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Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate, Banana & Peanut Butter Ale
Rogue Ales
- From:
- Rogue Ales
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- 66
- Avg:
- 2.8 | pDev: 27.5%
- Reviews:
- 123
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 09, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2012
- Wants:
- 58
- Gots:
- 115
Rogue Ales has again collided with Voodoo Doughnut to create Chocolate, Banana & Peanut Butter Ale! This unique artisan creation contains a baker's dozen ingredients including chocolate, banana and peanut butter to match Voodoo’s "Memphis Mafia" doughnut- a nod to Elvis' entourage
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Ratings by tectactoe:
Reviewed by tectactoe from Michigan
3.14/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.14/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Though my taste buds still quiver at the thought of Rogue's last Voodoo Doughnut mash-up (Bacon Maple Smoked Shit Beer), that wouldn't stop me from trying their latest abomination in the making... especially when the three main ingredients are three things I love. How can you go wrong with bananas, chocolate, and peanut butter? Then again, that's what I said about bacon and maple, too.
It pours surprisingly dark; deep brown coming out of the bottle, taking on more of an obsidian shade as it sits in the glass. The head is absolutely huge; beige in color and towering to an astounding three inches. It was chunky and puffy, showed excellent staying power, and left behind some of the best lacing I've ever seen. I'm talking some FAT ass lacing, 360 degrees around. I'll give it that - it looks pretty great.
The aroma is stained with hefty amounts of overripe, nearly rotten bananas and banana skins laying on top of a slightly roasted malt blanket. Chocolate malts are lighter at first, but get stronger with warmth (and once you start trying to really look for them). The chocolate really isn't sweet or roasty or dark... it just smells like bland cocoa powder in the background and nothing more.
I'm wasn't really picking up any peanut butter in the aroma at all, at first. Maybe a faint, dry nuttiness in the very tail end, but I wouldn't say it smelled like peanut butter. Near the end of the glass, however, the peanut butter crept in a bit and took on a very slight "peanut butter cup with banana" aroma. Sounds good, right? Well, it wasn't awful. It wasn't even bad. It was just a little artificial and contrived. Maybe a little too messy when all is said and done.
The taste is a bit muddled and even a little bit of a let down from the aroma, though not nearly as much of a let down as the Bacon Maple ale. The problem is you've got banana, chocolate, and peanut butter bum rushing your palate all at one, in separate parts rather than entwined harmoniously. The mouth feel (and therefore, flavor) is also a bit watery, possible a consequence of the low alcohol tag?
Malty and lightly chocolate is the base upon which some banana extract flavor rest. Peanut butter is still the lightest component, as it kind of sits quietly in the back like the lonely, left-out adjunct. The beer has a weird, sharply bitter twinge about halfway through - I doubt it's from hoppage, so it might be from the roast of the malt. This astringency isn't very enjoyable, although this beer really wasn't that bad, and it was far from "hard to drink" like many people here would say.
I think so many people were let down by the Bacon Maple ale that they decided to write this one off before even trying it. If you go into a beer assuming it's going to taste like shit, then it'll probably taste like shit. This beer wasn't exactly "good" and it's not something I would go out and get again, but it was drinkable and it was different, and it was about six thousand times better than the Bacon Maple ale.
Jun 17, 2013It pours surprisingly dark; deep brown coming out of the bottle, taking on more of an obsidian shade as it sits in the glass. The head is absolutely huge; beige in color and towering to an astounding three inches. It was chunky and puffy, showed excellent staying power, and left behind some of the best lacing I've ever seen. I'm talking some FAT ass lacing, 360 degrees around. I'll give it that - it looks pretty great.
The aroma is stained with hefty amounts of overripe, nearly rotten bananas and banana skins laying on top of a slightly roasted malt blanket. Chocolate malts are lighter at first, but get stronger with warmth (and once you start trying to really look for them). The chocolate really isn't sweet or roasty or dark... it just smells like bland cocoa powder in the background and nothing more.
I'm wasn't really picking up any peanut butter in the aroma at all, at first. Maybe a faint, dry nuttiness in the very tail end, but I wouldn't say it smelled like peanut butter. Near the end of the glass, however, the peanut butter crept in a bit and took on a very slight "peanut butter cup with banana" aroma. Sounds good, right? Well, it wasn't awful. It wasn't even bad. It was just a little artificial and contrived. Maybe a little too messy when all is said and done.
The taste is a bit muddled and even a little bit of a let down from the aroma, though not nearly as much of a let down as the Bacon Maple ale. The problem is you've got banana, chocolate, and peanut butter bum rushing your palate all at one, in separate parts rather than entwined harmoniously. The mouth feel (and therefore, flavor) is also a bit watery, possible a consequence of the low alcohol tag?
Malty and lightly chocolate is the base upon which some banana extract flavor rest. Peanut butter is still the lightest component, as it kind of sits quietly in the back like the lonely, left-out adjunct. The beer has a weird, sharply bitter twinge about halfway through - I doubt it's from hoppage, so it might be from the roast of the malt. This astringency isn't very enjoyable, although this beer really wasn't that bad, and it was far from "hard to drink" like many people here would say.
I think so many people were let down by the Bacon Maple ale that they decided to write this one off before even trying it. If you go into a beer assuming it's going to taste like shit, then it'll probably taste like shit. This beer wasn't exactly "good" and it's not something I would go out and get again, but it was drinkable and it was different, and it was about six thousand times better than the Bacon Maple ale.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by rand from California
2.9/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
2.9/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
This relic of Rogue's salad days has been sitting in the back of my beer fridge now for 10 years. I didn't intentially 'cellar' it, I was just so excited by the pink bottle and the jaded by the subsequent review that I put off popping the top.
At the risk of being anti-climatic...yeah, it's bad. Not as bad as the reviews here convey, but it's just, boring. Kinda reminds me of a beer that's popular here in San Diego...Belching Beaver's Peanut Butter Stout - there's nothing stout about it, and there sure as hell isn't any peanut butter in it. But if you like grape candy more than grapes, it might hit the spot. Otherwise, it's forgettable. Just added some room in my beer fridge that I didn't know existed. Next.
Oct 09, 2023At the risk of being anti-climatic...yeah, it's bad. Not as bad as the reviews here convey, but it's just, boring. Kinda reminds me of a beer that's popular here in San Diego...Belching Beaver's Peanut Butter Stout - there's nothing stout about it, and there sure as hell isn't any peanut butter in it. But if you like grape candy more than grapes, it might hit the spot. Otherwise, it's forgettable. Just added some room in my beer fridge that I didn't know existed. Next.
Rated by kty47 from Massachusetts
1.45/5 rDev -48.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.25
1.45/5 rDev -48.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.25
So, so bad and ill-conceived. WHY?!
Mar 12, 2019Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
3.01/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 3
3.01/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 3
**
12/21/13
Not bad. Chocolate is prevalent, but not bitter like a choc stout. Banana is masked, but there. I don’t get the peanut butter. This is better than the maple bacon offering. Interesting.
**
Mar 25, 201612/21/13
Not bad. Chocolate is prevalent, but not bitter like a choc stout. Banana is masked, but there. I don’t get the peanut butter. This is better than the maple bacon offering. Interesting.
**
Rated by IdrinkBeerinCollege from Oregon
3.58/5 rDev +27.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev +27.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Meh....
Dec 29, 2015Reviewed by DaveAnderson from Minnesota
3.61/5 rDev +28.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev +28.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Passed on this many times, but when I saw it in a store recently, I realized this was probably my last chance to try it. I've been to Portland, and I've been to Voodoo Doughnut, so I think I get the point of this series, and I respect Rogue for it, even if they don't always work.
Anyway, the beer. If you took away the banana, this would be a pretty good brown ale with chocolate. At this point, the peanut butter has faded to a hint, but perhaps it contributes to the mouthfeel. It's hard to say. But there's plenty of banana, and not in the way people often describe wheat beers or some Belgians. This is banana popsicle banana. It's partially balanced by the chocolate, but I'm not sure I like it.
I'm not sure I hate it, either. It's an oddball. I'm probably going easy on the rating, since a) I recognize that this beer is a couple of years old, and b) I appreciate what Rogue is shooting for. I'm trying to rate to a style when there is no appropriate style.
Regardless, this is wholly drinkable. Hate the bottle, though.
Sep 11, 2015Anyway, the beer. If you took away the banana, this would be a pretty good brown ale with chocolate. At this point, the peanut butter has faded to a hint, but perhaps it contributes to the mouthfeel. It's hard to say. But there's plenty of banana, and not in the way people often describe wheat beers or some Belgians. This is banana popsicle banana. It's partially balanced by the chocolate, but I'm not sure I like it.
I'm not sure I hate it, either. It's an oddball. I'm probably going easy on the rating, since a) I recognize that this beer is a couple of years old, and b) I appreciate what Rogue is shooting for. I'm trying to rate to a style when there is no appropriate style.
Regardless, this is wholly drinkable. Hate the bottle, though.
Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate, Banana & Peanut Butter Ale from Rogue Ales
Beer rating:
66 out of
100 with
769 ratings
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