Blue Moon Spring Blonde Wheat Ale - Coors Brewing Company

Jason

Massachusetts

2.13/5  rDev -24.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

12oz brown bottle with a freshness date.

Thin lacing with a golden filtered clarity. Forced orange and lemon nose on a thin graininess. Crisp, easy to get to as the body is pretty thin. Orange and lemon water with an addition of grain, seriously ... it tastes like a glass of cold carbonated water that a fresh wedge of orange and lemon where put in a few hours ago. The grain is too thin to really call out. Hops, sure something could be there but the beer does not even need to be balanced ... not much to take care of. Dry finish with some citric remains.

Weak sauce ... I expected a bit more out of this one. Not much to it at all and the addition of citrus fails IMO. They would have been better off sticking to their Rising Moon Spring Ale and simply tweaking as I said.

Serving type: bottle

03-05-2011 02:42:40 | More by Jason

iHeartMNBeer

Minnesota

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

05-17-2013 04:31:43 | More by iHeartMNBeer

TempeBeerMan

Arizona

3.2/5  rDev +13.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

Poured from a bottle into a weizen glass.

A - Very clear gold, with a fizzy two-finger white head with next to zero retention. Mere specks for lacing. For a wheat beer, I did expect a thicker head.

S - Clean mild aroma of wheat and a little tangerine. Mild, but doesn't smell bad at all.

T - Taste matches the nose, with the wheat malt clearly leading the show here, lending a multi-grain bread flavor. Fruitiness becomes much more generic than in the nose, tasting reminiscent of orange scented wood polish. Hops don't really balance the wheat as well as they should, but they do add just a hint of spice. Hint of adjunct dextrins, but not overwhelmingly so. Overall flavor profile is clean and mild.

M - Things improve here, as the flavor profile would have you expect lots of water...instead you have a pretty full bodied beer for the style. Prickly carbonation. Finishes very "wet", with a mouth-coating finish.

O - I'm not exactly sure why the other reviews slam this beer THAT badly. It's a little bland and certainly nothing to write home about, but it's not really terrible either. Am I buying it again? No. But I wouldn't turn down a free one if someone offered.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2013 00:28:02 | More by TempeBeerMan

lucasj82

Indiana

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

05-15-2013 02:38:34 | More by lucasj82

Chucker17

South Dakota

3/5  rDev +6.4%

05-14-2013 21:31:31 | More by Chucker17

jkball01

Kentucky

3.25/5  rDev +15.2%

05-13-2013 16:07:52 | More by jkball01

Beerandraiderfan

Nevada

2.59/5  rDev -8.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5

Pours out a lighter and more clarity kind of liquid than would be expected using wheat. Might be less than 50% of the malt bill. Less than impressive head retention, it started out about 1" deep, but where it went, nobody knows. Put it at that mildly dark golden color.

Aroma had a little of the kafir lime thought playing in my head, they used the same color label, mind playin' tricks on me. Either way, citrus is welcome, even if not necessarily 'good'.

Taste, meh. Weird bitterness, lack of wheat flavor or texture. Jeez, could they overdo the carbonation a little harder on this one? Explosive (insert dre drums). MIld caramel mouthfeel if you can get past the club soda tendencies in this one. Still has that tart lime thing going along with a bit of mineral water bitterness.

They really went after a blonde ale, dropped a smidge of wheat, dropped a ton of carbonation, maybe a lime wedge. That's this beer.

I respectfully dissent.

Serving type: bottle

05-06-2013 15:51:39 | More by Beerandraiderfan

bmac093

Florida

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

05-02-2013 18:08:08 | More by bmac093

Mleblanc25

Massachusetts

2/5  rDev -29.1%

04-30-2013 23:29:36 | More by Mleblanc25

GaryFields

Indiana

2.25/5  rDev -20.2%

04-30-2013 01:42:01 | More by GaryFields

Theosphere

California

2.25/5  rDev -20.2%

04-23-2013 20:24:19 | More by Theosphere

J_Dub

Texas

1.5/5  rDev -46.8%

04-23-2013 14:21:39 | More by J_Dub

soxandbeer

Massachusetts

3.25/5  rDev +15.2%

04-12-2013 01:48:41 | More by soxandbeer

Giggy

Michigan

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

04-04-2013 04:44:12 | More by Giggy

Mikecap

Rhode Island

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

03-26-2013 20:43:15 | More by Mikecap

SoCalBeerIdiot

California

2.5/5  rDev -11.3%

03-19-2013 21:23:52 | More by SoCalBeerIdiot

TheBeerAlmanac

Kentucky

2.5/5  rDev -11.3%

03-14-2013 19:34:33 | More by TheBeerAlmanac

Hardcore

Hawaii

3/5  rDev +6.4%

03-09-2013 05:45:57 | More by Hardcore

sixerofelixir

Ohio

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

02-27-2013 19:11:48 | More by sixerofelixir

CountryRock2001

New York

4/5  rDev +41.8%

02-24-2013 22:20:42 | More by CountryRock2001

matjack85

Illinois

3.25/5  rDev +15.2%

02-11-2013 06:43:02 | More by matjack85

rorjets

Connecticut

1.5/5  rDev -46.8%

02-10-2013 03:12:21 | More by rorjets

BeerLover99

New Jersey

1.75/5  rDev -37.9%

02-04-2013 16:52:27 | More by BeerLover99

dan027

Pennsylvania

2/5  rDev -29.1%

01-31-2013 02:03:28 | More by dan027

EatonHops

Massachusetts

2.75/5  rDev -2.5%

01-19-2013 02:21:12 | More by EatonHops