Moonshot

Formerly brewed at Matt Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Utica, New York USA

12 oz bottle. Oh goody, another gimmick beer. Why am I such a sucker for this type of shit? Anyway, clear gold with a small white head. Biscuity nose with a hint of lemon and grass. Sweet biscuit flavor, too sweet, with a small grassy hit of hops. Finish is, um, absent. Seriously. Like you drank Perrier - that carbonated bubbly feeling, but that’s it. Meh. Not nearly as bad as anticipated, but still a weak ass beer.

Tasted like a Budweiser. Smelled like a Budweiser. Didn’t get a caffeine kick but don’t feel like I drank a beer. Nice novelty.

12 ounce bottle from City Market in Burlington VT, contents liberated just above fridge temperature into a Michelob glass, which is probably too good for them. Soft, creamy but very small head atop a bubbly weak golden clear body.....nose is cheap Pillsbury biscuits and warm flat old Sprite....flavor tastes like putting that Sprite and those biscuits in a blender at high speed, then straining it into a melty plastic container, leaving that in the sun for a few days, then force-carbonating it or perhaps just adding some very fizzy tonic water. Throw in a half-teaspoon of artificial lime juice and, voila! An obvious candidate for Beer of the Year.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium golden color with a small white head that faded quickly. The aroma is sour skunky malts. The flavor is sour and tangy macro malts with an icky tangy finish. Yuck.

It’s this simple: if you ever enjoyed the Drew Carey Show, you thought to yourself what it’d be like to drink caffeinated beer. This is such a beer.

Bottle. Clear yellow with a small white head that goes away quickly and doesn’t lace. Nose: weak floral hops and Cheerios, with slight herbal overtones. The taste reminds me of Budweiser .’Nuff said.

Very clear with a yellow hue; thin, quickly fading head. Strangely skunky at first, but the aroma fades away quickly. Crisply carbonated; thin body; wet finish. Light and dry malt flavors; notes of bland crackers. Curiously fruity, with a hint of something that kind of tastes like lime. Touch of sourness, too. Bitterness is very mild. Nothing special, but fairly easy to drink. Much better than that B to the e stuff.

Head is initially small, fizzy, white, fully diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain/cereal), lightly hoppy (flowers), with notes of plastic and DMS. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter, unclean. Light to medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Terrible, just terrible. Chemical smell, watery, thin, fizzy, artificially sweet.