Mushhushshu Salted Caramel
Rhinegeist Brewery
- From:
- Rhinegeist Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 1.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 17, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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BBA Dark Ale with sea salt, vanilla and caramel
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Where creativity meets savory, that's where Mushhushshu lives- a strong dark ale that has spent a long slumber in a blend of used spirits barrels, right beside of bourbon and caramel for a sweet and rounded spin on Rhinegeist's fabled ale.
Equially as dark, luscious and delicately inky as the standard Mushhushshu, this Salted Caramel inspired version aligns the glass with a similarly firm cappuccino froth. Its robust fragrance is dominant of caramel, but also with coffee, cocoa, dark sugars along with the whimsy of toffee. But its flavors begin sweetly with the caramel, molasses, toffee, nutty brittle and sorghum of both the barrel and the sweet barley kernels.
A patient transition to the the earthen char of dark-roast coffee, bittersweet chocolate and gentle smoldering embers slowly emerge with the malt sweetness. With hints of grilled dark fruits, a tone is set while the caramel stewing away as the ale treads onto the middle palate. Its final frame is light of oaken complexities, bourbon, and rye barrel spices, along with the gentle additions of sea salt for a natural roundness to amplify the savory sweet finish.
Full bodied, pleasantly sweet and politely laborious on the palate, the big and luscious ale lingers with clinging sweetness and a spicy barrel-aged warmth that breaks up its residual malts to offer a semblance of drinkability and warming dryness on the late palate. Defying styles, the ale strikes a chord that's somewhere between Belgian quad, sweet stout and porter and British stock ale.
Oct 17, 2023Equially as dark, luscious and delicately inky as the standard Mushhushshu, this Salted Caramel inspired version aligns the glass with a similarly firm cappuccino froth. Its robust fragrance is dominant of caramel, but also with coffee, cocoa, dark sugars along with the whimsy of toffee. But its flavors begin sweetly with the caramel, molasses, toffee, nutty brittle and sorghum of both the barrel and the sweet barley kernels.
A patient transition to the the earthen char of dark-roast coffee, bittersweet chocolate and gentle smoldering embers slowly emerge with the malt sweetness. With hints of grilled dark fruits, a tone is set while the caramel stewing away as the ale treads onto the middle palate. Its final frame is light of oaken complexities, bourbon, and rye barrel spices, along with the gentle additions of sea salt for a natural roundness to amplify the savory sweet finish.
Full bodied, pleasantly sweet and politely laborious on the palate, the big and luscious ale lingers with clinging sweetness and a spicy barrel-aged warmth that breaks up its residual malts to offer a semblance of drinkability and warming dryness on the late palate. Defying styles, the ale strikes a chord that's somewhere between Belgian quad, sweet stout and porter and British stock ale.
Reviewed by Brutaltruth from Ohio
4.35/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From the growler via Growler Stop in Newtown. This monster pours a murky muddled
blackish brown with a moderate head of off white foam that settles to a thin ring, faint
dusty layer, and sports some nice legs. Nose of rich caramel, toffee, bourbon, vanilla,
faint coconut, molasses, and subtle oak with dark fruit hints dashed with salt. Flavors
find their place nicely in this unique brew. Mellow bourbon, oak, vanilla, toffee, caramel,
brown sugars, dark berry notes of black and blueberry, and balanced sea salt. Mouth feel is
full, smooth, rich, moderately coating, light carbonation, and a lightly warm finish.
Overall, it defies some of the classifications. It is a dark ale, but teeters on a stout. With
pastry elements that are nicely placed it is very nice but hard to classify other
than saying a fine hybrid.
Cheers
Sep 30, 2023blackish brown with a moderate head of off white foam that settles to a thin ring, faint
dusty layer, and sports some nice legs. Nose of rich caramel, toffee, bourbon, vanilla,
faint coconut, molasses, and subtle oak with dark fruit hints dashed with salt. Flavors
find their place nicely in this unique brew. Mellow bourbon, oak, vanilla, toffee, caramel,
brown sugars, dark berry notes of black and blueberry, and balanced sea salt. Mouth feel is
full, smooth, rich, moderately coating, light carbonation, and a lightly warm finish.
Overall, it defies some of the classifications. It is a dark ale, but teeters on a stout. With
pastry elements that are nicely placed it is very nice but hard to classify other
than saying a fine hybrid.
Cheers
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