Significant - Peanuts and Vanilla
BuckleDown Brewing

 

12 ounce can into a snifter. Canned 11/?/19, had 5/27/20.

Pours an opaque dark brown, with a one inch foamy head and a good amount of foamy lacing. Aromas of vanilla, chocolate, roasted malt, molasses, some bourbon, some oak and prunes, faint peanut. More bourbon shows in the flavor, then vanilla, chocolate, roasted malt, molasses, some oak and caramel, a light bitterness, faint peanut. Smooth, a good but thinner feeling full body, well carbonated.

Excellent vanilla, but the peanuts are hard to come by. The hearty, roasted feel of the original is missing here, almost makes it seem like a different beer. Still, the vanilla and barrels make this enjoyable.

(1/3) Pitch black with a brown cap. Read carefully, peanuts, not peanut butter, distinction is made known right away in the smell, roasted, salty, and full nuttiness is on display, with whiskey, cocoa, nougat and rounded out by vanilla. Taste takes away a lot of the nuance of the nose, salty peanuts with some booze and malt. Good if you want that flavor in a drink. That's where I am torn, because it doesn't fail to deliver the stars, but it doesn't have a lot else. Anyways, feel is roasted, sightly salty, warm with booze, and full. Truly unique. The wife liked it

12oz, canned on 11/20/19. Pitch black body with a tall and frothy brown head. Aromas of peanuts are bold along with dark cocoa and bourbon. Peanuts are heavy in flavor along with dark cocoa, bourbon, roasted barley, oak, earthy hops, and faint vanilla. Full body, ample carbonation, booze is warming but not hot. Overall, the peanuts overpower a lot of the other notes of this beer. It is good, but all flavors take a back seat to the peanuts.