I'm a big Terrapin fan, and I was fortunate to have a glass of Moo-Hoo on release day down at Trapeze on my birthday. On tap it was fabulous, and the question was whether it'd carry over well to the bottle version.
We tried some last night, and we were most definitely not disappointed.
The Moo-Hoo is a good drinkable beer. It has a low-key personality, but a solid malty flavor. Compare this to Sam Adams Chocolate Rock - which also has a low profile, but doesn't have nearly as much enjoyability. I have to force myself not to think about the Chocolate Rock while I drank it. Not so with the Moo-Hoo.
Chocolatey Moo-hoo is made from real milk and cocoa (on Terrapin's Facebook page when they were brewing it, they described it as a giant glass of chocolate milk.) Those flavors are faintly detectable as notes in the beer. The hops are smothered in the malted milk, but the beer doesn't suffer for it.
Probably not best paired with pizza as we did, but instead put it with a good chicken finger plate or sweet pasta. It might also make a good foil to a hot and spicey dish.
My score: A
Yet another solid seasonal addition to the Terrapin family. Hopefully they will make this available year round. That's the only sad thing about their seasonable and side projects... some of them go away!
Pick up a six pack at most local places in Athens.
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