Monk's Blood - 21st Amendment Brewery

I found another Giant Eagle treasure, and it didn't come from the bakery section.  It's called Monk's Blood.  It sounded like a strange, religious, horror movie in a drink so I figured it was worth a try.  It's a "Belgian style dark ale brewed with cinnamon, vanilla, oak chips and dried figs."  I couldn't get home fast enough to try it.

It was a very different taste, but for $9 for 4 cans I expected a bit more.  Harvesting a monk's blood must be difficult work, because that's the only explanation I can think of to justify that price.  It's not like it came in bottles or anything fancy. 

It poured sort of a dark "blood red" color which was pretty cool.  It was hard to see that though without holding it up to the light, which is why we chose to take the picture outside.  It was still sort of hard to see its true blood color in the picture, so we made an effort to get the American flag in the background.  The bitter, malty taste was similar to the Dragon's Milk, but not quite as enjoyable.  It was also quite earthy, like you could almost taste the oak chips and dried figs.  Mixed with the blood color and dark ale taste it was like a bloody forest potpourri beer.

There were some things I enjoyed about this besides the marketing.  For instance, its 8.3% ABV was something else.  It also tasted fine, I just don't see myself paying that price for 4 cans again.  I didn't like, however, that it changed my spit to an alarmingly dark khaki color.

Always thirsty,

-Thirsteve