Blue Moon Brewing Company Grand Cru

Grand Cru

 

Blue Moon Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.53
ABV: 8.2% IBU: - Ticks: 20
In Belgium, a Grand Cru is traditionally brewed for special celebrations. This holiday season, there’s definitely something to celebrate: a blue moon on New Year’s Eve. To honor this rare event, we’ve brewed a limited-edition Blue Moon Grand Cru in the US. This small-batch, Artfully Crafted brew incorporates subtle hints of orange peel and coriander and delivers a warm, spicy finish. Garnish with an orange slice and celebrate.
 

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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sampled at the January ’10 Metro Detroit tasting. Thanks to whoever brought this! Poured a cloudy gold with a medium white head. Aroma had notes of citrus peel, coriander, and light fruit. Flavor was subdued at the start but a spicy finish led by the coriander.

Tried on 14 Jan 2010 at 10:06


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours hazy gold with a foamy white head. Light aromas of citrus zest and a bit of spice. Medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is a litte bready, a little banana, some definite citrus zest. Pretty good. Leaves a bit of herb in the mouth.

Tried on 11 Jan 2010 at 18:02


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

22 oz bomber from Bevmo Salinas. Nose of banana, yeast, spices, and white bread. Murky yellow orange with a medium pale yellow head. Flavor is pepperiness, banana, cloves, and yeasty breadiness.

Tried on 11 Jan 2010 at 17:10


6.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Once Upon a Vine - North on 12/23/2009. Cloudy orange body with a medium frothy white head. Sweet orange and spice aroma. Big fruit and spice flavor with some lemon hints. Medium body with moderately high carbonation. Really not a bad beer, but at $8 a bottle, priced way too high for what it is.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2010 at 17:04


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Sweet orange/lemon and wheat malt aroma. Cloudy orange-yellow color with small head. Sweet orange/lemon and wheat malt flavor with light orange peel finish. Nice but not worth the price.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2009 at 03:03


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750 ml. bottle. Pours a nice hazy orange color with a medium sized white fluffy head. Dissipates quickly. Aroma is orange, spices, yeast. Flavor is the same orange, spice, yeast flavor that Blue Moon has, noticeable alcohol increase. A good step forward for a macro, especially compared to the really fake tasting BL "Wheat" I had this past weekend.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2009 at 22:06


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle thanks to mar. Pours with a hazy golden body and a large white head. Aroma of coriander and spice with clove and a dry champagne note. Taste is quite sweet with coriander, clove, and is really not that bad at all. Light to medium carbonation. Dryish finish considering the sweetness. Not bad!

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2009 at 18:10


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours gold into a snifter. Coriander aromas. Full with warming wheat, coriander and a lasting dry marshmallow finish.

Tried on 29 Nov 2009 at 14:01


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750 ml bottle. 2009 bottle. Faint aromas of banana esters, wheat. Pours hazy gold with a medium white head which dissipates somewhat quickly, leaving a large circular pattern of foam on the top of the beer; it looks like a giant golden eyeball looking at me in my Chimay Trappist glass--or maybe a boob; good lacing. Tastes of citrus, alcohol. Alcohol warms the back of the throat. Somewhat sweet. Full-bodied creamy mouthfeel. Has a bitter finish. Not bad, not great.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2009 at 12:50


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Faint babyfood banana and lemongrass aroma. Opaque golden with a thick puffy white head. Strong coriander upfront, volatile at midpalate, stale wheat malt and grass finish. Hats off to MC for making a decent beer. It’s not spectacular, but it is head and shoulders above their usual products.

Tried on 28 Nov 2009 at 11:35