Blue Moon Full Moon Winter Ale

Brewed by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Golden, Colorado USA

Uh...yhis Full Moon was a Half Moon in my book. I was disappointed in light of the fact I really like Blue Moon. Was hoping this would be a better quality. It did have kind of a cool color when poured. Lose the brown sugar... it did not help the taste.

Top quality beer for the money. A nice malty and full-flavoered winter ale.

Bottle - Pours dark amber, off-white head. Flavors of sweet malt, spices, carmel, masked hops. Medium bodied - not much to tell via aroma other than smells like sweet malt. Was expecting a bolder flavor for an abbey, but it was just okay.

Poured a clear brownish color with a foamy/bubbly off-white head. Not much aroma, but mainly of Carmel. Aroma reminded me a lot of Coors actually. Taste is very smooth and starts off with some fruity notes. Finish is watery with hints of caramel. Too much carbonation?

Bottle - lol this was a dubbel? It was ok, but I thought it was just supposed to be some weird ale. Interesting to see what coors’ take was on it. The brown sugar was nice. I guess better than regular coors.

12 oz. bottle - $1.29 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia. As it is not yet March 08, 2009, I’ll assume that’s a ’best by’ date. Appearance: Pours a clear, dark, reddish-brown body with a medium-sized, off-white head. Smell: Faintly sugary, ever so roasted, nut-strewn malt nose with some fruit notes and, like the taste, some odd, distant metallic twang. Taste: Lightly roasty, lightly nutty malts with a meager dose of dark Belgian candi sugar for sweetness. A bit of apricot and apple fruitiness. Hint of yeast. There’s a curious, though light metallic kick coursing through this beer -- like smuggling out a rare coin in your mouth. Crisp, lightly roasty finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin. Medium-plus carbonation. Drinkability: It’s no dubbel, that’s for damn sure, but I guess you gotta shove it somewhere. However, it did pair well with the flick It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It does have that going for it.

Ok beer. Good for what it is. The appearance is a reddish brown, decent off-white head. Aroma was light, mainly malts and some molasses. The flavor was somewhat true to the style, with a sweetness imparted from candy sugar, malts, spices. Sweet finish tempered by a small amount of hops. Not bad. More a session beer than a true abbey dubbel in the tradition of ommegang and others.

This was...not a very good beer. Amber color, fizzy head. Five years ago I would have enjoyed this beer, but now it’s below-average.