Mushhushshu - Neapolitan
Rhinegeist Brewery
- From:
- Rhinegeist Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.46 | pDev: 1.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This elusive brew is a thoughtful blend of a variety of dark ales selected from several barrel types and vintages enriched with generous additions of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. The result is an exceptionally complex and chimerical concoction that uncoils from oaken slumber emanating notes of rich chocolate, toasted vanilla, and ripe berries-a rare and majestic beast indeed.]
Vintage 2023 Aged 12-24 months Barrels Selected from New Riff Distilling
Vintage 2023 Aged 12-24 months Barrels Selected from New Riff Distilling
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.35/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Where creativity meets creamy, 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 chocolate, vanilla and strawberry for a sweet and silky spin on Rhinegeist's fabled ale.
Equially as dark, luscious and delicately inky as the standard Mushhushshu, this Neapolitan inspired version aligns the glass with a similarly firm cappuccino froth. Its robust fragrance is dominant of ice cream, but also with coffee, cocoa, dark sugars along with the whimsy of heavy cream. But its flavors begin sweetly with the caramel, molasses, vanilla, toffee, candied nuttiness 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 fade of ice cream. With hints of grilled red berry, a fruity tone is set while the sweet cream stew 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 firm additions of both vanilla and milk chocolate.
Full bodied, 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 sweetness 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 11, 2023Equially as dark, luscious and delicately inky as the standard Mushhushshu, this Neapolitan inspired version aligns the glass with a similarly firm cappuccino froth. Its robust fragrance is dominant of ice cream, but also with coffee, cocoa, dark sugars along with the whimsy of heavy cream. But its flavors begin sweetly with the caramel, molasses, vanilla, toffee, candied nuttiness 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 fade of ice cream. With hints of grilled red berry, a fruity tone is set while the sweet cream stew 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 firm additions of both vanilla and milk chocolate.
Full bodied, 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 sweetness 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.
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