Dixie White Moose

Formerly brewed at Dixie Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
New Orleans, Louisiana USA

(7oz bottle, courtesy of Sledge Jr) Pours a clear golden body with small white head. Looked like a lager, but this was far from the aroma and taste. Halloween reminiscent nose of tootsie roll, candy corn, and caramel. Flavor of white chocolate, malt, and loads of corn syrup once it warms up.... Very interesting, as my friend Tad would say.

Pours gold with a nice white head. Smells of spice, dough, some wheat. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, lots of doughiness on the finish. I really hope this brewery isn’t gone for good. This is an interesting beer.

Poured a brownish color with light bubbles for a head. Aroma of vanilla frosting on birthday cake. Taste was very sweet and cloying. Interesting as a black and tan with Florisgaarden Chocolat.

For what it is, I liked it. So what that it tastes a bit like vanilla icing? That’s all it is though. Knowing that going in, makes liking it a bit easier. There really isn’t a way to describe it except that it tastes like vanilla cake icing, so if you like that, try to find this stuff. It comes in 7 oz bottles (which is probably all you’d want anyway), unless you want to make wedding cake frosting with beer. Tasty though.

In the tiny bottle from Gomer’s. Very sweet and artificial. Pours a pale golden amber with no head at all. In fact, it looks like a cider. The chocolate aroma is big. Smells like hot chocolate and amaretto. It is very mead-like in the palate having a rich sweetness. Reminds me a bit of cream soda. This beer has no semblance of hops whatsoever. Quite unusual and for that it gets big creativity points from me.

Damn! That was odd! Can’t really say I liked it (and I’m usually very tolerant of experimental, sweet products). Chock full of artificial flavors, like drinking a white russian or a milk shake mixed with beer. I give Dixie an "A" for creativity.

16-Oct-06 (7 oz bottle: Purchased in Washington, DC sometime in 2000 or 2001) I bought this bottle of beer before I moved to San Diego in the summer of 2001, so this is some pretty damn old stuff. I didn’t intentionally try to age this beer six years, I just could never find a beer to pair with it for a rating session. Well, enough’s enough. The beer pours dark golden in color, fairly hazy in appearance, and capped by a very thin whitish film that dissipates very quickly. But without even putting my nose near the glass, the aroma of extraordinarily sweet almond extract jumps out of the glass. The first sip confirms this. Sweet Jesus, this could easily substitute in a pinch for your cake recipe! It’s taken me several sips, but now I’ve finally figured out exactly what this beer tastes like: the well-known and tasty aperitif by Sonoma Valley Portworks called Duet, a cream sherry with natural hazelnut. So rather than tasting like white chocolate, I guess the six years has oxidized this beer to the point of making it taste like sherry. Really, at no point does this make me think I’m drinking beer -- it’s not the least bit malty, hoppy or bitter, it’s minimally carbonated, and the full-on sweet hazelnut never relinquishes its hold as the dominant flavor. Frankly, I find it pretty enjoyable, but I love dessert wines like sherry. Body is somewhat heavy at first, almost syrupy, but thins considerably in the finish. I never drank this beer when it was freshly bottled, but with it tasting like hazelnut cream sherry, I’ll go out on a limb here and say this has improved greatly over the six years.

Clear gold, frothy white head and decent lace. Nose is ’White Chocolate, sweet, quite appealing. Start is sugary sweet, the top light, the finish is sweet, lightly acidic, very light hop under tone as its buried beneath the taste of ’Sweet White Chocolate’, definately a desert beer, but not totally atrocious as I imagined.