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Menagerie #8
Evolution Craft Brewing Company
- From:
- Evolution Craft Brewing Company
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 11.19%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 18, 2015
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2012
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 5
No description / notes.
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Rated by jarrgal from North Dakota
3.07/5 rDev -23.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.07/5 rDev -23.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Highly carbonated Belgian beer with a mild tartness and strong candied sugar notes.
Dec 30, 2014Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
2.86/5 rDev -28.9%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2.86/5 rDev -28.9%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Thanks to damienblack for this bottle, the last survivor of a fall-time trade. Big 22 oz. bottle that would be very difficult to stuff in your pockets & smuggle into a Twins game. Split with my wife (who picked it out).
The pour is obnoxiously carbonated, billowing at the slightest provocation, & I have to pause at the halfway point. The beer, what I can see of it, is dark, arterial-blood red. Nose is rife with wine barrel, strong Belgian yeasts, & a healthy dose of sugar cane.
Menagerie #8 isn't twisting my nipples. Whatever subtleties are noted on the label are drowned in candied sugar, rabid carbonation, & yeastiness. Might be a few wine notes in here; hard to tell amidst the overbearing opening. Tartness that might be the wine, or an impending infection, right on the end. Half a bomber? Put it on my honey-chore list.
Glancing through the other reviews, it's hard to believe this is the same beer. I didn't know this was released a year ago, but something has gotten into it. Doesn't even rise to average; my first disappointment from a good brewery.
Nov 22, 2013The pour is obnoxiously carbonated, billowing at the slightest provocation, & I have to pause at the halfway point. The beer, what I can see of it, is dark, arterial-blood red. Nose is rife with wine barrel, strong Belgian yeasts, & a healthy dose of sugar cane.
Menagerie #8 isn't twisting my nipples. Whatever subtleties are noted on the label are drowned in candied sugar, rabid carbonation, & yeastiness. Might be a few wine notes in here; hard to tell amidst the overbearing opening. Tartness that might be the wine, or an impending infection, right on the end. Half a bomber? Put it on my honey-chore list.
Glancing through the other reviews, it's hard to believe this is the same beer. I didn't know this was released a year ago, but something has gotten into it. Doesn't even rise to average; my first disappointment from a good brewery.
Menagerie #8 from Evolution Craft Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
60 ratings
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