Blue Moon Belgian White Ale

I give Coors credit for realizing that they need to try something new. Some fruit, coriander, and banana odors. Tastes wheaty, citrusy, fruity, and smooth at the finish. Not bad.

Smells like bread? Maybe. Spice and fruit? No to my nose. Hazy peach color with a decent white head. Starts with a carbonation hit, and as that goes away the medium body thins. There’s something like stone fruit, something hinting of yeast, something hinting of spice. Mostly all hints. Maybe lemon in the finish. Maybe. Damn drinkable, but this is to a Belgian wit, as Bud is to beer. Pretty drinkable though, and I wouldn’t turn down a free bottle.

Bottle at home ... a very odd find in sainsburys... and very welcome due to a thread on this and one of the buds as some peoples idea of good beer ... Nice hazy golden yellow ... spicy bubblegum... way tooo fizzy destroys any flavour in its fizz ... defizzing you get a slightly medicinal yeasty bubble gum ... drinkable even plesent but not really me.

Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is hazy dark yellow, bottle conditioned. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), with notes of orange and coriander, light note of solvent. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter, slightly unclean, slightly husky. Light to medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Second review and I still don't know how anyone is rating this above average. The hints of soiled mattress and broom handle mar the finish, and the problem with the aroma, as with Cave Creek Chili, is that they use spices to cover up a poor base beer. This is the same principle restaurants use to cover up shitty tap water...by adding a lemon wedge. It's like putting a fedora and Armani on a corpse...it may be slightly more aesthetically pleasing, but it's still dead inside.

Bottle. Medium highh creamy lasting white head. Hazy light yellow green body. Banana, abrricot, lemon aroma. Heavily carbonated acidic lemon flavor. Short aftertaste.

The perfect-looking wit, cloudy and straw-colored with a nice snowy head. Aroma would be perfect if stronger -- again, typical lemon/cardamom zestiness. Flavor a bit weak -- lacks something, I’m not sure what; finish a bit weak. A good try.

surprisingly decent. plenty of coriander in the aroma, light lemon meringue taste, a bit thin for the style but better than most american wits i tasted and much better than i expected anything on the coors brewery tour would be

A mass marked version of the style, not near the complexity of Hoegaarden, Celis, or Upland. Cloudy pale yellow with a little head, no lace, thin-bodied. Some citrus and spice hints on the nose. Sweeter than most witbiers, smooth. A coy bread-like taste lingers on the palate.