The name is a mouthful, but this collaboration between Cerveza Mur and Juguetes Perdidos is also a mouthful but in a good way. There is so much happening ingredients-wise you would expect this to be difficult to pull off, but these two brewers did a great job of making a well-balanced, complex, black IPA that is close to a dessert beer but manages not to overdo it on the sweet side.
They use three hops, Citra, Simcoe, and Mosaic.
When I take in the aroma, I get some fruit, probably from the Citra hops, but it’s mostly cinnamon, cacao, and vanilla. They also added lactose, malts, oatmeal, and maltodextrin for good measure to end up with a full-bodied beer. This beer is smooth going down.
If you don’t know what maltodextrin is, don’t worry, neither did I, and I was in the food industry; we just never used it in our products. It’s safe. It’s used as a thickening agent. Maltodextrin is a white powder made from corn, rice, potato starch, or wheat. The hops they used are trendy, and seeing them on the label, I thought this was going to be a very tropical, fruity, and dry beer. Still, as I said, they managed to balance it all out to get a very well balanced dry beer with just enough of each ingredient.
Unfortunately, this has become one of my favorite beers. It is unfortunate only because it’s a collaboration, limited-production beer, so I am going to enjoy the hell out of my two cans that I bought. By the time I finished my first can, I had understood the name they had given it. You will have to take my word for it unless you find it around somewhere.
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ABV 7%
Brewers: Mur and Jugetes Perdidos