Moonlight Lunatic Lager

Brewed by Moonlight Brewing Company
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Fulton, California USA

On tap at Flavor in Santa Rosa. It poured a dark yellow color and was smooth and tasty. good beer

Golden, well made, but lacks anything special. Much better palate than normal lagers.

On tap at 515 in Santa Cruz. Poured into a big pilsener glass. Clear golden amber color with two fingers of tan head. Nice thick lacing and substantial retention. Aromas of bread and caramel malt with some hop citrus that melds nicely. Flavor is bready with some lactic character. A touch of caramel malt and a nice piney hop finish with moderate bitterness. Kinda of like an overhopped Boston Lager. Great balance, perfect carbonation, semidry finish, excellent drinkability.

Poured from tap a slightly hazy light yellow with small white head. Aroma was of hay and barnyard. The flavor was much of the same grassy hay with barnyard notes along with a tart bitterness and a small bit of toast. As for palate, I would call this a palate cleanser because it squeezed most other flavors out of my mouth leaving a puckering tartness. I think I’ll skip this one next time.

On tap at Flavor, Santa Rosa. This is a very nice, tasty, hoppy lager. It is golden with a big, thick white head that lasts for a long time, slowly diminishing to a smaller, foamy head that leaves fairly good lacing. The aroma is malty grain, bread, somewhat sweet with definite piney hops lingering in the back. The taste is malty, bready, with some nut and a pronounced piney hop bitterness soon coming through to balance out the grain sweetness. It has a crisp finish and a long, nice grain/biscuit/nut aftertaste. It is refreshing and crisp, but flavourful, with some complexity, both a good lightly toasted malt and a piney hop bitterness being very prominent. The balance is nice.

On Tap @ Hamilton’s. Pours with a golden body topped by a medium thick, white head wtih lots of lacing. It’s bitter with a slight sweetness from the malt and a grassy hop note. Light bodied, crisp and dry.

On tap at Flavor (restaurant in Santa Rosa). Pours deep golden (slightly darker shade of gold than the Reality Czech) - white head. Grain, light noble hop character in the nose. The overall taste has notes of grain, light caramel, grass and a light twinge of lemon. There is a hop presence but as you would expect not as prominent as with their BoPils. Very clean tasting. Medium bodied with a moderate carbonation level. Good lacing and head retention. Overall a very nice drinkin’ beer.

Tap at Barclays. Pours with a pale golden color and not much of a head. Flavor has some underlying metallic notes, a bit of malts and some grains but not much hops. Aroams are fairly faint, perhaps a bit grainy. Drinkable but nothing to get me excited, I take a decent Pilsener any day.