Moose Drool Brown Ale

By: Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, Montana. Nice dark brown body with a good looking light tan head. When held to the light this color is a dark cola like color. The aroma is light toasted malt. The taste is slight roasted malts with a hint of coffee and a nice balancing act with the hoppy notes. The overall feel to me is on the milder side of medium, a 4 or 4.5 on my strength scale. The mouth feel is smooth. The moderate carbonation with a watery edge washes away any notes that may want to linger.

On their web site, bigskybrew, they say they want to brew ‘balanced’ beers. I think ‘balanced’ is a key word for reaching ‘the average beer drinker.’ And, I would say they did just that with this beer. If you have never had a Brown Ale before this would be a good place to start. There are no overpowering notes to offend ones palate. Is it the best? No. Is it good? Sure. I would sit by the campfire and drink a few of these. It does not leave any lingering aftertaste so, it is fairly pleasant tasting.

This Brown Ale would be great to pair up with some sirloin burgers, steaks, and other good barbequing type foods.

I personally like to have my brown ale style beers in the fall and winter months, but this ale is easy enough to enjoy year round.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy this beer, but for something different and it is right in front of you, pick up a six pack.

Here are the tasting notes from bigskybrew.com

It's chocolate brown in color with a creamy texture. A malty beer with just enough hop presence to keep it from being too sweet. The aroma mostly comes from the malt with a hint of spice added by the hops. Moose Drool is brewed with pale, caramel, chocolate, and whole black malts; and Kent Goldings, Liberty, and WILLAMETTE HOPS. It has an original gravity of 13 degrees Plato, and is 4.2% alcohol by weight, 5.3% by volume.