Blue Moon Pale Moon

Brewed by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Belgian Ale
Golden, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

An interesting and enjoyable twist on the old Blue Moon recipe. Pacific North-Westerners are sure to enjoy.

Dark yellow, clear, huge head. Light, mostly malt aroma. Taste is a tad sweet with malt and a hint of spice. A decent intro Belgian ale but not much more as there’s not enough flavor to get the point across.

Standard taste, nothing great stands out with this beer...certainly not the best of the blue moon series

Blue Moon is a good beer for the price. It is easily accessible to everyone.

12 oz bottle left on my balcony for almost a month from a mix pack a friend brought over. Final of the rateables. Pours a decent hazed golden amber pour, some more glow and dark gold in the edges. A sizable frothy offwhite head is thicker, sticks around as a layer, laces ok overall. Aromas are dry florals and grass, touches of citrus, herbal earthy elements, flaked wheat, pale malts offer a decent sweetness, touch of dryness. A decent hopping, earthy herbal quality that gets a touch heavy as it warms, gets much more doughy and bready too. Initial is weird, offering bready malts, pale malts, flaked wheat, an odd honey note up front. Herbal elements, chamomile, dry grass and floral hops are mellow but stick, giving odd play with the spice. A sticky middle, with more bread, wheat, and touches of fruit and mellow honey. Some dryness into the finish, lingering spice and earthy bland hops play with the herbal elements and it just strikes me odd. Orange peel, some dryness, and florals. The Hibiscus gives a distinct flavor that doesn’t suit my tastes. Dryness and earthy qualities dance out, interchanging with the odd sweetness. Not my thing.

I bought a 12pk Winter variety pack of this from Woodman’s in Janesville, WI in Winter 2011. Pours a copper/amber color with a bubbly head the slowly disappears. Has some mild scents of hops and some grains. Has a slighty bitter tone to the taste. Some bready dough and yeast tastes as well. Has an overall dryer taste than most of the Blue Moon line. Crisp and extremely drinkable, but nothing too special about it. Decent for a Macro-brew, but about average among mirco-brews.

355ml bottle. Pours a copper/amber with a small creamy head. Aroma is some light to medium malts. Taste is medium malt sweetness, light spice, light bitterness with something kind of off in the background, like the pie-filling apple sweetness in the Spiced Amber. Mouthfeel was average. Overall, not a bad beer for a macro, but not very Belgiany. Seemed almost more like a red or an amber.

Amber pour with off-white head. Mild aroma of sweet malts and hops. Flavor was mildly sweet and hoppy with a touch of citrus. Decent pale ale.