Blue Moon Agave Blonde Ale:
Hello cats and kittens and welcome to a rare beer review.  No, no, the review itself isn’t rare (I do those every day- most of the time), it’s a review of a rare beer, something that supposedly, is coveted by Blue Moon fans around the world or at least the distribution area.  So after that build-up let‘s keep that tease going and talk agave, that stuff that tequila is made from as well as the new popular sweetener on the market, agave nectar and it’s agave that is in Blue Moon’s Agave Blonde Ale.  The beer is available only in Brewmaster Summer 12-packs and is reportedly a highly sought after beer.  The beer pours well with a nice decent looking head that did fizz out very quickly but the beer stays very carbonated with the normal blonde ascending spires of bubbles.  The nose is light with just subtle hints of hops, honey and grains while the initial taste is very similar to the mellow sweetness of agave nectar then it rolls into a breaded malt flavor that seems to grow in the mouth and making the beer seem heavier than one would expect.  Back-end and after taste is malt heavy and there is a recovering sweetness in the brew from the agave but not as strong as the initial sweetness.  A good beer, not something I’d see as a summer brew, maybe a spring but the heaviness of this doesn’t seem like a good hot weather beer.  So, if you can still run across a summer pack, this is a nice surprise and seeing what is coming up in the fall pack, we’ll be revisiting Blue Moon again.