Moa Breakfast

Brewed by Moa Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Blenheim, New Zealand

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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This beer is one of a kind. The nose is cherry kool-aid but the beer is dry and crisp. The cherry is only experienced in the nose. Very light with striking white head. A good looking beer with a champagne-like character. Not overly bitter, slightly sour and light in a good way.

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2013 Bottle. Pours a hazy orange gold with a finger of quickly settling rocky white head. Aroma is fruity, yeasty, cherry, sweet, bread, slight syrup/medicine. Flavor is sweet wheat and cherries up front fading into mild bitter wheat finish. Slightly syrupy/medicinal after taste. Moderate carbonation, light body, and a slightly crisp but ultimately watery texture. Claims to use natural flavoring but tastes quite artificial to me. A mediocre fruit beer, my least favorite of moa’s offerings.

Location: 12.7 oz cork and caged bottle from Total Wine-McLean, 2/5/13

Aroma: The nose is extremely sweet, with lots of fruit on the nose: berries, cherries, etc
Appearance: It pours a hazed golden-orange color with a small froth of white head
Flavor: It tastes rather sweet, but it has enough of something to keep the sweetness a little in balance
Palate: The body is fairly light, it clean feel, soft-to-average carbonation, and is minimally cloying
Overall Impression: I figured I’d drink this one "mid-afternoon," since that is the time it is most commonly enjoyed. Anyway, this is an interesting one. It is rather sweet and fruity, which is not something I always enjoy, but the fruitiness works pretty well here. Overall, a very solid fruit beer. Even though it is sweet, the sweetness isn’t too cloying. Nicely done. I could see drinking this one for breakfast.

Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Aromas of sugar-free bubble gum and sliced apples. It’s a hazy, blonde copper color with a thin, soapy head. Initial flavors of banana and vanilla, but it has a very unusual transition midway. It has a biting, not-quite-bitter finish. It has a very effervescent, unusual mouthfeel, almost like a sparkling wine.

UPDATED: MAR 15, 2013 Bottle in Auckland from New World Metro
Hazy pale amber with think white head. Slightly tart lime sherbert nose with some wheat spice, Fine carbonation, medium bodied. light bitterness with a kiss of cherry flavour. Dry finish...saisonesque. a nice beer but not sure its for breakfast...

UPDATED: JAN 21, 2013 Wheat beer on tap at Engine 15. Fruity aroma, getting orange and apples (not cherries - perhaps this is a different batch?). Hoppy like an IPA. Decent drinkability.

Bottle. Drank on air during the Bottoms up Dallas radio show - the cork nearly took someone’s eye out upon opening. Golden amber pour with some fluffy head. Nose is bready malt, cherry, wheat. Flavor is fruity and light- would actually work well for breakfast/brunch. Sweet grains, nutty, slightly tart.

Appearance: hazy pale golden color, shallow pale white head that fades quickly Aroma: cherry, fruity, refreshing, fresh, piney Taste: cherry initially, very frothy, a hint of spice on the end, not bitter at all, tart Palate: one of the most frothy and creamy beers I've tried, slight cherry aftertaste, good c02 burn to it Overall: this is fruit beer done right, pretty sweet but would probably make a fine session beer in the summer ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle, pours a golden, bubblegum, banana, aroma, flavour has some bubblegum, and a fruitiness. it had a light tartiness to it as well and it was a bit ruff around the edges, it was drinkable

Hazy pale golden in color with a generous bubbly/foamy head. Interesting nose of candied wheat, sour cherry candy, and a lime-like acidity. Flavor was a little too lagery and biscuit/toast-ish for my liking, but there was also a nice wheatiness with some tangy-tartness and a little of that sour cherry candy as well, with a touch of almonds and lime zest. Kinda tart and biscuity...quite cheeky.