Luck
Rhinegeist Brewery

 

 

 

Pretty decent! Not as heavy tasting as I'd like, but certainly not bad!

 

I tried this at the Daily Growler in Powell, OH. Poured an opaque dark with thin head that did not leave much lace. The scent had hints of earth and roast. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with roast and peat presence. The mouthefeel was lighter in body with smooth carbonation. Overall it was a good beer.

 

 

Built for the St. Partrick's Day festivities, the flavor of Irish stout lifts its malty weight and its generous alcohol strength and trends a little lighter and somber. But its not ready to shed its roasty edges just yet. So the Irish dry stout of Rhinegeist hits just the right chord for the spring holiday.

Luck ours a dark roast coffee appearance; black through the center yet with tawny brown shoulders. As a creamy off-white head mounts, the robust scent swirls about the nose with coffee, cream, light smoke, light vanilla and striations of caramel and toffee. Flavors pick up on those mild sweetnesses of toffee and caramel along with a roasted nuttiness, burnt toast and an emphasis on those coffee characteristics.

As the sweetness drifts, the dryness of the stout becomes its greatest sounding board. Caramel and toffee dissolve and the dry taste of french press coffee begins to couple with the char of seemingly burnt toast, roasted pecan and a pep of bitter cocoa. Moderately bitter late, much of the broad and woodsy bitterness that's experiences is largely chocked up to a roast-derived bitterness by mistake. These subtle hops tuck nicely inside the roast and sell the taste of coffee well.

Medium bodied, but certainly light for stout. The dry roast, light alcohol and woodsy hops all facilitate a shockingly dry, arid and even powdery texture that's a slight variation from ash. A return of caramel and nutty remnants return for a light cola-like taste as the brief aftertaste of coffee and campfire drifts briefly in aftertaste.

 

 

Enjoyed from the growler via Jungle Jim's. This stout pours a deep muddled brownish black with a firm head o flight tan foam that subsides to a thick ring, thin layer, and excellent lacing. Nose of deeply roasted malts, subtle char, and very light coffee and subtle chocolate. Flavors follow the nose with deeply roasted malts on all sides, light coffee and chocolate come through on the middle to back mixed with light char notes and a touch of chalk. Nice mouth feel, but outside of the style with medium high carbonation, almost too much, that while keeping it lively takes away from a nice coating stout that finishes subtly dry. Nice session stout.

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