Ladies, gentlemen and primates welcome to a new installment where I attempt to put the ‘brew’ in MonkeyBrewster.com Starting today I will be showcasing a new drink every Tuesday rated by me. Technically wine and liquors are brewed as well so expect more than just beer because we monkeys don’t discriminate when it comes to drinks. So what makes me an expert in drinking, what that gives me the power to rate and place judgment on the elixir of life? Well, nothing-you just have to take my word for it and maybe try a few for yourself to compare the difference and then share your take on it.

I come from humble beer beginning where Natural Light was the household favorite. I know you just made that, what I like to call ‘EwWwWwww’ face – that’s OK I understand but we all have to start somewhere. Today I enjoy a slightly more refined taste, but I won’t pass down a free Natty. Some personal favorites are Guinness, George Killians Irish Red, Negra Modelo and Itaipava (served super chilled on a beach of course), but as I said there are too few beers I know to really say I have a refined taste.

The only true way to know beer (wine and liquor) is to drink them all. Since I am now an educated monkey on the ways of drinking who lived passed that special night in the USA when a young primate becomes of age and can slam down their ID at a bar and say such things as, “Beer me blazer.” Oh that special night where I did try to consume every beverage the world had to offer in a champ like bar crawl, I have learned from you. No, I will respectively space out my drinks to one a week, or at least my posts so it looks like I drink only one a week. New Brew Tuesday, yeah you wish you thought of it.

To be honest if you have a refined pallet for beer tasting try sites like Beer Advocate or Rate Beer which I can proudly state gave a similar rating of my first New Brew Tuesday choice of drink. I did learn this fact after I rated my beer so don’t get started on this monkey see monkey do crap up on your high and mighty human high horse. Yeah, that’s right you have to be on a horse to be high up because you can’t do it on your own without the help of an animal. Yet, I digress so without further ado…

Name: Marke Altenmünster Maibock

Price: $7.99 (for the bottle not a six pack)

Made: Kempten, Germany

Alcohol: 7.5% Alc/Vol

The Maibock gave off a sweet almost honey like smell which I believe gave it its’ mild sweetness at first. The premature sweet taste gives way to a smooth dry bitterness a rich beer should have. I liked the label from one animal to another I can appreciate how awesome it must be to be immortalized on a beer bottle. If I were a nit picky monkey I would point out that the red stopper should have been green as well to add balance, but I’m not that shallow to mention such little details.

Overall I would have to give it 3.5 bananas out of 5. It is good, I can’t deny them that but for the cost I don’t know if it is worth purchasing over another typical German ale. There was nothing that stood out enough to warrant the fact that I could buy a six pack of something similar in flavor for close to the same price.

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