Peter Piper's Pickled Pepper Purple Peated Pale Ale - Moon Dog Craft Brewery

CrazyDavros

Australia

3.5/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.5

Pours ridiculously frothy, almost all head at first. Had to wait 15 minutes just to pour it.
Nose shows peat, funk, spicy notes and faint fruit.
Flavours include peat, sweet malt, light fruit, spicy phenolic notes and some solvent-like booze.
Loads too much carbonation.

Serving type: bottle

12-01-2012 01:03:29 | More by CrazyDavros

heygeebee

Australia

3.18/5  rDev -9.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

From Jim's. No BB.

Pours a dark amber. Masses of head fill my Duvel tulip with only half the beer out the bottle. Coarse bubbles in head.

Aromas are of smoke and funk.

Taste is also smoke and bonfire driven. Sweet initial plate. Difficult to discern any other elements, a real hodge-podge. A little booze starts to come out as it warms. As the bottle goes down, so does the speed of drinking. Something about the palate just does not sit right, and a somewhat harsh non-hop bitterness builds overpowering the sweet intial palate.

Mouthfeel is well carbonated and early in the bottle no hint of 9%. Medium weight.

Odd idea and a bit one dimensional, needs a little less smoke and maybe the whole idea might gel a bit more. Sum is less than the contrasting parts. I'm with Danieelol tho - why on earth 9%????

Serving type: bottle

10-19-2012 10:56:50 | More by heygeebee

danieelol

Australia

3.28/5  rDev -7.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Pours an amber (not really purple unfortunately) with excessive head and lacing.

Smell is huge banana. Very wit-ty (hehe), or is that in fact the rauch malt they use? I get a similar profile from Black Lung. Some perfumed apple.

Taste is a (not out of balance) sweetness and an interesting citrus presence. Also, BBQ Shapes. More band-aid-y wit/rauch flavours. I can't help but feel that the swetness hides the booze and sometimes it gets a little bit much.

Mouthfeel is nice and thick. I think I occasionally feel a floatie or two but I might be imagining it. Finishes with a nice umami. Rather bitter.

An interesting experiment. I've no idea why it needed to be 9% however. Does seem to be a case more of "doing it because they can" rather than an inspired concept.

Serving type: bottle

10-04-2012 01:28:35 | More by danieelol

dgilks

Australia

3.65/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Everything Moondog does is weird and this is no exception. Starting off with a purple tinged muddy amber colour with a rocky, off white head. Great head retention and some lacing.

The aroma is fruity with the berries being present then some citrus followed by a light and mild peat character that just works. A little sweet, a little tart, a little bitter, it's just a combo that seems to work.

The palate seems a little more muddled. The berries, malt and peat all competing for attention leaving the hops sitting in the corner. The mess on the palate just doesn't come together and while it is actually quite pleasant it doesn't hit the mark.

Medium-light body and moderate to moderately-high carbonation are good for the beer.

On the whole, I like what they have tried to achieve here and it is a good beer. Strange but good and in a way that is all it should be.

Serving type: bottle

10-01-2012 06:11:32 | More by dgilks

ADZA

Australia

4.08/5  rDev +15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Wow what a mouthful and this a collaboration between Moondog and Yeastie Boys which is heavily peated with Simcoe and Big Banger hops and British Yeast,it pours a dirty orange amber hue with a creamy off white two finger head that stays and leaves similar lacing everywhere,the smell is toffee,peat,chilli and dark plums,the mouthfeel is full and creamy and the tastes are abit out there with hints of ashtray,boozy alcohol,brandied kumquats,burnt toffee,plums and finished with hint of peppery heat and overall its typical Moondog weird either you like or you dont cheers.

Serving type: bottle

09-07-2012 07:42:20 | More by ADZA