Blue Moon Full Moon Winter Ale

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

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days before I was a beer snob when I would have thought this was a phenomenal brew. However, now my opinion is that it’s decent overall, but has a little too much of a (beer snob alert!) macro character. Pours a medium brown with a small white head. Aroma is sweet malt and some winter spices. Flavor is roasted malt, nuts, and spices. Fairly subdued. Medium on the palate. Not bad overall, but calling this a "dubbel" is a stretch.

Pours reddish brown with a smallish white head. Aroma is sweet with a bit of yeast. Mouth feel is medium with a good amoutn of carbonatioin. Falvor is pretty one dimensional with sweet malt dominating. While this was not offensive it tasted nothing like a Belgain Abbey ale. Sad, since I really think the original Blue Moon is a good example of it’s style.

From a bottle poured dark amber witjh a fair amount of head. Nice toasted malt flavor with a quick finish.

Pours ruby brown. Thin head. Earthy malty aroma. Flavour is nutty dark roast malt and sweetness of the sugar. A light woody bitterness keeps some balance. A little rough in the finish

Bottle - Poured a a clear, dark ruby red amber in color with a small off-white head. A small amount of lacing on the glass. Aroma is malty and slightly sweet with a small hint of Belgian yeastiness. Flavor is also a bit sweet, but with some hops providing an OK balance. Not strongly flavored, a bit thin, but a good drinking beer... not heavy at all. Definitely not a "dubbel" at 5.6%... actually could be a good "session" beer...

Bottle from Liquor Stop in Highland, IN. This seems a bit lightweight to be called a Dubbel, a claim not made on the bottle (mayhaps an admin needed the style tick), but it’s not a bad drink. It pours a clear reddish brown body with a fizzy pale tan head that soon reduces to a ring. It smells of sweet bread coated with molasses with a splash of runny caramel and a light floral scent. It’s a bit thin and delivers flavors reflective of the nose with perhaps a touch more caramel. Sweet finish. Okay.

Bottle on 12/20/2008 from Food Lion in Varina, VA. Very clear dark copper body with a large frothy off-white head. Sweet sugar and corn aroma with some caramel malts. Sweet caramel and light molassas flavor, a bit sugary with some slight roasted malt hints. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.

12oz bottle from Publix Supermarkets (Tampa, FL). Pours a hazy dark brown color with thin white-tan head. Aroma is malty and sweet with notes of caramel, molasses and floral hops. Flavor is also malty and sweet with some notes of chocolate, caramel, honey and ripe dark fruit. Generally light to medium body with a fairly quick finish. Better than I expected and definitely a beer from Blue Moon that I can drink on occasion.