Moosehead Breweries

Commercial Brewery in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦

Established in 1867

Contact
89 Main Street West, Saint John, NB E2M 3H2, Canada
Subsidiaries
Moosehead Breweries owns 2 breweries:
Description
Defying the odds isn’t just what we do, it’s a part of our DNA. We were founded by a woman in 1867. Lived through two wars. Survived a fire. Overcame the Halifax Explosion. Competed as an independent company against breweries 100 times our size. We haven’t just survived - we’ve thrived. And while others back down, we outlast. Moosehead Breweries Limited is the last major brewery in Canada still owned by Canadians. The brewery is located in Saint John, New Brunswick and operates with values that have been safely guarded by the same family for 148 years. Despite obstacles – devastating fires, Prohibition, the Great Depression, two world wars, obstructive trade barriers, and bruising competition from breweries 100 times its size – Moosehead is one of the most durable and long lasting companies in Canada. Ultimately it has been the Oland family’s passion for beer that has enabled them to be successful over the long term. With their product on beer shelves from the Maritimes to B.C., and its flagship Moosehead Lager shipped to approximately 350 distributors in the U.S.; Moosehead has become an iconic mainstay in North America’s beer industry

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3.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
341ml bottle. Clear, yellow-ish, golden colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally musty, strawy, grainy, pale malty aroma, whiffs of horse dung. Taste is strawy, grainy, pale malty, plain bitter hoppy with a metallic touch, subtle residual sweetness. Watery texture, minimally dry, cardboard-like palate, fine, soft carbonation. Unspectacular and characterless as expected.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2020 at 15:32

3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle. Thx? Vastactiv. Poured straw color. Not much flavor really. Sweetish with cardboard, faint malts. Watery. Avoid.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2020 at 15:43

3/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Can at Arde's residence, Helsinki. Color is clear golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Paper, some maize, some grain and some malts.
Tried from Can on 04 Sep 2020 at 15:43

3.2/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3
355ml bottle. Cardboardy, watery and starchy with some earthiness and hints of bready malts. Quite bad.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2020 at 15:42

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
473ml can from Rule Taproom in Moscow. Pours clear amber with a small white head. Aroma is caramel, grain. Taste is caramel, malt, earthy hop. Light bitterness in the finish. Ok macro amber ale.
Tried from Can on 28 Aug 2020 at 14:13

5/10
Tried from Bottle on 23 Aug 2020 at 01:23

3/10
A few sips stolen from the Mrs. while sitting at the dock - then quickly returned. It's weirdly overly sweet, then the beer comes in with a malty bitterness. Also not nearly as watermelon-ee as I would have expected. (Apple juice is listed before watermelon on the ingredients.) Just a lack of balance here, and feels like the marketing guys decided they wanted to be a cooler, but since it's a Moosehead line-extension they just had to add beer. This is a nope.
Tried on 09 Aug 2020 at 21:46

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 4
A golden beer, a head is medium and white. Aroma maltyness, some grass, hint of perry, pure. Taste has light maltyness, hint of grass, short. Light+ bodied. Easy, the glass was quickly empty.
Tried on 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
473ml can. Pours a hazy dark brown with red hue and a medium, creamy, long lasting, tan head that laces. Sweet aroma of roasted grainy malt, toffee, molasses, dark fruit and coffee. Sweet flavour of roasted malt, caramel, fig, dark chocolate, molasses and earth in a dry, mild bitter, coffee finish. Medium body with a smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Being a macro, I wasn't expecting much, but this was actually flavourful and well made.
Tried from Can on 23 Apr 2020 at 03:18

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
473ml can. Pours a hazy gold-yellow with yeast particles in suspension and a medium, creamy, short lived, white head that leaves spotty lacing. Mild, sweet fruity aroma of grainy pale malt, grapefruit, orange, mango and maybe a hint of strawberry. Sweet fruity flavour of grainy pale malt, grapefruit, orange peel and lactose in a dry, tart, faint rhubarb finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. I wasn't expecting much, so I wasn't disappointed. For a macro, this wasn't bad. More of a fruited pale ale and the strawberry and rhubarb is almost indiscernible.
Tried from Can on 22 Apr 2020 at 04:27