Moose Drool…yes, drool.
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.
Hops-scotch 4:19 pm on February 8, 2008 Permalink
I have to agree with Frosty on this. Moose Drool is very good. Especially when enjoyed on tap at a pizza place in Montana. It doesn’t get much better than that.
Hops-scotch 8:33 pm on March 11, 2008 Permalink
I had Moose Drool twice this weekend. With mixed results. The first bottle was just as good as I remember, brown tangy and delicious. Unfortunately, the second bottle was not. It had that bitter, leave-a-bad-taste-in-my-mouth taste that a lot of beers get when they’ve been sitting on shelves for a long time getting warm, then cold again. Just goes to show that even a good beer can be turned bad if not stored properly.