Moa Breakfast

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

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Hazy yellow, frothy head. Aroma is very floral, some citrus, lots of coriander and nutmeg. Pretty light and crisp. Nice beer at 10AM, just livening up my palate for today’s other beers.

Smells of bubblegum. Flavor is a bit soapy. I generally love nelson hops, but cherry beers have to be done just right to avoid tasting like cough syrup, or in this case soapy. It’s OK, just not a combo I would ever rech for.

Bottle at Dan’s courtesy of Aaron. Thanks man. . .I think. Pour is golden in appearance with no head. Smell is big bubble tape, cough syrup, soap, medicinal, and raspberries. Taste is big cough syrup, dish soap, pepto, tang, and flowers. Mouthfeel is light with high carbonation. Why must Aaron torture me with these beers, wtf.

Pour out of 375 mL bottle, thanks Aaron! Pour is clear yellow with white head, aroma brings notes of robitussen, some bubble tape, hints of vanilla, cherry cola vanilla, touch of earth and cough syrup, yuck. Taste is nasty cough syrup, biscuit, vanilla, bitter grimey medicine notes, finishing with some chalk, alkaline nastiness, finishing bitter and dry and chalky. This is really, really bad.

Bottle @ Dan’s house. Fairly clear yellow appearance with a white head. Spritzy, off brand cherry cola/candy, very carbonated aroma. Tangy, cherry cough syrup, very carbonated, bubble gum flavor. Seriously, what the fuck.

Bottle, this ale had a yellow-gold pour (there was a little haze), and made a two to three finger white head that receded to a thin cover, the glass had a medium or so stream of carbonation in the center, it left some spots and small fingers of lacing on the sides of the glass, and I found a thin partial cover of sediment on the bottom of the bottle, there were aromas of sweet cherry fruit with a little banana and pineapple in the background, wine grapes, it had lots of fruit sweetness, sugary sweetness, the sweetness is sort of overbearing on the nose, it was hard for me to detect any else on the nose, the flavors were wheat, some cherry fruit and a little fruit sweetness, there was a faint bitterness after the finish, the flavor was not as sweet compared to the nose, the mouth feel was light with airy carbonation on the tongue, the nose was very sweet and I could hardly smell anything else, almost an overbearing sweetness, the flavor was not so sweet, and this beer was light and some what refreshing.

375ml bottle, pours golden yellow with a small amount of white head, sugary fruity beer, can taste some wheat but overall forgettable

Really like the grape/cherry aroma taste from the NS hops, soft pillowy floral notes. Light straw in color. Has light touches all throughout, malt holds back and hops stand on their own to showcase the fruitiness of Nelson hops and very light cherry. Complex and well brewed

UPDATED: AUG 2, 2012 Bottle to Weizen glass. I tried to pour slowly but saw a clump of lees leap from the bottle into the glass. Light golden pour that is very effervescent. Looks like a marigold champagne with the tiny bubbles racing to the top of the glass making sure the 1/2 finger white head stays around. Aroma is raspberry, strawberry, honeydew, and pear. Taste is wheat up front followerd by a mixed berry sweetness. Hop bitterness appears at the end of the sip. I didn’t think age would help this beer much but I’m thinking that 6-9 months might be enough time for the flavors,to blend together better than they do today. The berry-like character was a pleasant surprise.

UPDATED: AUG 12, 2012 bottle. lightly hazed golden body, highly effervescent with soda sized bubbles and a tall white head that settles quickly. perfumed floral cider nose has a distinct antacid calcium and fruit quality, at times resembling pink bismuth tablets and other times smelling of berry-scented bath soap. light body starts clean but the calcium, chalky dried bubble gum, banana-flavored candy and floral soap character grows. I don’t find myself enjoying it even though the body and carbonation are nice, it’s the flavor that’s all sorts of yuck, truly.