Blue Moon Rounder Belgian Style Pale

In the 1940’s, Belgian-Style Pale Ales grew in popularity and were ordered by the round due to their balanced taste. Rounder, our expression of this sessionable style, is crafted with hibiscus and orange peel for a hint of spiciness and touch of wheat for a smoother, rounder taste.

Malts: Pale, Imported Caramel, Imported Light Caramel, White Wheat

Hops: Cascade

Our Twist: Orange Peel, Hibiscus

2.8

274 reviews

Denver, United States

Community reviews

2.7 Rated on 5-17-2013 (Bottle-Kroger Marketplace-Fort Wayne, IN) This beer’s appearance is a medium sized ivory head with a short retention, orange transparent body, fizzy, fast rising carbonation, and no lacing. The aroma is wheat, orange peel, floral, and spicy. The flavor is wheat, mildly spicy, malt, and light hops. The mouthfeel is smooth and dry. This beer is medium bodied. This beer does not have a lot of flavor or character. It is a semi-refreshing beer.

2.8 12/11/14. Random 12oz bottle from my dad’s fridge. I was quite surprised I hadn’t had this already. Amber pour with a small khaki head, mild lacing. Plain aroma, faint yeast, floral, orange, chalky, perfume. Slightly better flavor, but much the same. Floral, earthy, a little chalky, doughy. Meh.

2.0 Pours clear amber with a thin fading head. Nose is noticeably vacant for an IPA. Thin sweet and not too much else. Don’t get me wrong, beats a bud... But ...

2.4 Bottle from mix pack, pours a clear amber with a thin egg shelled colored head, aroma is kind of offensive, sour mixed in with a belgian yeast touch and old fruit, flavor isn’t much better, slight sweet frontend with a boring finish, ugh

2.7 Tasted on 1/17/15 from a capped 12oz bottle out of a mixed 12 pack from the grocery store, thanks to Kyle. Pours crystal clear amber with a thick beige head that slowly recedes to thick, spotty lace. The nose is toasted multigrain bread malt with some dried orange peel, and a touch of earthy yeast. The flavor is malty bread sweetness, the same earthy yeast from the nose, and a touch of orange peel and toasted bitterness on the back of the palate. The body is medium with lively, stinging carbonation, and a medium malty and lightly bitter finish.

2.6 Parfumy with some caramel and alcohol in the nose. Copper with a thin white head. No particular taste that dominates. One dimensional and bland.

3.2 12 oz. bottle. Pours clear golden amber with a nice thick white head that maintains and leaves interesting lacing. Aroma of bread, caramel, grass, slight herbal and vegetable notes. Reminds me more of a British Pale Ale than a Belgian, rather dark for a Belgian Pale, but actually goes down quite easily with a good balance of sweet and bitter, malt forward but not too sweet. Has an earthy quality, with a clean finish. Would be suitable as a session ale.

2.6 Pales aren’t really my thing, but this one isn’t bad. Floral tastes without any of the normal bitterness.

2.4 Pours amber, small creamy head. Aroma of yeast, spice, grain. Taste of butterscotch, firewood, grain.

2.7 I appreciate Blue Moon’s attempts to experiment, but they do have to step it up a bit. Average pale ale. The "Belgian" influence is supposed to be in the spices, but I find them lacking, leaving a drinkable pale ale, and not much more.

2.0 bottled - claims to be "Belgian style" but I’m not so sure. Not a very good aroma but does have a good color to it. Not all that good, overall.

2.4 Bottle at a Christmas party. Moderately butter with a faint malt backbone. Actually mostly phenol free. Pretty bitter actually ss it warms. Meh.

2.9 Clear, medium-light brown color. Floral nose from the hibiscus plus some musty yeast. Sweet & roasty/burnt. Medium bitterness. Light tartness in the finish. Slightly metallic.

3.5 Poured from a 12 ounce bottle. There is a strong bready malt note, soft herbal note. The flavor is bready malts, citrusy, light floral tones. Interesting and easy drinking

3.0 Malty aroma with some hop and spiciness. Has a bit of a malt extract type taste, but banana nutty yeasty flavors in there. Noticeable hoppiness. Tastes a bit like a homebrew, but has a good amount of flavor and a drinkable beer. Wouldn't buy it but drinkable if given.

2.9 Bottle, another screw-top. Nose is lightly wheaty and herbal but is dominated by surprisingly strong caramel with lighter dusty and almost fudge notes. Pours a deep copper-amber, still clear, with only faint carbonation and a soapy beige head. Taste full of cracker, lighter caramel, and oily red berry and swirling fruit. Touch of acetone, wheat, hibiscus and rose are there, too, but not orange. Cascade is criminally underused here, just nothing from the hop side. Medium body with a touch of maltiness, booze. Easy-drinker with surprisingly good balance, but fades into the crowd pretty quickly.

2.7 Slightly hazy amber pour with a 2 finger, creamy beige head. Aroma is caramel, sweet tree fruit, citrus and earthy hops. Flavor is sweet caramel and toast up front, then some dusty dried apple, vegetal notes, higher alcohols, wheat, light lemony and floral tartness and light citrus notes. Light to medium body, creamy to slick entry, oily, slightly acidic middle, medium, sharp carbonation and dry, but oily finish. Really not that bad over all, one of the best I have had from Blue Moon. Not that that means a ton.

2.2 Hazy straw pour, with mild yeast, hopcitrus in the taste and nose, not great complexity. nit a repeater.

2.8 Pours a golden amber color with a nice white head. Aroma is orange peel, light malts, light hops. The taste is lightly malty, some sour grain, a little Belgian candy sugar. Super easy to drink, nothing special but also not bad.

3.1 Amber in color with a mild malty aroma. It has a wheaty start but more complexity than a typical beer of that style. The malt balances the hops well for a well rounded flavor.

3.0 Translucent brown. Aroma of orange, malt, soap and pine hop. Taste is boring. Subtle hop with a sweet orange malt finish. Kinda boring. Actually no, really boring. But it isn?t offensive.

2.9 Look: pours a light copper. White head. Very clear. Smell: slight sour stone. Sweet apple cider. Caramel apple. Taste: bread. Lite sourness. Malt heavy. Slight pine. Earthy flavor. Feel: kind of dry. Medium low carbonation. Overall: ok beer. I prefer more citrus but not bad for a Belgian style pale. First drank: home 11/6/24

2.6 12 oz. bottle from Cash Wise in Watford City. Appearance: finger white head, golden copper color, clear, no lacing. Aroma: floral hops, light caramel, light spice, notes of bandages. Palate: light-medium body, average carbonation, cloying texture, bitter finish, sticky. Taste: sweet caramel and sugary sweet, into light floral bitterness. Overall, too sweet and the bitterness does the opposite of balancing due to a poor transition. Very sweet with a full stop, then into bitter. Like the aroma, but that is it.

1.4 Hazy brown and amber coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of yeast, pungent malt and a hint of light spices, not much else. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong pungent deep bitterness with not much of a yeast component nor anything remotely spicey - this is just funky malts and unpleasant sweetness with no hops. Aftertaste is simple and quite bitter - nothing pleasant here. Overall, not a belgian ale nor an APA or an EPA, this is just plain bad with a style most in common with an amber ale, pure and simple. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle pulled from a autumn sampler on 25-October-2014.

2.5 Pours a mostly clear dark amber color. Tastes fairly clean and fresh, and doesn’t have a cloying yeasty note, which was nice. OK.

2.9 Bottle, from mixed-pack. Poured a hazy, bubbly copper color with a foamy white head. Aroma was light pale malts, sweetness, lots of carbonation. Flavor was sweet malt notes, that’s about it. Nothing offensive. A little boring. Would probably only drink again if someone bought one of these box sets.

2.8 Not much going on hear. Like a cheerleader that cheers from inside a room. It's all just muted. There is no pepiness.. No life. No hops. No aroma. So I found it sadly to be a let down. A flavor flop.

3.3 Bottle thanks to Gentiles owner. Pretty well balanced. Good carb and bod. Yeasty aroma with grain. Similar taste. Like blue moon without spices

2.6 High on drinkability but extremely low on aromas and flavors. Come to think of it, that’s the philosophy of the dinosaur brewers.

2.9 Pours a copper / amber color with a slightly off white head. Aroma is faint when cold but as it warms up the smell is of wet grains and light floral undertones. The taste was lightly sweet malts. Mouth feel is thin. Not a bad beer but nothing outstanding.