PB & Death
Iron Horse Brewery

Mild peanut butter flavor with the dark ale malt makes a nice drink, but other breweries have done it better. It pours a dark amber with minimal head that dissipates quickly. Slightly sweet with chocolate. It is a good ale with nice flavor, taste and mouthfeel, but I still prefer the Irish Death.

 

12 oz can from Brewers Haven. Dark pour, flat. Aroma tends towards the peanut butter. Taste brings more PB, with some dark malts underneath. Nutty, sweet, finishes with a small bitter bite.

 

Review #1416

I have consumed Irish Death by this brewery, it was a good beer but nothing spectacular. I have not reviewed that beer, but it is on my list. The beer is 46 degrees and served in a pint glass. The artwork on the can is similar to the Irish Death label. Immense malty aromas emitted after I opened the container. The pour of the beer produced a one-fingered light tan head. The retention of the beer was terrible. The beer's color chart around SRM 30, a rusty brown. The beer's appearance is meh.

Initial aromas of the beer are peanut butter, roasted malts, chocolate, toffee, caramel, and earthiness. Nosing further in the glass, I smell burnt sugar, raisins, bready, molasses, and fruity esters.

The flavors in the beer are peanut butter, roasted malts, chocolate, earth, hay, toffee, caramel, earthiness, burnt sugar, bread molasses, fruity esters, musty basement, and a touch of phenols.

The mouthfeel of the beer is carbonated and thin.

The body of the beer is medium, medium-plus carbonation, and medium finish.

This is what I did not like about this beer. The malty profile in the beer is not simple. The beer lacks depth and character. I get the peanut butter flavor in the beer, but I wanted additional flavors. The last Old Ale I drunk, the malt in the beer was solid. It was vibrant and rounded. The diluted beer makes it lack depth. I enjoyed the peanut butter flavor in the beer. Not much else, the beer is okay.

 

new cans look super sharp, and this variant is tasty too. i like how flavorful this is without being sweet, its not forced on the peanut side, and tastes natural and real to me, more authentic and less desserty than a lot of these, no chocolate being adjacent to the nuts i think also helps, the dark malt does plenty, and overall i found this tasty as a nightcap, and oddly drinkable for what it is, one of the better peanut butter beers in the game right now, and man there sure seem to be a lot of them! a little hazy to this, no shine at all, and the head settles pretty quick, nothing too visually impressive, but it smells and tastes really good, a light toasted character to the obvious peanut, some coffee quality to the dark barley in this, and very little residual sugar at any point. i love the dark earthy base, even light smokiness to this, and the way the peanut is there from start to finish without ever being dominant, more real nuts than actual peanut butter to me, not sticky or greasy at all. i wish for more carbonation, its just a touch flat, but thats okay in a dark sipper like this sometimes. this has a little rich and regal vibe to it, but is also a beer i would happily drink a few of. great job with the peanut aspect, and this is another brew that shows the impressive versatility of the original irish death, nicely done!

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque black in the glass with a thin khaki head that dissipates to a thick film with nice lacing. Aroma of dark biscuit and mildly toasted malt, a touch of cocoa and peanut butter. Flavor is biscuit malt with a touch of toastiness, peanut butter, vague dark fruit notes developing into a malty, peanutty finish. Medium bodied with light creaminess. Could not pass up a variant of one of my go-to malty ales, an old favorite. Like the base, it's basically an imperial brown ale, but with quite nice peanut butter character. The peanut flavor is well balanced with the malt, but pretty much covers the other subtle flavors of chocolate and mild coffee I remember from the original. The peanut flavor is nicely done and holds up on its own; this is a fine peanut ale. Somewhat lower ABV than the other Death ales, but full flavored.

 

Had the pleasure of enjoying this in the IHB Pub. Delicious and Malty. Just like drinking PB. Dark, near black color, and smooth as can be. Beautiful.