Blue Moon Full Moon Winter Ale

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

12oz bottle, best by March 09. Medium beige head that mostly dissipates to a creamy coating, crystal clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, candi sugar, caramel. Taste is moderately sweet, brown sugar, caramel, light astringency. Creamy light-medium body, light acidity.

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 10/10/2008 Floral aroma. Bronze golden coloured and malty with some bitterness in a crisp and slightly dry finish.

Bottle… Clear amber ale with orange highlights and a mid-sized, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. Toffee, caramel, praline nose with lesser notes of ginger, cinnamon, and earthy hops… with a whisper of diacetyl. Medium caramel sweetness with mild earthy bitterness and winter spiciness. Medium to full-bodied with a prickly mouthfeel. Sweet, minerally finish. Good thing I don’t rate to style. Not even remotely dubbel-like, other than the sweetness. All that aside, probably a bit underrated.

(12oz. bottle) Pours a clear amber body with a medium beige head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, brown sugar, and toasted grain. Flavor of caramel, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.

12 oz bottle-pours a foamy to rocky light tan head that laces and copper/orange color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel, at first pour a hint of spice, some bready. Taste is medium malt-caramel, some bready, secondary earthy(English)/spicy hops. Light side of medium body. OK carbonation.

12 oz bottle. Pale golden beer with a white head. Aroma is malty and lightly spicy. Some soft cinnamon and toasted malts. A light chocolate character despite the pale appearance. Fairly industrial malts with a bit of clove/nutmeg and spice. Toasty and sweet. A bit of honey. Not bad, but not good either.

12oz bottle. Pours clear medium dark brown color with a near-white head. Nose and flavors have some sort of plasticy grain quality, along with some vegetal notes and some strange milky yeast. Difficult to describe but honestly this beer doesn’t deserve any effort. It’s pale, thin, empty and pallid. Has nearly nothing going for it.

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.