Harvest Moon
Crow Mountain in Essen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.45
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beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle. Light Gusher! A clear dark golden beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramelized malt, mild reddish malt. Taste of caramel, reddish malt, rye, moderate spicy bitterness.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Golden color. Floral maltaroma. Malty sweet floral flavor with tangerine and marmelade. Fairly well balanced, slightly sticky,
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a slight funk suggesting it may be slightly infected. Otherwise a moderately bitter beer with a metallic aftertaste.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home. Hazy orange golden color, medium sized off-white head that diminishes fairly quickly. Smell and taste some malts, herbal bitter, herbal hoppy, bitter. Decent body and carbonation. Ok beer, but not really a nice APA imo.
77ships (14509) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml. bottle from De Caigny. BBF 14/02/2019. Clear golden, soapy white head. Nose is soap, plastic, fish guts, strongly plastic BE, bit sweat, low sweat. Taste is plastic, oily, faint fish guts overly vegetable plastic oil, low tropical hops in the back, they are lost in the heavy oil, plastic, grain soup,... Body is soft low carbonation, heavily plastic oily. I feel that when USA breweries make beers like these they use the blandest possible yeast & malt and let the hops do their work, BE brewers largely (speaking in generalities & about the more classical ones) tend to use to many specific malts & yeast(s) and they just don’t work with the fruity hops. I am definitely interested by a new BE commission brewery starting with an APA but internationally this one doesn’t hold up in my opinion. As far as the commission goes, I am happy that they state the actual brewery on the bottle but there was no way of gathering that info from the press releases. We are long past the need of secrecy, people aren’t taking back by you brewing your beer elsewhere.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The first beer from this new micro brewery near Essen, north of Antwerp; apparently first brewed during a full moon, hence the name. Made with barley, wheat, rye, oats and spelt and hopped with Tomahawk, Vanguard and El Dorado - nice to see a new brewery start off with an APA (even though in a specialty grain guise) rather than your ordinary Belgian blonde or tripel. Bottle from De Caigny, close to the source (Van Oevelen also sells it). Medium thick, egg-white, regularly shaped head, stable on the edge with patches of lacing but opening in the middle, over an initially cristal clear, pure light orangey ’old gold’ coloured beer with some thin string of fizz here and there, quickly shifting to hazy pale orange with sediment. Rather restrained but soon soapy and herbal aroma of unripe hard and green banana, lightly toasted white bread, dried grapefruit peel, slight bubblegum, soapy wheat, popcorn, raw (unpickled) gherkin peel, dried violet flowers, hint of granadilla, fresh calamus root, green apple, unripe green melon, camomile tea, even (cold) green tea ’tout court’, starfruit, hand soap, freshly ironed linen, cumin seed. Crisp, juicy onset, green pear, unripe banana and hard nectarine fruitiness so not sweet and no exaggerated isoamylacetate at all, very basic and light sourishness, slick and soapy mouthfeel with somewhat ’stinging’ but not overdone carbonation, yet still establishing a notably minerally effect. The usage of multiple grains is soon clear: some bready ’pale’ maltiness alright, but just as much soapy wheat, soft silky oats, spicy ’soggy brown bread’-ish rye and grainy spelt, all coming together in a somewhat sharpish graininess, made smooth by the oats. Some spicy phenols and lingering ’unripe fruit’ aspects persist in the finish over a somewhat resiny, leafy, bit spicy hop bitterness, herbal (almost green tea-like), floral (as in camomile) and a tad citrusy, but not nearly as ’orangey’ and tropical fruit-like as I had hoped - I guess the El Dorado was very economically applied here. Still a nice dry, florally bitter finish, though, with the expected quenching effect; the soapiness of the wheat lingers beyond that. A tad too soapy and grainy for me personally and I must admit that with this array of prestigious hop varieties, I expected something far more aromatic; this is very clearly much closer to your average Belgian blonde (or even saison in a ’clean’ kind of way) than to anything genuinely APA-like, in spite of the good intentions; I think emphasizing the hops instead of all those grains would have been a better option. Style issues apart, however, this is a technically very well-accomplished, if not perfectly executed blonde, no flaws to be seen here, which in itself deserves a lot of merit in comparison with many other ’new Belgians’. Have a point for that and because of its technical accomplishment alone, I will keep a close watch on this brewery from now on, who knows what may happen if one day, they present us with a full-fledged American style IPA...
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours clear, full colored blonde. Good and seemingly stable white head. Smell is refined, mild maltyness. A very, very distant, very mild aroma I have a hard time naming. Something in the lines of cleaning products -fruityness ( i know how awefull this sounds, but I can’t think of another way to describe it. Chemical def doesn’t pinpoint this scent ) . Taste is very mild. Soft maltyness, mild hoppyness. Touch fruity hops. decently bitter, but a very mellow, unintense taste appart from that. Higher carbonation than i would have wanted.
Icedwarf (4944) reviewed Harvest Moon from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Oranjegeel bier met mooie schuimkraak. Smaak is bitter hoppig en fris fruitig met iets van grapefruit en ananas. Mooie balans in smaken.