Something to Drool Over: Big Sky Brewing Company’s Moose Drool Brown Ale

The Big Sky Brewing Company is located in Missoula, Montana, where I had the privilege of first trying this beer. Over the past year, their beers have been showing up in local grocery stores throughout the Northwest. Recently, I found their beer at a specialty beer store in the Midwest. The growing popularity makes sense as soon as you try the Moose Drool Brown Ale.

The Brown Ale has the solid taste of solid oatmeal stout, but maintains a light side that makes it easy to enjoy a few without getting too full. To keep with the theme of previous posts, the brown ale/light side of it makes it an enjoyable summertime beer for those looking for something to drink in the hot-summer sun, but prefer to drink something with a great taste as well.

The Brown Ales is interesting. It has the chocolate, oatmeal taste of a microbrew stout, but is smooth and easy like most brown ales. It is a well-balanced beer in that it has a great taste to it without being overbearing, which is common among many beers that strive for the chocolate, oatmeal taste.

Here is what the Big Sky Brewery has to say about the Moose Drool Brown Ale:
“That first taste, the best part of a beer after a long day. We want to make that better than ever. So we made Moose Drool. The name sounds a little iffy, but it's really the best Brown Ale you'll ever taste. That's why Moose Drool is far and away the best-selling beer brewed in Montana.

It's chocolate brown in color with a creamy texture. A malty beer with just enough hop presence to keep it from being too sweet. The aroma mostly comes from the malt with a hint of spice added by the hops. Moose Drool is brewed with pale, caramel, chocolate, and whole black malts; and Kent Goldings, Liberty, and WILLAMETTE HOPS. It has an original gravity of 13 degrees Plato, and is 4.2% alcohol by weight, 5.3% by volume.”