I personally love Blue Moon, but I graduated ages ago from an orange slice to actually putting a jigger of orange juice in the beer. If the restaurant or bar has it, I generally ask for a chaser of OJ in a small glass when I order the beer.
Yes, you can imagine the looks the servers and bartenders sometimes give me, and yes, it sounds bizzare at first thought. My beer-snob drinking friends looked askance at me at first also, but - by golly - most of them now do also drop in some OJ. No rind and no pulp to contend with and it goes perfectly with the beer. Try it!
Hoegaarden’s got a definite kiss of orange to it, although for me it’s more on the nose than the palate. I mean, it has actual orange peel in it, whereas beers like Oberon and 312 get their citrus overtones from the yeast being used, so far as I know. (Though I personally don’t find 312 to be orangey.)
No, you’re right. Hoegaarden has been owned by InBev since 1987, and is still (after flirting a bit with a location change) made in Hoegaarden, Belgium.
Pierre Celis, the founder of the original Hoegaarden brewery, after the sale of his company to InBev, founded another brewery this time in Austin, Texas and continued to produce beer using the same Hoegaarden recipe. This brewery was eventually bought by Miller and ultimately closed. The brand name (Celis) was later acquired by the Michigan Brewing Company who began to produce and distribute 4 types of beer with that label, one of which is “Celis White,” which is presumably brewed using that same recipe, as Pierre Celis was hired by the company.
You’re probably right about 312, I just remember it being too fruity for me. I do like wheat beers, I just tend not to like ‘fruity’ wheat beers*, so I probably tried it once and that was it. Oddly, Purple Haze by Abita which is supposed to be a Blackberry infused Wheat Beer (I think it’s Blackberry), I recall being a really really good wheat beer but I remember it not being all that fruity at all.
Horny Goat makes a very orangey Wheat Beer, but I’m fairly certain you can only get it in Wisconsin…and most of their beer isn’t very good anyways.
*That’s not entirely true. I don’t mind a _____ Wheat Beer, where ____is a specific (usually brewed with/infused) fruit. I’m just not big on beers where the aroma/taste of fruit is coming from the hops/wheat/yeast etc.
They’re quite different flavors, but they are related in they’re from the same plant. It seems that some people who have an aversion to cilantro also have an aversion to coriander seed; others like cilantro and hate coriander seed; and still others hate cilantro, but love coriander seed. I was under the impression that the two flavor aversions weren’t related at all, but a little bit of Googling suggests that they are for some people.
I personally don’t care for Oberon, but it’s the only beer I put on twitter and facebook for my store when we get it in. “You know it’s spring when Oberon is in” or something along those lines. People go apeshit for it. It doesn’t hurt that it’s right around the beginning of tailgating season as well.
“Don’t like it” or “think it taste’s like soap”? There’s a class of people that think cilantro tastes like soap, I have no idea if whatever makes cilantro taste like soap to those people would also be in the coriander, but Sitnam mentioned that he thinks Blue Moon tastes like lotion. That’s why I was asking.
It’s more of a chemical/enzyme thing then a “I don’t like it” thing.
Are the people you refer to as having an “aversion” to cilantro the same as the people who say it specifically tastes like soap?
As I was saying above, I’m wondering if that’s why sitnam mentioned that Blue Moon tastes like Lotion.
Yes, that’s what I mean. All the “soap tasters” I personally know seem to be fine with coriander seed, and don’t taste soapiness in that, but Google suggests that there are some who do. The “hand lotion” description does sound like the description of a typical cilantro soap taster, though.
