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I know it's in here somewhere, but whats the thoughts on this beer??

Geoff

Have to say I hated it! To me it tasted like flat fanta that somebody had dropped an dispirin in.

I had gotten two bottles and after tasting the first (I dumped most of it down the sink), I thought that maybe the bottle had gone off and so I tried the second, exactly the same experience.

Maybe I was unlucky and got two dodgy bottles, but unless somebody heaps high praise on it I doubt I'll try it again.

I really like it. Very refreshing. Well balanced, light witbier with the typical citrus flavours.

Geoff was kind enough to give me a try of this tonight. I can't say I liked it very much, but then again I did taste it after drinking a bottle of River Horse's Hop Hazard. I think the main problem I had was the spicing, which was too intense. Someone once said that if you can taste a spice in a beer there's too much in it, and I think Blue Moon might be a case in point. I picked up lots of coriander and a background flavour of cumin (I know, weird), as well as the orange tang that others have talked about. The one aspect I kind of liked was the smoothness, which is unusual for a beer of its type.

I don't drink it on principle - it's basically contrary to what ICB (or Beoir now, I suppose) is trying to do.

Blue Moon is a Coors product misrepresenting itself as a craft beer (literally - read the shelf tags). Not a small brewery bought up by a conglomerate a la InBev, but a beer cooked up in a Coors lab specifically to cash in on a trend.
I remember when this came out in the mid 90s during the microbrew craze in the US (the 2nd wave, really, but who's counting?) along with other macro "craft" imprints like Plank Road Brewery a.k.a. Miller. It all seemed like a cynical and transparent attempt to jump on the bandwagon, and kinda still does.

None of which might matter if Blue Moon tasted good, right? Well, it's meh. Skip it.

"KeeganAles":25gxz615 wrote: I don't drink it on principle - it's basically contrary to what ICB (or Beoir now, I suppose) is trying to do.

Blue Moon is a Coors product misrepresenting itself as a craft beer (literally - read the shelf tags). Not a small brewery bought up by a conglomerate a la InBev, but a beer cooked up in a Coors lab specifically to cash in on a trend.
I remember when this came out in the mid 90s during the microbrew craze in the US (the 2nd wave, really, but who's counting?) along with other macro "craft" imprints like Plank Road Brewery a.k.a. Miller. It all seemed like a cynical and transparent attempt to jump on the bandwagon, and kinda still does.

None of which might matter if Blue Moon tasted good, right? Well, it's meh. Skip it.[/quote:25gxz615]

I'd actually [i:25gxz615]drink it[/i:25gxz615] on principle, since I'd far rather the likes of Coors invested in making decent beers* than continue to push out the same tasteless fizz, and that's only gonna happen if people buy the slightly less tasteless stuff. Quality beer is quality beer after all, and who made it is at most a secondary consideration. That said, I don't like the whole pretending to be a small craft outfit when actually you aren't thing.

*I should point out that I haven't actually tried it yet, so I don't know if it counts as "decent" or "quality" or not.