Stranger Than Peanut Butter & Banana
Collective Arts Brewing
- From:
- Collective Arts Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 2.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 19, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 25, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.69/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.69/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Collective Arts Brewing 'Stranger Than Peanut Butter & Banana' @ 5.5% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is a dirty brown from can to glass with a small tan head , leaving a fine spotty lace , last pour has floaters
S-peanut butter & ripe banana's
T-ripe banana's & peanut butter thru-out
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-funky peanut butter & banana porter/beer
prost LampertLand
Mar 19, 2022A-pour is a dirty brown from can to glass with a small tan head , leaving a fine spotty lace , last pour has floaters
S-peanut butter & ripe banana's
T-ripe banana's & peanut butter thru-out
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-funky peanut butter & banana porter/beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.49/5 rDev -2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.49/5 rDev -2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Tallboy can from the LCBO; dated Sept 9 2021 and served barely chilled.
Pours a muddy burnt sienna colour; looks like coffee with just a little bit of cream, except the cream is going bad, so there's visible clumps within the liquid. Ick, right? It's capped with nearly one finger of smooth, creamy, light tan-coloured head that collapses within ninety seconds or so, leaving behind a tight collar and little else. I am definitely getting overripe banana on the nose - I'm talking the thawed-out brown ones you'd use for banana bread. The peanut butter is considerably more subtle, and I didn't notice it much until the beer warmed up a little - try sniffing right from the can if you aren't getting it off the glass. Other than that, it's a little sweet and nutty, with hints of cocoa and dark chocolate.
It's not bad, but it doesn't come together as well as I'd hoped - overripe banana from start to finish, interspersed with hints of banana bread, brown sugar, milk chocolate and subtle peanut. Finishes with more sweet banana and faint suggestions of roasted malt; kind of a weird, weakly acidic twang that fades into the aftertaste. Medium in body, with moderately low carbonation that softly brushes the surface of the palate; feels smooth and slick on the tongue. Easy to drink if you don't mind banana-flavoured stuff, but kind of a slog otherwise.
Final Grade: 3.49, a B-. Stranger Than Peanut Butter & Banana is an unsurprisingly strange beer, and not very porter-like at all, but I did enjoy a couple of its individual elements. The mushy banana flavour seems authentic, and relatively novel as there aren't all that many 'banana beers' to pick from, at least not at the LCBO. Still, the peanut isn't a big player, and the beer itself stands out as being one of the few Collective Arts brews that I'm not sure I feel the need to return to - I'd take regular Stranger Than over this variant any day.
Dec 09, 2021Pours a muddy burnt sienna colour; looks like coffee with just a little bit of cream, except the cream is going bad, so there's visible clumps within the liquid. Ick, right? It's capped with nearly one finger of smooth, creamy, light tan-coloured head that collapses within ninety seconds or so, leaving behind a tight collar and little else. I am definitely getting overripe banana on the nose - I'm talking the thawed-out brown ones you'd use for banana bread. The peanut butter is considerably more subtle, and I didn't notice it much until the beer warmed up a little - try sniffing right from the can if you aren't getting it off the glass. Other than that, it's a little sweet and nutty, with hints of cocoa and dark chocolate.
It's not bad, but it doesn't come together as well as I'd hoped - overripe banana from start to finish, interspersed with hints of banana bread, brown sugar, milk chocolate and subtle peanut. Finishes with more sweet banana and faint suggestions of roasted malt; kind of a weird, weakly acidic twang that fades into the aftertaste. Medium in body, with moderately low carbonation that softly brushes the surface of the palate; feels smooth and slick on the tongue. Easy to drink if you don't mind banana-flavoured stuff, but kind of a slog otherwise.
Final Grade: 3.49, a B-. Stranger Than Peanut Butter & Banana is an unsurprisingly strange beer, and not very porter-like at all, but I did enjoy a couple of its individual elements. The mushy banana flavour seems authentic, and relatively novel as there aren't all that many 'banana beers' to pick from, at least not at the LCBO. Still, the peanut isn't a big player, and the beer itself stands out as being one of the few Collective Arts brews that I'm not sure I feel the need to return to - I'd take regular Stranger Than over this variant any day.
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