Rogue Monk Madness
Five layers of malt create a complex, slightly sweet flavor balanced by five different hop varieties. The addition of free-range coastal waters and Rogue’s proprietary PacMan Yeast make this 12-ingredient elixir something Friar Tuck would enjoy! We hope you do too!
Monk Madness Ale is brewed with 2-row Pale, Belgian Munich, Belgian Special B, Weyermann Melonoidin, and Amber Malts; Belgian Nobles, Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial, and Summit Hops; measuring in at Plato 18 degrees, ABV 7.4 percent, 68 IBUs, 78 degrees Apparent Attenuation, and 36 Degrees Lovibond. [Editor’s Note: these stats are from the bottle, not the website, which differs substantially) A versatile and robust ale, we recommend pairing this with spicy foods, strong cheeses, and/or with dessert.]
Monk Madness Ale is brewed with 2-row Pale, Belgian Munich, Belgian Special B, Weyermann Melonoidin, and Amber Malts; Belgian Nobles, Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial, and Summit Hops; measuring in at Plato 18 degrees, ABV 7.4 percent, 68 IBUs, 78 degrees Apparent Attenuation, and 36 Degrees Lovibond. [Editor’s Note: these stats are from the bottle, not the website, which differs substantially) A versatile and robust ale, we recommend pairing this with spicy foods, strong cheeses, and/or with dessert.]
3.3
357 reviews
Newport, United States
Community reviews
Pours a murky orange-brown colour with a rocky three-finger tan head that retains well with great 3-dimentional lacing. The nose is sweet and vinous with very pronounced hops ranging from piney to citric to fruity. The flavour is a bit weak on the maltiness, but the hop flavours are brilliantly complex and mildly bitter, displaying more hop flavour than bitterness. The malts are lightly toasty and bready, but an odd raw vegetable flavour subsides mid-palate. The alcohol is hidden better in the taste than in the aroma. The body is thin and the carbonation is soft. Decent, but not worth buying again.
pours half inch tan head. color isn’t too impressive its a murky doo doo orange. aroma consists of hopps and over ripened fruit. not much carbonation but goes down smooth and a hoppy flavor is left on your tongue for a long time. not overly impressed with this beer.
Rating from memory. Pours brown with orange tints with creamy white head. Aroma is nutty with noites of molasses, honey and brown suger. Flavor is nutty also with molasses, caramel and brown suger. Was suprised that this is listed as an ASA. Found it to be an enjoyable brew and one worth trying again.
Pours a dark ruby color with a thin tan head. There is a lot of hoppy bitterness that I like in the flavor, but also some roasted malts and dried fruit flavor. The finish is very long, and the bitterness stays, adding a unique taste for you to remember it by.
Bomber, served in a snifter at cellar temperature. Pours a cloudy orange-brown, with a quickly billowing white head that has great staying power, and lacing later on. Nose is similar to a weak barleywine, but with stronger hints of fig, spice, and freshly baked bread. Taste is of just-ripened fruit, heavily malted. Mouthfeel is a bit thin, but retains some of that great Chimay-like breadiness. Very solid brew...would like to try this with a spicy seafood dish.
Bomber bottle, Tulip Glass -Pours a medium to dark ruby with dark brown at the edges, does look similar to grape juice in some ways, has a good creamy off-white to tan head that hangs around for a while, and left some creamy lacing on the glass. Trappist Glass- pours a muddy ruby with haze, hada good cover of an off-white head that disappeared quickly, head shrunk to a ring and came to life when swirled, left some lacing on the sides of the glass to. This has an aroma of dark candy sugar, malt sweetness, dark candies, raisins and plums, there is a buckwheat honey sweetness in the background, some faint chocolate and brown sugar, I found this to be predominately sweet on the nose, taste of brown sugar, dark malt, and some raisin flavor, not as full on the palate as it looked or as I was expecting, a lot of hop bitterness that is a fine bitterness and provides a pretty clean finish, that left some sweetness lingering around, I sensed just a touch of alcohol after this reached room temperature, the mouth feel is light for an American Strong Ale, about medium or so on the palate but to me felt very light on the tongue compared to the other American Strong Ales I’ve had, I think this would have better with more oomph on the palate, that is why I gave a lower score on mouth feel, not a bad drink at all.
650 ml. Clear red-tinted chestnut with a small, creamy and lasting head. Earthy cocoa and toasted pecan aroma is delicious. Flavor is similar: dark-roasted pecan, molasses, and caramel. All the great malty flavors are more than balanced by acidic orange and evergreen resin from tons of hops. The balance creates an astringent mouthfeel, but a toasted nut-bittersweet cocoa flavor throughout. Medium body is smooth until the finish and aftertaste when the hops become too hoppy-bitter and astringent for me, but then I just take another swig of the big malty front to even the score. Dangerously drinkable in this way! Really one of the most starkly bipolar flavor swings I’ve tasted: from the big malty entry to the mouth-puckeringly dry aftertaste; but overall a nice brew.
Bottle courtesy of Indybigtom: Poured a deep cloudy brown ale with a thick foamy head with good retention but no lacing. Aroma of West Coast hops is easily discernable with some huge caramel notes. Taste is also dominated by some bitter citrusy Pacific hops with some notes of caramel and toffee and some medium sweet malt. Full body with some average carbonation and no apparent alcohol. I was expecting a Belgian style ale but instead I got this hybrid beer which is a frustrating and more or less successful experiment.
Bottle just as image shows. Pours dark red/brown. Taste was dry and bitter... nothing overly impressive, long finish.
I’ll make this one quick as it isn’t worth much time. Starts off nicely with a muddy brick body and a lasting beige cream but the nose is a stupefying imbroglio. All I can cry is, "Where are the monks?" Not terribly offensive, but you could hardly find more modern and American. Almost barleywinesque the nose stresses syrupy hops, ripe banana, caramel, soap and honey. The flavor starts off with mildly unpleasant over-steeped white tea but the dégringolade continues from there. The intense bitterness is appalling, suggesting old socks, perfume and orange peel. I opt for a quick swallow, hoping to abort the looming disaster but encounter a final burst of acridity. The aftertaste is what I imagine sucking a on a nasty old teabag would be like. My notes concerning the mouthfeel actually read "Uggh..." Rogue is generally well regarded, which is perhaps why my words are harsher than my score, but this is a flippant brew indeed.
Pours a ruby orange color with a tan head. Nice crisp taste that is malty. It was good, but I wish it was better.
Bottle. Pours a dark red brown. Aroma is sweet and malty. Flavor is semi sweet. Not bad beer, defenetly Rogue quality but there are nothing Monk about it. Im not even mad
Bottle. This beer poured a small frothy tan head that was mostly lasting, fair amount of lacing, hazy, fizzy carbonaton, and a brown hue. Nose was hoppy, pine, malty, citrus, grapefruit, and some caramel. Ditto for the flavor along with some bitterness, and a semi-dry finish. Tingly mouthfeel and medium in body. Quaffable beer with a nice hoppy flavor. Not an outstanding beer for the style, but decent and worthy of a try.
I enjoyed this one- a light hoppy taste, hints of pine... a little spicy/Christmas-y which I LOVE! A little syrupy with a nice full body- its only real resemblance to its Belgian namesake I think. Yummy, though!
Review from notes. Poured into my Rogue pint glass. Ruby brown in color, modest head, decent lacing. Earthy, musty aroma, with some wheaty breadiness and leafy hops. Taste is malty and grainy, with a medicinal hop character and a metallic note. The flavors don’t really mesh well. Dry finish, high drinkability.
On tap at Tyler’s, Durham. I recall assuming from the name that this one would be a Belgian style dubbel or something. I suppose I should have known, given the brewer, that it would be something more West Coast-y, aggressive in the hopping, and so forth. A kind of dusty brown, with moderate head and lacing. Some mild spice in the nose and the taste, but mostly this was, how shall I put this, a beer that aspired to be arrogant.
Bottle. Hazy orange/amber color, nice creamy offwhite head. Fruity, malty, hoppy aroma, pine apple, vanilla, some citrus, some grass. Hoppy, grassy flavor, metallic, perfume, some yeast. A lot more american than belgian, and a good beer.
Pours a brownish red with a tan head. Aroma of nuts, vanilla, chocolate, citrus and caramel. Flavor of malt, citrus, pine fruit and spices. Nice bitter yet sweet fruity finish. Pretty interesting beer.
Nov. 2006 - Um, the name "Monk" implies Belgian...yet this has a grapefruit aroma...? Pour was a beautiful amber brown color with nice head. Flavor was a lot of grapefruit and lemon smothering out some candied sugar, fruity underneath flavor. Thin mouthfeel. This is what happens when you ask a hophead to attempt a Belgian.
Poured a hazy almond with not much head. Aroma is definitely nutty with vanilla, nuts, malts and chocolate. Flavor is bitter with definite malts and dark chocolate (but a light flavor). Body is surprisingly light. An okay beer. just not a Rogue fan.
22 oz. bottle poured a thick chestnut mahogany in color with medium steady carbination and a one finger head of dark tan foam. second glass poured had a bit of sediment in it as held under the light. aroma has toffee, caramel, malt, citrus, hops spice, and a little candy sugar sweetness. mouth feel is medium with some creamy texture and a good dose of carbination. flavor is full of malt and hops colliding. great fullness from the malted side with caramel and toffee with the hops adding spice and citrus to the balance. little bit of yeast comes across and light touch of floral. American strong is a fitting description but not sure where the monk madness in the name comes from. either way i think this is a winner for rogue.
Rich ruby in colour, large lingering beige coloured head, excellent lacing. The aroma is quite hoppy (lots of citrus, oranges and grapefruits), caramel, light fruits. The flavour is moderately bitter, some citrus, chocolate, pine, grapefruit, quite hoppy. Bitter mouthfeel, medium body, moderate carbonation. Finishes lingering, citrus hops, bitter. This has all your Rogue hoppiness but this one is a little tiresome.
650ml bottle from the Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York for $5.49.
Purchased on August 20, 2007 and opened on November 20, 2007.
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22 oz bomber. Deep ruby-tinted brownish beer with a thick off-white head. Smells like Rogue, light piny hoppiness, sweet toasty malts, a bit of plumminess as well. Very hoppy flavour as well with pretty high bitterness for what they were going for. Decent balance and a pretty solid ASA. Lingering resinousness and woody hop flavour. As it warms the malty complexity does pick up a bit... nice beer, if a bit unusual.
Smells like sweet caramel but the taste is nice and bitter -- pretty complex, maybe a woody flavor. Actually it’s really bitter -- I wouldn’t want to drink too much of it in one sitting, but it’s great in small quantities.
Bottle. Pours muddy caramel, thin off white head. Aroma is dried fruit, malt, caramel. Flavor is the same with vanilla, chocolate, and some coffee & hops bitterness.
Dark dirty brown pour with a cream head. Nice lacing. Aroma of hops and caramel. Great complex flavor of coffee, wheat and caramel. Great hoppy finish.
From a 22 oz bottle this was a cloudy copper with a an off-white head, that left big hunks of lacing along with the rings. Nose of floral and citrus hops, and caramel malts. Rich mouthfeel, and complex flavors with a little bit of everything...coffee, raisins, apples, pears, apricots, and even honey. Nice bitter finish. Great brew.
22oz bottle poured in a shaker. Monk Madness pours an awful diareah color with a clumpy head that resembles mold. It has a very nice toffee aroma with a touch of butter and yeast. The flavor is is quite unique and utterly delightful. Toffee makes another appearance in the taste along with the butter. The hops are superbly balanced. There are coffee, rasin and heavy bread flavors more typical of a stout yet there are barley wine reminders hidden in there as well. As I read through the other descriptions on ratebeer I see a very wide array of descriptions. I can easily see why. This beer is complex and hard to narrow down. This beer doesn’t make me think of Belgian abbey ales at all though so if that’s what you’re looking for, go somewhere else. If I had to suggest one improvement it would be to make the beer a tad thicker. It’s ever-so-slightly thin.
Orangy-brown look with thick tan long-lasting head. Beautiful. Cinnamon, fresh baking bread in the nose. Creamy palate, but a little thin in body. Some hops. Not sure why this is classed as American Strong ale. Very enjoyable nonetheless.
22oz, not bad, not sure how old this was, but easily a sweeter less yeasty belgian, done with the american touch, not bad by any stretch but not distinguished from any other beer. just okay.