Blue Moon Grand Cru:
Greetings, greetings people of all tastes, backgrounds, and beer drinking experience.  Today let’s look a special release from Blue Moon: Grand Cru.  This now retired witbier style brew comes in at a strong 8.2% ABV and was crafted to commemorate the blue moon that fell on New Year’s Eve in 2009.  The beer pours a cloudy orange that builds a very fizzy bone white head of foam that leaves not lacing and enhances the nose of strong citrus and wheat notes.  The beer’s flavor profile first starts off with a champagne like fizz that tickles the tongue and allows the flavors of the beer to bloom much more aggressively than a typical Blue Moon beer while the notes of citrus are already there and don’t need to be added with a slice of orange or lemon while the aftertaste is almost a dead ringer for a sparkling dry white wine then a beer.  I think this beer reminds me more of a Siason style beer then anything else though it lacks the spice that I have found in the really good Siasons in the past.  So, as I mentioned before, this beer is retired but I have seen it floating around out there (check your grocery store, that’s where I found mine) so if this interests you keep an eye out and save it for one of those times you are trying to impress the lady friend that isn’t to sure about beer but love champagne; this is the type of beer that can sway those over from the grape side of the isle.