About
At Moody Tongue, our goal is to create thoughtful, exciting beers that blend familiar flavors with quality ingredients through our philosophy of culinary brewing: using a chef’s mindset to highlight flavors and aromatics in balanced beers.
Culinary brewing rests on three principles:
1. Sourcing the highest quality ingredients
2. Understanding how best to handle those ingredients to showcase flavors and aromatics
3. Knowing when during the brewing process to incorporate these ingredients.
Brewmaster Jared Rouben draws on his culinary training to forge this connection between the kitchen and our brewery, building recipes for our beers in the same manner a chef would for a dish. Our beers are created with simplicity and balance in mind and can be enjoyed both on their own or paired with food.
Beer is our food. We look forward to feeding your moody tongue.
Culinary brewing rests on three principles:
1. Sourcing the highest quality ingredients
2. Understanding how best to handle those ingredients to showcase flavors and aromatics
3. Knowing when during the brewing process to incorporate these ingredients.
Brewmaster Jared Rouben draws on his culinary training to forge this connection between the kitchen and our brewery, building recipes for our beers in the same manner a chef would for a dish. Our beers are created with simplicity and balance in mind and can be enjoyed both on their own or paired with food.
Beer is our food. We look forward to feeding your moody tongue.
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours copper with an off-white head. Nose is sweet malty, showing notes of bread, toffee, dried fruits, vanilla, and light booze. Taste is scotch upfront, booze and lightly spicy, vanilla like wood, then rather surprisingly it packs a fruity and floral punch with hints of honey and toffee. Closes with a fruity, jammy woody finish, has a medium to full body (I think the fruity character made it feel lighter than it actually was) and soft carbo. Interesting, layered and complex stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:59
6/10
RB score 3.02
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2025
at 19:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Optisch Aprikose, fluffiger Sahneschaum. In der Nase fruchtig, Litschi. Im Trunk würzig, fruchtig, cremig, angenehm spritzig, spät bitter, fast schon süffig, passt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2025
at 15:55
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Optisch dunkles orange, grobporiger Schaum. In der Nase hefig, Koriander. Im Trunk angenehm würzig, Weißbier, cremig, dezent bittersüß, spät Orange, lecker.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2025
at 14:48
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating from 2016 - 355ml bottle brought back from NYC. Pours amber with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, tangerine & hops. Medium body. Dry mildly bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2025
at 17:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Beer Republic. Aroma is modestly hoppy with lychee, grapefruit, malt, some pine and caramel, some fairly juicy fruits. Flavour is moderate bitter, hint of tartness and a little sweetness. Medium body. In between a Fruit Beer and an IPA, the lychee is strong in this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Republic. Aroma is vanilla, malt, caramel, toffee, oak, bourbon, some cocoa, butterscotch. Flavour is sweet and boozy, some bitterness. Body is medium. Sweet malt, bourbon, alcohol, lots of toffee. Heavy, sippable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Republic. Aroma is piney hop with tangerine, nectarine, malt, pine, some grapefruit. Flavour is nicely bitter with a mild sweetness. Medium body. Bitter and somewhat piney, flavoured with nectarine without falling into the trap of it becoming too much or artificial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2025
at 06:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle 355ml (AIH196)
Hazy orange colour, small white head. Sugary sweetness, honeyish Belgian yeasty aroma. Light-bodied. Crisp, Belgian yeasty with touch of honey. Simple and a bit homebrewish.
Hazy orange colour, small white head. Sugary sweetness, honeyish Belgian yeasty aroma. Light-bodied. Crisp, Belgian yeasty with touch of honey. Simple and a bit homebrewish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2025
at 23:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottle (From Beer Republic). Slightly hazy amber colour,, medimsized beige creamy head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is spicy yeast, mild gluelike sweetness with sweet malts and mild fruity tones. Flavour is spicy yeast, some fruity and floral tones with mild sweet malts. Rather Belgian indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
from Beer Republic
on 05 Jan 2025
at 23:03