Quadruple Shot - Peanut Butter Coconut
Tree House Brewing Company

 

For those times when double shot, or even triple shot isn't enough, Tree House rolls out the extreme quadruple shot and then powered with peanut butter and chocolate for a beer session that'll dwarf most any dessert.

The rich and decadent stout kicks off with a densely packed brownie batter consistency and a release of a dainty foamy lace. With the aroma of all-things-baked goods, the character of chocolate, coffee, peanut and toffee swoon the nose in a freshly roasted scent. Lavishly sweet and creamy, the first sip is firmly nougat-like with espresso roast, dark chocolate, peanut butter and vanilla cream that slather the palate like chocolate icing. A mild mannered bitterness closes the session with a hint of coffee-like balance with hardly any trace of coconut in sight.

Full bodied, pleasantly cloying and downright tasty, the stout may be hard to drink but is delicious for a taste.

 

 

Courtesy of @roguer from BIF '25

Pours pitch black with two fingers of mocha-colored head. Head takes some time to dissipate and leaves webbed lacing on the glass. Smells of popcorn-flavored jelly beans, peanuts and hint of chocolate and coconut. The popcorn-flavored candy dominates the nose as it warms. Taste introduces coffee and sweet cream to the mix, chocolate is there but not in your face, while peanuts and coconut assert themselves as the stars of this show. Fortunately, popcorn jelly beans are no where to be found in the taste. There is a sweetness to this stout and personally, I'd likely attribute this to be more of a milk stout than imp. Mouthfeel is thinly carbonated and luscious, almost as if lactose is there but isn't. Finish is faint bitterness, dark chocolate, and coconut with the 11.2% ABV no where to be found.

 

Roasted malt and... popcorn!? Peanut butter is more apparent in the smell but barely present the taste. Toasted coconut is lacking in the smell but comes through strongly in the taste. It's good but it's kind of all over the place.

This is my second Quad Shot variant. However, I have yet to sample the base beer.

The peanut butter is very assertive in the nose, but takes a back seat in the flavor profile. By contrast, the coconut doesn't show its head until the flavor profile. This is a bit of a mess of a beer. It's tasty, but not at all balanced.

 

Tons of peanut butter on the nose. Coconut is complementary and restrained. Chocolate notes and coffee from the base are background, but it’s still a fantastic aroma.

Thick and creamy on the palate. Not as peanut dominant as the nose. Notes of chocolate, peanut butter, coconut, coffee, cream, grape, toast, toffee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

peanut butter bomb in the nose. Peanut butter bomb in the taste. moderate milk chocolate notes and coffee notes are light. Finishes with smooth peanut butter and coconut. Ridiculously smooth stout. Wow factor is bigger than I could have guessed. Impressive.