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Yes, the following beer might be a few rungs above over the top but that is par for the course from Pipeworks Brewing in Chicago.
The beer is El Unicornio and it will be an Amburana Wood-Aged Horchata Ale with rice, lactose, vanilla and cinnamon.
King Harbor Brewing has a new spin on a Horchata inspired beer, Coco-Chata starts life as a wheat beer. Here is the explainer from the brewery, “This cerveza was inspired by horchata, that heavenly and sweet rice drink you have with your tacos. It’s loaded with toasted rice, raw and toasted coconut, Madagascar vanilla beans, cinnamon blend and lactose. Each sip gives you balanced notes of cinnamon, sweet vanilla, rice, and coconut on the back end.”
Yeah, that headline is facetious to a degree but I do not know how I missed the first go-round of the Horchata IPA…
Obviously, the star of this Mumford / Magnify collaboration is the lactose. Americans will suck down sweet no matter what. But the spice profile of Horchata seems to lend itself to more of a stout or a golden milk stout. I do not see how cinnamon and nutmeg would blend with hops. But maybe it is an opposites attract thing.
By the time this posts the beer will probably be sold out and trading online proving me to the contrarian yet again