Space Nectar
Moonraker Brewing Co.

 

 

Can pour - milky and murky yellowish juice, foamy white head, frosty and foamy lacing. Nose is citrus and tropical fruit. Taste follows with a tiny hint of malt but mostly a cornucopia of fruit flavors that linger on the finish.

Can 6 weeks old, stored cold

Pours a cloudy cream orange with a finger of foamy head that slowly dissipates to a thin ring with some lacing. Aroma of pineapple and citrus. Taste follows nose.

 

Here's a beer picked up at the end of summer, kept pounding it into early fall. Had good shelf life.

Pours a firmly entrenched haze of yellow. 1" white head. Ample retention especially for style. The aroma kicks down some sticky pineapple, grapefruit, weed, orange, tangerine, lychee. Its very good.

The taste continues to push the juicyfruit like hop notes. Sticky mouth feel indicative of the nectar imagery and namesake. I guess the experimental hop might be the space angle, who knows. Also starting to get some stone fruit out of it. Really a plethora of fruity hop notes from all over the globe. Body is really light, carbonation is right. Pretty much everything stays out of the way to allow the hops to shine.

Continues to be just as good as the sexier more hyped stuff.

 

Canned 02/02/21

Appearance - Pours hazy and dull orange-yellow, with an off-white, half finger width head. Fair retention results in a thin, broken layer of suds, thickening up around the edge of the glass. Good lacing, with broken sheeting devolving to patches, lines and small spotting.

Smell - Fragrant aroma burst from the can as it's cracked and poured into the glass. Citrusy, tropical and with some very mild earth and yeasty character.

Taste - Notes of orange, pineapple and mango upfront before lesser peachiness mid-taste. Grapefruit creeps into the finish, along with a hint of fresh pine. Aftertaste evens out the flavor profile as it dies down, with light malt character and yeast finding it's place there.

Mouthfeel - Medium-to-full bodied with low carbonation. Slick, easy drinker before a slightly dry finish.

Overall - Not their best, but another solid winner of a hazy from Moonraker.

*Aroma: Pleasant, fragrant, citrus, hoppy
*Looks: Pale Amber, Hazy, 1.5 finger head
*Taste: Very balanced, floral/hoppy, awesome drinkability, balanced carbonation that’s easy on palate
*Overall* Beautifully balanced IPA. Well made.

Pale hazy yellow with a full white head and lacing. Lemongrass, huge pineapple, mango, orange, and lychee, light peach and generally bitter hops. Taste is much the same, hops are sharp but very nondescript but well balanced. body is refreshingly light and crisp, bright juiciness and hop bitters from the ground textures of the beer, but a bit bland feeling

 

 

 

 

A most interesting beer. It tastes like a warm oatmeal cereal with a kick. I’d have this for breakfast with a coffee brew to complement it. I don’t think of space. I think of breakfast!

 

Can poured into a Russian River Brewing Co pint glass

A: Pours hazy golden amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer than hangs around, leaving some thick lacing.

S: Ripe tropical and stone fruit, a little citrus,

T: Juicy tropical and stone fruit, mango, peach, guava, apricot, passion fruit, and a hint of pineapple, citrus, orange, grapefruit, and lemon, slightly grassy, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.

M: A bit on the fuller side of medium body, moderate carbonation,

O: This one is tasty and checks the boxes for a NE IPA. That said, it doesn't really stand out from the crowd. I'd happily drink it all day long, but I'll probably remember the label more than the liquid.

L: Hazy yellow, zero clarity. 2 fingers of head with glorious amounts of lacing.
S: Grassy, citrusy and pineapple with mild yeast presence.
T: Really nice. PIthy citrus upfront with pineapple and lemongrass at the finish. Hop bite at the finish with grassy aftertaste with lemon lingering.
F: LIght in body, light to medium in weight. No booze, moderate carbonation.
O: I am really liking it. Simple, tasty and enjoyable. Really awesome can art as well. I am very glad to try. Cheers!

Pretty basic. Unfortunately a lot of Moonraker beers just taste the same. It’s like smashing Sarah, and then later plugging her twin sister Tara. It’s ok, but it’s like her twin, ya know? Faint citrus, and lil dead grass like Elvis passed out on the front yard…

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