Beer Review - Kungaloosh Spiced Excursion Ale

"Kungaloosh Spiced Excursion Ale"

This beer looks like danger, let’s get closer!

When I first started exploring “Kungaloosh Spiced Excursion Ale” I was left with a mystery. Who is brewing this little number. It’s a mystery filled with excitement and fun, and maybe no answers, which would please any Jungle Cruise fan!

Concrete Beach Brewery’s “Kungaloosh Spiced Excursion Ale” is a Jungle Cruise-themed Walt Disney World exclusive beer which can be found in the Magic Kingdom at the Jungle Navigation Co. LTD Skipper Canteen, Disney Springs at Jock Lindseys’ Hanger Bar, and the Animal Kingdom at the Nomad Lounge and Tiffin’s Restaurant. For a specialty beer, you can find it fairly widely in the adventurous parts of the World! You miss it on one turn of your river adventure, perhaps it will pop up like a hippo at another spot. It is a 6% ABV, no IBU herbed or spiced beer. For me it tastes like a wheat bread with the flair of ale with some light spice. I really want the spice to pop more and really lead with those pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg flavors that you would find in a winter warmer. It’s good, solid, and different than many other available brews all year long. I just want it spicy…baking spicy! I spent a few winters drinking Indeed Brewing’s “Stir Crazy” winter warmer exclusively. And there the spices were really showcased and to me helped define winter.

Wynwood’s Concrete Beach Brewery in the Miami area is the brewer of this exclusive beer. The brewery was founded in 2013, had a taproom full of social events and is reported to be a very adventurous spot! It also closed in 2020! The social media presence has been erased. It appears that Concrete Beach Brewery is truly no more. So this is the mystery to me? Who is brewing this beer? Did Disney take on the recipe and is contract brewing it through another partner. Does Concrete Beach exist as a company for their recipes and are contract brewing it and selling it to Disney. Did another brewery purchase the recipe and is taking it on for Disney, like Dogfish Head Brewing, who took on the Concrete Beach space when they closed. But Dogfish closed the Miami taproom in 2022! Is this temple cursed? I will rest before I find an answer to this mystery! But what a river to travel down. Is this a ghost beer that should be themed to The Haunted Mansion instead?


Who Drinks This? Jungle Cruise Fans, Adventurer’s Club fans will want to give this beer some love and vote with their sips to ensure this is a beer that stays on Disney taps. Honestly, I like it, but am not obsessed as I would like more flavor. It may also be based on location. At Skipper’s Canteen it is my go-to. At Nomad Lounge it’s coming in behind the “Tempting Tigress” as my go-to drink! “Kungaloosh Spiced Excursion Ale” is fun and has some flavor. I just don’t know if guests, who may only be running in for a few days, will have time to grab a second when there are other great choices on the itinerary.