F*ck blue moon. F*ck in its eyesocket.
I love hoegaarden, also wittekerke.
F*ck blue moon. F*ck in its eyesocket.
i am aparently not a wit beer fan. Had a hoegarden last night and I'd rather drink from a hoe in a garden.. ugh!
i am aparently not a wit beer fan. Had a hoegarden last night and I'd rather drink from a hoe in a garden.. ugh!
Try an Allagash White, St Bernardus Wit, or if you want a bigger wit try the Brooklyn Grand Cru.
blue moon just seems overly spiced.
After keeping an eye out forever, I finally found a place that sells Celis White near me and I got to taste it for the first time. I am quite impressed to say the least (compared to other Wits at least).
As for Blue Moon, it's certainly introduced the masses to a unique beer flavor combination (coriander and orange peel), but from what I understand, it's brewed with American ingredients and a clean fermenting ale yeast. With that said, you'd be hard pressed to approximate the benchmark Wits brewed in Belgium with Belgian ingredients.
After keeping an eye out forever, I finally found a place that sells Celis White near me and I got to taste it for the first time. I am quite impressed to say the least (compared to other Wits at least).
With that said, you'd be hard pressed to approximate the benchmark Wits brewed in Belgium with Belgian ingredients.
Forgive me if this has been asked before, and I did do a search. Blue Moon kinda tastes like a cloudy Coors Light. I would like to make a Wit and will be really dissapointed if it tastes like Blue Moon.
I love hoegaarden, also wittekerke.
One problem I have with Allagash is their price for 4 bottles is more than 6 of a very decent alternative (in my opinion of course).
Pierre Celis is the man who revived Hoegaarden before coming to America and establishing another Belgian brewery - Celis, of course - complete with Belgian brewers and Belgian ingredients, who is virtually single-handedly responsible for the style even being extant. And both of his beers get lumped into the "ho-hum" category in favor of beers that shouldn't even be compared with traditional Witbier And both of his beers get lumped into the "ho-hum" category in favor of beers that shouldn't even be compared with traditional Witbier. Brooklyn's Grand Cru and Double White are completely different beers. They're too BIG to be Witbier.
I use to like Blue Moon when it started to get notariety, but then I found that Coors made it and it was not as intersting (Blue Moon (beer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) ) I just can't convince myself to pay a craft price for a coors no matter if it is better than their major sellers or not.
Don't get me wrong, when they are free or it is the best thing at a local bar and it's happy hour, but I'm not going to pay $7-9 for a sixer of it.
It also look like Bud has jumped on the bandwagon with their shocktop Shock Top Belgian White - Anheuser-Busch, Inc. - BeerAdvocate I do like theirs better and I have a bar here that has it for $1 all day/every day.
I believe that Blue Moon as bought by Coors, but before they bought it, the company spent considerable time making a great tasting, if not spot on, Wit.
Remember that nobody makes the same beer as everyone else, and there is room to play within a style.
I believe Pierre Celis moved on from MBC after helping them with the recipe for Celis White, and last i heard he was somewhere in Texas doing some more helping??
And ShockTop is not very good IMO. More like an orange wheat beer than a Wit I think.
Great lakes holy moses is another that I enjoy. It probably gets voted in the same so-so range as hoegaarden, but I love that beer too, so I guess its just my taste.
I find humann_brewing's reaction sillly: he says he liked the beer until he found out Coors made it and now he won't buy it. That makes no sense to me, if you like the beer what does it matter who makes it? But I guess that's exactly the sort of elitism they were attempting to prevent by not advertising it as part of the Coors line.
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