Mounting Evidence
Moonlight Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Gruit Regular|
Score
6.87
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours clear coppery brown with a decent light tan head. Aroma is sort of a combo of phenol and evergreen. Med ++ body; nice, smooth carbonation. Flavor is kind of wintergreen. Or maybe Geranium. With some roasty medium dark malt, and arguably a bunch of other things. I’ll call it fairly dry. Took a minute to adjust to the novelty, but now it’s a pretty tasty and interesting thing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The spice is nicely done, and the background malt profile is full and nice. However there is a dominating puckering bitterness that is probably extracted from thr barrell aging that I don't find pleasureable.