There is a certain amount of danger in letting your daughter choose a beer for you, but I couldn’t help it. Staring at the wall of beer in my local Market of Choice, I was fraught with indecision. “Honey”, I said, “what beer should daddy buy?”. “The Moose!” she replied. And such it was that I had a six pack of the unfortunately named “Moose Drool”. It is brewed by our friends at Big Sky in Montana, home of the low budget beer wrapper. And much like its other sampling we’ve had (Summer Honey), its really quite good!

Despite what the name and wrapper may imply, this nutty brown beer is real good. I’m a big fan of the nutty brown ales, and this one is no different. Slightly toasty, slightly nutty and without any drool-like aftertaste. It also has what I refer to as the “Brown Tang”, a sort of flavor that comes with browns. I like it, as it gives it a sort of signature brown ale flavor, but the wife finds it nasty, so to each their own.

So in short, although I can’t vouch for actual moose drool tasting this good, if you like Brown Ales, you’ll like Big Sky’s Moose Drool.

Big Sky Brewing, the makers of “Moose Drool”, have delivered a positively yummy little summer beer here. It seems that I have an unhealthy affinity for beers with “Honey” in the title, and this is no exception. It was light and airy like a yummy wheat mixed with a pale.

All you have to do is get past the horrible wrapper. It took me a few beers to realize that that was in fact not a bear…but a wolf. At least I know that if my current career doesn’t work out, I could have a future in wrapper design.