Boutique bottle shop 'The Local' in Balaclava had a closing down sale on Saturday, and while most of the carcass had been picked clean I did manage to snaffle a few cheap beers I hadn't tried before. I also snared some Jalapeno peanuts which were on some serious next level shit. It is distressing to know that it will be the first and only time I will ever get to sample such a delicacy. One minute of silence please, for the nuts.
I remember liking the Moa range when I went through a few of them last year, notably the Lager, Pale Ale and Pilsner. I have now also perused their Witbier, otherwise known as 'Blanc'. Moa have managed to develop a signature feel to their range, which is something admirable given how flooded the world is with different beers nowadays. Both a blessing and a curse, the winds of trade have brought us some delectable ales, but also a cavalcade of fizzy yellow piss in the same gust. Moa brew spicy, clean, thirst quenching beers that don't pretend to try and wow the hop headed snobs, just demolish their parched mouths.
The beer pours an orangey straw yellow, without much head, and looks pretty much like every other witbier you've ever drunk. Which is to be expected. The feel of the Blanc is light and crisp, but weighted just enough to not feel watery. Pepper and zesty citrus dominate the forefront, the finish resembling some sort of a malty lemon. It's all very familiar, and by no means a stand out witbier, but there is something so damn refreshing about Moa's beers... it's like stumbling upon a glistening oasis after a six hour trek through the Kalahari, where you had nothing to eat in your backpack but a stick of beef jerky wrapped in sandpaper.
Nothing groundbreaking or out of the ordinary. Very safe in terms of ingredients, flavours and style, but nevertheless, a very tasty and refreshing take on the wheat beer genre. Only a wanker would really try and sit there and poke gaping holes in a beer like this. It isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, because it doesn't have to.
7/10
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