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MoonRay
Terrapin Beer Company
- From:
- Terrapin Beer Company
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Weizenbock
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 12.19%
- Reviews:
- 28
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 14, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 14, 2014
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 17
Sometimes things get a little weird when there's a full moon. Floating into "Side Project 22" comes "Moonray" Chocolate Orange Weizenbock. Our rendition of this traditional style is clearly a hoax with the addition of cocoa nibs and orange peel for a greater depth of flavor. With its big malt presence and hint of banana from the yeast, this beer may just make you howl at the moon.
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Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
2.83/5 rDev -21.6%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -21.6%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
**
10/20/2014
Bottle to goblet.
Appearance: cloudy brownish water, no head, floating sediment globules, fully suspended, not sinking.
Aroma: sweet and sour, chocolate, prunes, yeast.
Taste : strange combo. Chocolate is there, but obviously not strong like in a stout. Orange way in the back. Some yeasty belgian wang coming thru. Mostly i taste dark fruits, prune, fig, raisin.
Feel: medium carb. A little " slimy/oily", but thin, so not disgusting. Late bite of alcohol.
Not terrible, but definitely disappointing for Terrapin. A guess that’s why these are side projects.
**
Mar 24, 201710/20/2014
Bottle to goblet.
Appearance: cloudy brownish water, no head, floating sediment globules, fully suspended, not sinking.
Aroma: sweet and sour, chocolate, prunes, yeast.
Taste : strange combo. Chocolate is there, but obviously not strong like in a stout. Orange way in the back. Some yeasty belgian wang coming thru. Mostly i taste dark fruits, prune, fig, raisin.
Feel: medium carb. A little " slimy/oily", but thin, so not disgusting. Late bite of alcohol.
Not terrible, but definitely disappointing for Terrapin. A guess that’s why these are side projects.
**
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
3.29/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours opaque, dark brown in color with one inch head. Taste is banana, dark bread, and a touch of orange. Boozy, medium heavy bodied, and sweet. Decent, but wish there was more orange.
Oct 01, 2016Reviewed by OrestesMethuon from Montana
3.41/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours absolutely thick with sediment from a cellar-temperature bomber; indeed, "chunky floaters", as a previously reviewer described them, is pretty apt: it really gives the appearance that a tablespoon of orange zest found its way into the bottle. I know better, but the taste matches that notion: a buoyant bitter-orange florality is the primary flavoring component, backed by a silky chocolate backbone that's pretty entirely fused with the expected malt-fruitiness expected from a Weizenbock—fused to an extent that the Weizenbock characteristics are pretty overridden.
It's an interesting beer—not unpalatable, certainly—but it's a little too much along several axes, and a little not enough along others. The mouthfeel is somehow both a bit syrupy and a bit thin; the prominence of the chocolate exaggerates as the beer warms and sits with you; and while there is a "hint of banana from the yeast" on the nose, there's much more than a hint of the yeast in the beer itself. Still, Terrapin admits this Side Project (#22) "is clearly a hoax" of a rendition of the style, so some deviations are forgivable; nonetheless, it seems "the addition of cocoa nibs and orange peel for a greater depth of flavor" failed to actually provide much depth of flavor, beyond big orange and thick cacao notes, so it's hard to be especially enthused about this Moonray.
Nov 28, 2014It's an interesting beer—not unpalatable, certainly—but it's a little too much along several axes, and a little not enough along others. The mouthfeel is somehow both a bit syrupy and a bit thin; the prominence of the chocolate exaggerates as the beer warms and sits with you; and while there is a "hint of banana from the yeast" on the nose, there's much more than a hint of the yeast in the beer itself. Still, Terrapin admits this Side Project (#22) "is clearly a hoax" of a rendition of the style, so some deviations are forgivable; nonetheless, it seems "the addition of cocoa nibs and orange peel for a greater depth of flavor" failed to actually provide much depth of flavor, beyond big orange and thick cacao notes, so it's hard to be especially enthused about this Moonray.
MoonRay from Terrapin Beer Company
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
166 ratings
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