Moa 5 Hop - Winter Ale - Moa Brewing Company

lhaqq

California

3.9/5  rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A: Copper body with a thick frothy white head.

S: Not too much, mainly grains, caramel and some piney hop smell.

T: Good dose of hops, mainly floral and bitter. Ends dry.

M: A bit on the watery side, but still one that I'd have again. Best local beer I had while in Australia and New Zealand.

Serving type: on-tap

01-24-2012 07:15:09 | More by lhaqq

ADZA

Australia

3.53/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Im always a little hesitant when it comes to anything from these guys as had bad experiences in the past anyways it pours a hazed amber hue which leaves a long lasting three finger head and clingy lacing everywhere,the smell is toffee malts,caramel,herbal hops,gooseberries and blackberries,the mouthfeel is medium bodied and a tad syrupy but nicely carbonated with tastes of herbal earthy hops,blackberries,caramel malts,sticky toffee and finished with a bittersweet mix of hops and fruit salad and overall its nice and one of the better samples from these guys cheers.

Serving type: bottle

09-02-2012 13:48:38 | More by ADZA

CrazyDavros

Australia

3.43/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Pours dark amber with a small, off-white head.
Very malty aroma, with rich bready and caramel notes along with spicy and floral hops.
Flavours don't quite show the same level of complexity, but include some bready malt, pine and spicy hops.
Body seems a bit watery.

Serving type: on-tap

07-23-2012 08:15:29 | More by CrazyDavros

heygeebee

Australia

4.03/5  rDev +13.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

From Warners. No date.

Cork 'n' cage, Fabulous bottle.

Pours a deep bright copper. Lovely large bubbly head that hangs around for a good while.

Aromas of pine, grapefruit. Some lemon.

Taste is well balanced grapefruit, hops and good malt backbone.

Mouthfeel medium bodied, nicely carbonated.

Good beer in a crowded place. Don;t know why the instructions say serve just belwo room temp, tho, methinks that would be too warm

Serving type: bottle

06-03-2012 07:38:06 | More by heygeebee

Kornoms

Texas

3.5/5  rDev -1.1%

04-17-2012 00:57:45 | More by Kornoms

tbeckett

Ontario (Canada)

3.7/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Bottle from Local Provisions in Melbourne. From notes.

A - Poured dark gold with a full finger of fluffy white head. Some haze. A good finger of head retention and great lace.

S - Lot's of citrus and stone fruit. Peach and cadied pineapple.

T - Lot's of citrus, grapefruit, grassy, toffee malts, resins, some stone fruit and peach with booze in the finish. Lovely complexity.

M - Medium to full body with some sweetness in the finish. Tingly carbonation.

O/D - A lovely winter ale. Sweet then greatly complex from the hop blends. A good one.

Serving type: bottle

02-26-2012 05:26:46 | More by tbeckett

drpimento

Wisconsin

4.08/5  rDev +15.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Nice beer. Served with a lovely, foamy, frothy, thick, creamy, cream colored head that slowly settles and some lace. Color is a clear orange honey amber. Aroma is malt, hop, musk, rye. Flavor is similar to nose, fairly dry, grain, slight tang. Body & carbonation are excellent. Finish is like flavor, on the short side, and very drinkable. I'd have more.

Serving type: cask

02-04-2012 04:31:05 | More by drpimento

crusian

Texas

3.4/5  rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

On tap at brew on quay in Auckland. Nitro, weird.
Cloudy as crap when it comes ot and then it clears up as the head forms into 2 fingers. Lacing is ridiculous due to nitrogen as well.
Clears onto a nice amber color...
Moas is creamy from the nite again, and surprisingly British bitter hops. A nice pale malt backbone coming through.
mouthfeel is actually a lot like real or cask... again from the nitro, all the carbonation is gone... and it is medium bodied...
taste is a mix of British and "american hops" nice mixture of citrus, pine and the the British super bitter. malty finish, but nothing overly fantastic. but not too bad for my first beer in nz.

Serving type: nitro-tap

10-11-2011 05:52:25 | More by crusian

femALEist

California

3.83/5  rDev +8.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Had this out of the bottle- green bottle, I might add- Why do breweries still use green bottles? But luckily this one wasn't skunked. This poured a teak brown with a good, thick white head. It smelled of light sweet malts, hops, and some light tropical fruits. It tasted belgiany with some bitterness, candied sugar, malt, light grapefruit and light spice.

Serving type: bottle

03-23-2010 04:54:31 | More by femALEist

mulder1010

Australia

2.88/5  rDev -18.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

a 375ML poured into my Tooheys new glass.
A- poured a orange hue with a lot of head. Half the glass was a big white billowy head. Head lasted a good 4 minutes and left a lot of lacing. A fair amount of carbonation with this.
S- Hops. Lots of hops. A little apple and not all that floral as some pale ales are. Possibly some honey and apple as well.
T and M--Not as hopps as I had thought it might be. Still think there is honey in this as it does have a dry finish and not as cottonmouth as some IPA's are. Still hoppy but not that hoppy. Not that carbonated in the mouth and just kind of there. Nothing real exciting.
D-It's Ok. Nothing special. Might be better than the Squire version of this. Can not say of the Cascade fresh hop version. Could think of a better way to have a winter ale. This would be a good late fall beer. One is enough and that is it. Maybe needs to be a bit bigger in the bitterness.

Serving type: bottle

07-24-2009 15:42:46 | More by mulder1010

lamarr04

Pennsylvania

3.63/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

375 ml bottle poured into a snifter

A: pouts a hazy dark orange with a one inch off white head. leaves substantial lacing down the glass.

S: Smell is lots of hops. Mostly hay and fresh apple aroma with a subtle bitter citrus as well (not a big juicy grapefruit aroma).

T: Bitterness overwhelms the palate, experienced through the tongue but most prominently at the back where there is a strong oily hop bitterness. There is a subtle sweetness if you search for it, and some toastier malt notes through the sip as well.

M: Medium to full body with low carbonation and an oily finish. fuller mouthfeel than the average pale ale.

D: The lack of balance and full mouthfeel makes it a bit less than sessionable but I am a hophead so I enjoy the beer.

Serving type: bottle

06-17-2009 06:21:20 | More by lamarr04

laituegonflable

Australia

2.78/5  rDev -21.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Crowd of bubbles on the bottom of the glass when poured, ochre orangey hue with light beige head. Thin, not-very-sticky lacing. Didn't get much head, but others did. The head is a bit fibrous. Can't say I'm mammothly impressed.

A lot of hops on the nose. Hint of bitter citrus, like lemon zest or something, but it's mainly quite a simple hop aroma. Again, not religiously overawed.

A lot of hops on the palate as well (five, maybe), but localised almost entirely within the middle of the palate. Front has a slight sweet and zesty zing and the palate tails off quite comprehensively to leave a lingering trace of what might have been a bitter finish. The palate is contructed a bit amateurishly, I would say, or by mad scientists saying "let's brew an ordinary beer an bombard it with hops for no reason!!!" There is a fair amount of flavour but the body is too thin to hold it up. Mouthfeel is a bit sinky and heavy in spite of this. It seems to want me to bow down and worship this, but I'm just not zealous enough. If I say zebra here, that will be four different z-words in this review. Appropriate, because if this beer were a letter, it would probably be a z.

Yes, that didn't make sense.

Serving type: bottle

12-26-2008 05:25:11 | More by laituegonflable

jarmby1711

Australia

4.22/5  rDev +19.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Tan coloured with a reeddish tinge.
Sudsy soft looking greyish head.
It is certainly hoppy both on the nose and the palate without much fruitiness other than wafts of canteloupe at the back.
This is more than an ale for winter , as it is eminently drinkable.
It wants for a malt body just to round off the palate .The bitterness is at a level that makes quantity consumption rather easy

Serving type: bottle

11-06-2008 23:13:28 | More by jarmby1711

lacqueredmouse

Australia

3.25/5  rDev -8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Amber-orange body with a big rocky head of white porous foam. Slightly cloudy, minimal carbonation. Lacing is good. Looks very fine.

Nice fruity tropical hop characters on the nose. Not very dominant though, and there's a creeping hint of roasted malt sweetness underneath. Nice, though.

Rather thin in the mouth but with a reasonable hoppy bitterness throughout. Not much else to it, not even much malt in the body to back it up, so it feels a bit unbalanced.

It's pretty clean and drinkable, no noticeable flaws really - just ends up being a bit one-dimensional.

Serving type: bottle

10-11-2008 00:36:57 | More by lacqueredmouse

brendan13

Australia

3.5/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A - Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass with a solid 1 inch off white head that slowly falls away. Beer is a cloudy dark copper colour.
S - Herbal, piney & floral hop notes dominate the smell.
T - The hops are also quite assertive in the taste but there is also a sweet caramel & bready maltiness to balance it out.
M - Medium bodied with a medium to high carbonation & a fairly dry finish.
D - On the hoppier side of things but that's OK by me. Not something I'd drink too often but I'd probably buy it again and would suggest trying it.

Serving type: bottle

09-29-2008 08:07:57 | More by brendan13

VitBAficionado

New Zealand (Aotearoa)

2.93/5  rDev -17.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3

Slightly hazed caramel color with a chunky dark-khaki head. Very fizzy looking. Layered aroma of pine and herbal hops. Light taste of fruit at first but then hops, hops and more hops with an ultra dry yeast finish. Overly carbonated, especially for type. The world for this brew is unbalanced. Not a bad beer just a bit too wild.

Serving type: bottle

01-09-2008 00:18:10 | More by VitBAficionado