml bottle. Clear dark brown color with a one-finger light beige head. Tart fruit aroma with herbal tea notes, maple, toffee, and tartness. Caramel and toffee base with black tea, maple, and fruits with an off-putting tartness (infected a bit?). Medium bodied and smooth, if a bit astringent. Has some good things going on, but overall not super enjoyable.

3.2 Bottle a dark brown colored beer with a white head aroma malts caramel spicy and hops flavor malts caramel fruits spicy and bitter hops in the finish

2.3 Dark brown with tan head. Malt-heavy. There’s nuts, hay and a very earthy/vegetable scent. Once on the tongue, it’s heavy bitter. Full of body, but ultimately not that pleasant.

2.8 10-Dec-11 (500-ml bottle: Purchased for $4.99 at the Pizza Port Bottle Shop in Carlsbad, CA) Well, perhaps the bottle I had previously wasn’t spoiled after all because the beer is tart this time around too. It’s kind of an oddball for an ESB. The dark malt is bready, toasty, earthy, and very gently roasty, while a dark fruit profile includes prune, blackberry, and black currant. Unexpectedly, the beer is mildly tart, which helps to balance out the cola- and molasses-like flavors and mild sweetness, and there’s a slight smokiness in the finish. The nose is mostly the same tart, dark fruits found in the flavor, along with cola, earth, and a bit of mustiness. Light-medium in weight, medium-high and prickly in carbonation, dry on the palate, and somewhat acidic. In the glass, it’s amber-brown in color with good clarity, and the light-tan head pours to two inches of very bubbly foam that noisily fizzes away in rocky fashion to half an inch of saliva-like bubbles. Chunky strings and patches of lace stick to the glass. Overall, it’s a decent beer and quite different from expectations, but that tartness is just a bit unsettling. Sometime in 2006? (500-ml bottle: Obtained 21-Mar-06 in trade with Lou18, thanks Lou!) This bottle had to have been stored upside down because all the brown gooey sediment is in the neck of the bottle and on the cap. And with a fairly tart flavor, I think this bottle is past its prime too. Very hazy, dark amber, or is that a light, ruddy brown? Smallish off-white head. Need another bottle.

2.5 Bottle (rated sometime in 2008). Head is initially large, frothy, light brown, mostly lasting. Body is dark amber. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (cookie, cracker), lightly yeasty (barnyard), with notes of gum, plum, and bile. Flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter, unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation.

4.0 Tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2001. Cask, gravity dispense. Ruby black in colour with a thin buff head. Strong, intense aroma of dark hedgerow berry fruit with bramble evident. Creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malt complex gives rich moist maltloaf base with sweet treacle fudge, molasses, chocolate and maple syrup. Short prickle of dusty hop which vanishes quickly. Finish is robust and heavy on the malt with dry liquorice and blackcurrant fruit flavours which are strong in intensity. This is a superb English Strong Ale and very popular judging by the number of reviews. Highly recommended.

3.1 Bottle. Pours clear mahogany with a large, frothy light tan head, long retention with excellent lacing. Aroma is dark fruits of plum, raisins, and figs, light earthy hops, biscuit and bread malt with a light acetic nose. Flavor is subdued malt behind sour and tart dark fruits with lightly spicy hops and a dry finish. Medium body, low warmth, medium carbonation.

4.4 Dark brown colour with a thin head, toffee/fudge aroma, smooth bitter caramel malt taste, very good.

2.8 Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty aroma with hints of caramel. Sweetish malty chocolate and caramel flavor with hints of hops. Has a sweetish malty caramel finish with hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

2.7 50 cl bottle, Sheffield, UK. Deep mahogany colour, aroma of resin. Balanced flavour, sharp resin follows into the finish.

2.8 50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a deep orange to amber glare and a small white head. Aroma is caramelish and butterish. Dry malty and breadish. Bitter, dark malty and caramelish. Bitter and malty finish. Slight butterish and caramelish finish.