9 5/16 °P
Moonlight Brewing Company

Side pour in dimple glass at brewery. A wonderful beer.

 

Handsome dark chestnut brown with an exuberance of pale beige foam in the Duvel nonic. Grainy aroma is inviting, like rye bread without the caraway. Slushy, nicely carbonated mouthfeel. Roasted flavors with a charred finish. Quite pleasant for what might be a stout if you were blindfolded. More warm and slightly sweet, though. Quite happily quaffable with the lush mouthfeel. From the 16 oz can purchased at O'Shea Brewing. Dated 01/15/24.

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Soft. But almost too soft. This one is George Foreman. No, not in his prime. And not even in his 40’s during his one last hurrah. This is George after a few too many steaks on the, you guessed it, George Foreman. Sure, the grease drips down. But fat is fat! And 9 5/16° P is in the heavyweight category because Moonlight does the damn thing - but it’s a pure phantom punch. It’s almost not there. Like the chick that ghosted you after you bought her a filet at Ruth’s Chris.

So much whatever, my children.

Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass

A: Pours copper brown with frothy tan head that settles to a light layer and laces very nicely.

S: Roasty, char, coffee, and a touch of cocoa, earthy, peppery spice, herbal pine, hints of dark fruit, a little toasty bready malt, and burnt sugar.

T: Roasty, char, espresso, and faint smoke, earthy, herbal pine, hints of dark fruit and chocolate, toasty bready malt, and a touch of burnt sugar and subtle spice.

M: Light to medium body, moderate carbonation

O: Another quality lager from Moonlight. Kept getting more and more complex as it opened up.

 

This beer reminds me of a late night dinner I had in Prague. I ordered their dark beer, specified on the menu only by gravity and wondered what I got myself into. Now that was the question, and this beer is the answer. It made so much more sense after I had this delicious wonder. Light in abv, full flavored and full bodied. Just an enjoyable beer all around. I will order this every time it’s available. Hopefully it isn’t retired, especially because I was told more was on the way the last time I asked.

 

Canned 26 July. Thanks, Chris!

A clear deep, ruddy brown with a dense, beige head with excellent retention and lacing. The nose is excellent, with a delicate, bready, toasty, malt character, along with a touch of dark brown sugar. Delicate earthy, dusty hops. The palate is impossibly creamy and airy, with a delicate blend of toast, grain, earth, mint and a touch of lemon. Light like spun silk, this a joy on the palate. Drying, mildly bitter with a blend of grain and hop bitterness on the finish. Despite the low ABV, there's a mild heft to the mouthfeel, creamy and luxurious. Awesome.

Nice addition to their portfolio. Full flavored with a nice balance of malt and hops. Most reminiscent to me of a helles or perhaps a Vienna lager but with a little more hop bite. Nice change of pace lager for sure.

Copper/chestnut hur to the liquid with a lovely, sticky head of just amber foam

Nose is mild, like rustic bread dough. A sweet, uncooked bread aroma with a touch of rye like spiciness.

Taste carries that mild rustic bread flavor, but a little less sweet and complimented by nice herbal/floral hop bite. Reminds me of a heavily hopped helles or a pilsner with a touch of darker malt.

Crisp and clean body, fuller than a typical pilsner but not by much.

Reddish brown color. Aroma of dark bready malts, dark cherry, and nut. Taste is fantastic. Very balanced between herbal and noble hops and nice dark malts. Sort of a hybrid of a amber ale and a brown ale. Very tasty.