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Flying Monkeys Super Collider DIPA
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Flying Monkeys Super Collider DIPA
Another great beer from the crew in Barrie. I recommend seeking this one out. It might be hard to get but it sure is worth it. Great lacing, copper in color. The hops really come through taste wise. I'm not sure if my nose isnt working properly but I find it a little more malty than hoppy smell wise. Not the case for my taste buds though. Alcohol is noticeable but I'm not complaining. Try it out! One of the better brews to come from Ontario all of this is my opinion of course.
We can get drunker than this!!
Yeah I'm very WTeffing about the 12% ABV - do I need to get blitzed on one or two beers?? - but I will look for it. Peter Chiodo and crew are working at building a neat-looking product line. Oh yeah and tasty. But it's neat to have a jazzy looking beer label in Ontario that doesn't look like my nephew's primary school class project.
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Picked up two bottles of this today. I'll be doing my review and uploading to youtube sometime this week as well. Peter also hooked me up with one of the Alpha-Fornication 2500 IBU's scared just thinking about it lol. Cheers!
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I swear, I think Peter must have seriously offended the higher-ups at the Lickbow at some point, because they seem to love letting his stuff sit around long enough to get stale and lousy. Seriously, if it weren't for pints on tap at the Kick Off of Flying Monkey's, I wouldn't understand what the hell the fuss is all about. Every six-pack of anything I've had from the LCBO has ranged from awful to merely passable, and I'm convinced it's all a freshness issue, or rather, a having-sat-around-for-months issue. Sheesh. Rant over.JeffPorter wrote:I'm guessing, on the LCBO front, this is still being holed up in the warehouse in Durham?
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Tried it for the second time on tap at Gambrinus. Very fresh pint served in proper branded glassware.
Big bready, doughy, and biscuity nose, similar to an altbier, with a little bit of stone fruit and bubblegum coming through. Surprisingly malt-forward aroma.
Taste is caramel and deep bready malts with piney-citric hops, lots of earthiness, and an abrasive, astringent, almost aspirin-like bitterness. Alcohol warms the insides after the first few sips but doesn't register on the palate. Rather strangely, some diacetyl was evident on the cough (though not enough to be distracting).
Creamy, smooth, and fuller than medium mouthfeel with a drying bitter finish and a little heat in the throat.
It's a good but not great DIPA that could use some work. For some reason I enjoyed it more out of the bottle at the Golden Tap Awards. I'm only posting my review because I know the brewers are perfectionists who will undoubtedly tweak the recipe and make it better. My advice would be to turn down the alcohol a few notches (say 3%), aim for a leaner malt bill, and use more flavour and aroma hops. I'm confident that Peter, Adil, and Co. will revisit this brew and transform it into another Flying Monkeys hit (maybe under a different name, who knows). In the meantime I'll be grabbing bottles from the 'BO to see if I like them as much as the ones that debuted at the GTAs.
Big bready, doughy, and biscuity nose, similar to an altbier, with a little bit of stone fruit and bubblegum coming through. Surprisingly malt-forward aroma.
Taste is caramel and deep bready malts with piney-citric hops, lots of earthiness, and an abrasive, astringent, almost aspirin-like bitterness. Alcohol warms the insides after the first few sips but doesn't register on the palate. Rather strangely, some diacetyl was evident on the cough (though not enough to be distracting).
Creamy, smooth, and fuller than medium mouthfeel with a drying bitter finish and a little heat in the throat.
It's a good but not great DIPA that could use some work. For some reason I enjoyed it more out of the bottle at the Golden Tap Awards. I'm only posting my review because I know the brewers are perfectionists who will undoubtedly tweak the recipe and make it better. My advice would be to turn down the alcohol a few notches (say 3%), aim for a leaner malt bill, and use more flavour and aroma hops. I'm confident that Peter, Adil, and Co. will revisit this brew and transform it into another Flying Monkeys hit (maybe under a different name, who knows). In the meantime I'll be grabbing bottles from the 'BO to see if I like them as much as the ones that debuted at the GTAs.
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More of a message for cmadd, no review yet...he know's I've been pretty eager to try it...
Wife and I are at her uncle's for lunch on Sunday...He's got all these bottles lined up on the counter for a selection. Stonehammer, but also FM Amber, Hoptical, and Smashbomb. Wow, I thought. Uncle-in-law is into Smashbomb!
He then proceeded to tell me that he and his wife visited a charming brewery on the way back from Muskoka. I'd love it, he says. "Oh, and we brought you back something interesting we thought you might like..."
Hurray!!!
Bottled Aug 17 - I'm sure those are the bottles that we'll see soon in the store. I'm gonna drink it tonight...It really sounds boozy though...
Wife and I are at her uncle's for lunch on Sunday...He's got all these bottles lined up on the counter for a selection. Stonehammer, but also FM Amber, Hoptical, and Smashbomb. Wow, I thought. Uncle-in-law is into Smashbomb!
He then proceeded to tell me that he and his wife visited a charming brewery on the way back from Muskoka. I'd love it, he says. "Oh, and we brought you back something interesting we thought you might like..."
Hurray!!!
Bottled Aug 17 - I'm sure those are the bottles that we'll see soon in the store. I'm gonna drink it tonight...It really sounds boozy though...
"What can you say about Pabst Blue Ribbon that Dennis Hopper hasn’t screamed in the middle of an ether binge?" - Jordan St. John
Excellent! Now I can lay into my last bottle without a bit of remorse! I look forward to your thoughts.JeffPorter wrote:More of a message for cmadd, no review yet...he know's I've been pretty eager to try it...
Wife and I are at her uncle's for lunch on Sunday...He's got all these bottles lined up on the counter for a selection. Stonehammer, but also FM Amber, Hoptical, and Smashbomb. Wow, I thought. Uncle-in-law is into Smashbomb!
He then proceeded to tell me that he and his wife visited a charming brewery on the way back from Muskoka. I'd love it, he says. "Oh, and we brought you back something interesting we thought you might like..."
Hurray!!!
Bottled Aug 17 - I'm sure those are the bottles that we'll see soon in the store. I'm gonna drink it tonight...It really sounds boozy though...