I’ve very active on Instagram and so many friends are posting pictures of their summer. I keep seeing everyone with a ubiquitous bottle of Blue Moon.
Why? Is it just beer for people that don’t like beer? I’ve had it once and it was horrid. I’d rather drink a PBR and we don’t want to talk about what happened the last time I drank PBR but it wasn’t pretty.
Just don’t get the appeal, it’s not cheap, so that’s not why people buy it.
It’s not a bad beer, per se. But I’ll never order one. And I’d certainly never put fruit in any beer.
It used to be a small brewery. Now it is owned by MillerCoors, which is owned by MolsonCoors, the world’s 7th largest brewing company.
Blue Moon is the #19 beer in the USA, ahead of Dos Equis and behind Yuengling.
So maybe your friends just like it and are showing their other friends that like it that they’re drinking it too.
I think it’s kind of fun to get a Blue Moon draft with an orange slice, once in a while. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to have it.
Also, the quality of beer and beer flavor varies from region to region.
I first had blue moon beer in Oklahoma City a few years back, and it was good enough for me to buy some when I got home. Blue Moon beer in Boise ID is watered down piss.
If I’m in the mood for that type of beer, I prefer a Hoegaarden – while it’s Belgian, it’s nothing fancy, just a middle-of-the-road Belgian white ale. Blue Moon always tasted a bit “off” to me, but that may be because my introduction to that style was Hoegaarden, so that’s my baseline. (Wow. Just checked the prices. A six pack of Blue Moon is $9.99 here? A sixer of Hooagarden is just a buck more, but it’s 11.2 oz [330 mL] instead of 12 oz. Still, I’d rather pay the buck and have a little less beer, because it’s much tastier to me.)
If I were visiting someone, and that was all that was in the refrigerator, I’d take one. I don’t consider it horrible, but it’s probably at the bottom of the barrel for wheat beers.
If I’m going to drink a Belgian-style beer in the summer, it’s going to be Duvel. Blue Moon is donkey-piss.
It’s a great summer beer especially if you squeeze the orange in it.
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Years ago I worked at a restaurant, and a cook off-handedly mentioned that raw egg whites smelled like wet dog, and now I can’t un-smell that. I thought those two things were the only things in the world that smelled that way, until I tried Blue Moon beer.
Some of us really don’t like the bitter finish of hoppy beers, and often the only nonhoppy one available, especially on tap, is Blue Moon. Microbreweries especially seem to think that the more IBUs the better. Thank heavens for the increasing popularity of ciders for fall and winter, but on a hot summer evening I like a beer—even if all you macho manly men don’t think it qualifies.
Smells and tastes like hand lotion. Hard pass.
A couple of years ago a few friends and I visited another friend for a mountain biking trip. Of course we brought plenty of beer, and our host had plenty of Blue Moon in the fridge. But when all we had left in the fridge was Blue Moon we considered ourselves out of beer and a beer run was in order. So yeah, I won’t even drink one to be gracious.
:rolleyes: I have no patience with beer machismo, but just liking bitters doesn’t slot a person into that category, nor does disliking the beer you like. That’s some high-grade silliness right there. Give me a Corona, a Dos Equis, even a Heineken, and I’ll be fine.
What’s not to understand? It’s popular because people like it. Including me.
I don’t like it but I have had both a Blue Moon & a PBR within the last 2 years and while neither is to my taste, the PBR was really bad, like Miller bad. But people have wildly varying tastes so no surprise in a world where Coors Light is popular that Blue Moon is considered tasty to a lot of people.
Snobbery is the norm in the micro-brew crowd. There’s the irrational belief that excellent beer can only come from obscure, back-alley breweries where it’s brewed in small batches by bearded Millennials or Trappist monks.
Truth is, some micro-brews are nasty. And some beers that have large-scale distribution are surprisingly good. I would include Blue Moon in the latter category. If it were bottled in a 22 ounce bottle with a paper label of an obscure brewery located in the Yukon mountains, the micro-brew crowd would heap endless praise on it.
I mostly agree, except that obviously any taste is a matter of taste. I’d say, “I think some micro-brews are nasty, and I find some large-scale-distribution beers surprisingly good.”
New Belgium just opened a brewery in my town. I can’t stand their stuff. Wicked Weed is based in my town, and their offerings lean heavy into the “double stuff Oreo Porter” category, which, gross. Blue Moon tastes like stale eggs to me.
But plenty of other beers of all categories are just lovely.
I like it well enough. It’s my go-to at BW3s with wings.
Years ago during the late 90s when it wasn’t available here, a friend scored a keg and threw a party around Blue Moon. Then, he abruptly had to reschedule the party for a week later since whoever was bringing the keg from Colorado had a problem getting to Chicago on time.
The phrase you are looking for is “most micro-brews are nasty.” Sturgeon’s Law is a harsh BJCP judge. Still doesn’t change the fact that Blue Moon is donkey-piss.
Like LHoD, I can’t stand New Belgium brewing products. People kept raving about Fat Tire, which to me tastes even worse than donkey-piss.