Dixie White Moose

Formerly brewed at Dixie Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
New Orleans, Louisiana USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Pours gold with a nice white head. Smells of spice, dough, some wheat. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, lots of doughiness on the finish. I really hope this brewery isn’t gone for good. This is an interesting beer.

16-Oct-06 (7 oz bottle: Purchased in Washington, DC sometime in 2000 or 2001) I bought this bottle of beer before I moved to San Diego in the summer of 2001, so this is some pretty damn old stuff. I didn’t intentionally try to age this beer six years, I just could never find a beer to pair with it for a rating session. Well, enough’s enough. The beer pours dark golden in color, fairly hazy in appearance, and capped by a very thin whitish film that dissipates very quickly. But without even putting my nose near the glass, the aroma of extraordinarily sweet almond extract jumps out of the glass. The first sip confirms this. Sweet Jesus, this could easily substitute in a pinch for your cake recipe! It’s taken me several sips, but now I’ve finally figured out exactly what this beer tastes like: the well-known and tasty aperitif by Sonoma Valley Portworks called Duet, a cream sherry with natural hazelnut. So rather than tasting like white chocolate, I guess the six years has oxidized this beer to the point of making it taste like sherry. Really, at no point does this make me think I’m drinking beer -- it’s not the least bit malty, hoppy or bitter, it’s minimally carbonated, and the full-on sweet hazelnut never relinquishes its hold as the dominant flavor. Frankly, I find it pretty enjoyable, but I love dessert wines like sherry. Body is somewhat heavy at first, almost syrupy, but thins considerably in the finish. I never drank this beer when it was freshly bottled, but with it tasting like hazelnut cream sherry, I’ll go out on a limb here and say this has improved greatly over the six years.

My wifes favorite beer.

This rating is based on a mix with guinness stout. Way too everything to drink on its own. Disappointing to see a beer that says artificial flavors on the label. One bottle of this to one can of draught Guinness and you have a tasty dessert for 4. Do try it with friends, you won’t be able to do 22 oz of this mix on your own, let alone 7 oz unmixed.

This beer should not be rated so low as the others. It was a fairly light, sweetish ale with a faint hint of white chocolate. Could have a little more punch, but it was very good.

UPDATED: JUN 2, 2006 I have never had a beer before that tasted so much like white chocolate in all of my life. Sweet and chocolately and no that much alcohol. I love this stuff. I am pretty sure it’s not made anymore.

Aside from being sticky-sweet in aroma, taste, and texture, this is not a bad product. Would be great boiled down and poured over angel food cake. At $8 for 28 oz., it’s a tad pricey.

Yellow color no head. Vanila aroma is just like the smell of cake mix before its baked. Taste is also like cake mix with some sourness. You could say it was cream soda on steriods