Friday, December 16, 2016

Ölbeat 155: Victory Golden Monkey

Brewery: Victory Brewing Company
Country: United States
Style: Abbey Tripel
Abv: 9,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is light orange with a small white head. Aroma has funky sour apple, white wine like spicy aroma and some yeast - very luring scent. Taste lifts off with hoppy yeasty fruits. Delicious sweet-sour lemon-banana flavoured, fruity spicy yeasty and smoothly tickling bitter liquid fills the mouth. Yeasty sweet bitterness rises on top towards the end. Aftertaste has nice fruity bitterness and alcohol warmth.

Perfect complex Tripel. It doesn't get better than this even if it's actually Belgian. Delicious fruity, yeasty and bitter flavours which are possible only when the malt base is right. The coriander fits this brew beautifully. Excellent stuff.

Ölbeat

A modern spicy, yeasty and fruity classic set me to search something light and classic pop. The name of the brew led me to The Monkees who got just the right song to match the magically beautiful Belgian-style beer.

The Monkees: Daydream Believer (YouTube)

From the 1968 album The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, the song was written by John Stewart.