Blue Moon Pale Moon

Brewed by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Belgian Ale
Golden, Colorado USA

Despite my general displeasure with Blue Moon labeled beers, I felt it worth the price of a single to try this one. Sadly, my instincts, overly friendly after years of not drinking Blue Moon, were faulty. This is a misguided effort. I really don’t understand the point of a beer like this. It lacks the flavors to put it at the level of the mass produced craft beers (i.e. Sam Adams, etc.). But it also lacks the inexpensive quality of your BMC type beers. Personally, I’d rather have a Coors Light than this. I’d pay less, it wouldn’t taste much worse, and I’d not be disappointed by the misleading use of the word "Belgian" on the label. This is wholly inadequate. It’s more akin to that Budweiser "American Ale" than anything worthy of being called a Belgian beer. The appearance, without question, is the highlight here, earning middle of hte road marks. It’s a decent copper color, with a respectable if quickly fading head. The nose is also reasonable...it hints at Belgian characteristics of yeast and spice. But this only serves to raise my expectations. Flavor...I’m still waiting for it to arrive. There’s just very little flavor, here. I’d call it mediocre if it danced on my palate long enough to leave an impression. As is, there’s little here deserving of comment. The highlight? I only bought a single. Thank the Lord.

Not really a BAD beer. Just not real exciting. Nice copper color, decent flavor, a bit fruity, but just average.

Bottle from BevMo! Dark amber to copper colored body. The head was slightly off white. The aroma was light orange peels and hazelnuts. A taste of light orange peel was mixed with a little bit of salty leather. There were also some light hints of mango in the finish.

This beer smells great coming out of the bottle, but found it a bit downhill from there. Appearance is very nice, actually looks like a good pale ale. The spiciness and fruitiness in the aroma is only negligible after the initial pour. Flavor is a bit unbalanced, sweet malt somewhat overpowers the citrusy flavor underneath, sweet smoothness of a belgian ale is still evident in the finish.

Looks great, smells greats, taste is average. Sweet and yeasty, mostly watered down though.

Copper body with a thin white head that had some lacing but not much. Aroma had nice biscuit notes but thats it, no real fruit notes or any other malt notes to it for that matter. Flavor had some fruit to it and some bread notes, it was very watered down.

Orage-copper color with cream-white head. Fruity, gain, grass flavor. Good beer.

Fruity aroma with a hint of evergreen hops. Orange pour with a creamy white head and lace. Medium malt, Belgian yeast, and a medium light bitter. Decent carbonation and medium bodied. Pretty solid drinkable beer.