Dragon's Milk Reserve - Peanut Butter & Cocoa Nibs
New Holland Brewing Company

12 oz bottle from the Beer Stop in Tallahassee, Florida.

The peanut butter flavor here is in about equal balance with the base BBA stout. Cocoa nibs raise the level of chocolate from the standard Dragons Milk. I found this variant to be not quite as pleasing as regular Dragons Milk, let alone most of the other variants I've tried. It doesn't help that the carbonation was too low to raise a head.

 

12 FL. OZ. bottle
Served in a snifter

This beer pours black and is topped with a short mocha head that disappears quickly.

I get some booze, caramel, and peanut butter. Oh, there's the chocolate.

A little boozy flavor. I get caramel and chocolate. A little peanut butter.

Medium bodied with a smooth mouthfeel

It was decent. A little boozy and not much PB.

 

A - Darkl brown pour that

S - Chocolate and peanut butter aroma that's overall light.

T - Chocolate, Bourbon, cherry, alcohol, toasted cocoa, vanilla, and finishes on the boozy side with lingering toasted cocoa and Bourbon. Peanut butter shows up (barely) on the extreme back end.

M - Big full body with soft pricklies (initially) and then subsides to a big, silky texture.

O - Not getting any peanut butter out of this but overall, pretty decent.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a dark cola color with a light tan head that evaporates pretty quickly. The nose is a bit boozy, which is common with the Dragon’s Milk beers, and there’s nice cocoa aromas and a nutty aroma as well.

The taste features the cocoa flavors, and there’s a pretty nice peanut butter flavor as well, though I’m not sure it’s quite “peanut butter cup” level. The barrel is noted on the back of the palate.

The mouthfeel is a bit watery, but overall this is a really nice adjunct imperial stout.

12 ounce bottle, bottled 02/01/21 stamped on the bottle. Served in a Dragon's Milk chalice, the beer pours dark brown/black with almost an inch tan head that fizzled away quickly. There's a decent amount of lacing. Aroma is nice, the brew smells like peanut butter, vanilla, roasted malt, cocoa nibs and some bourbon. Taste is pretty much like the aroma, but there's also some burnt/charred malt and oaky flavors noticeable too. Barrel character is light in this brew, at least compared to the other Dragon's Milk brews I've had. Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it's slick and smooth with a moderate amount of carbonation. I liked this brew, but with that being said I'm glad I just got a single of it since I prefer the other Dragon's Milk variants more than this one. Still worth trying if you get the chance to!

Modest at best head production and retention.

Nose implies peanut butter, chocolate, bourbon, banana, nuts, and cola on the pour; up close, a lot of that complexity disappears. The same notes are there, just very restrained once the beer has had the chance to sit in the glass.

Despite the modest nose, there's plenty of flavor on the nose. It tastes like a peanut butter and chocolate s'more using honeycomb instead of Graham cracker. It's a bit thin, but not at all lacking in flavor. Consistent with DM, it's a bit light on bourbon flavor, but what is there does complement the overall profile.

not as great as threir other reserves , nice smooth taste but not great

 

Black in color with a fingernail of brown on top. I smell milk chocolate. I'm tasting peanut butter and milk chocolate. The mouth is lightly oily, but otherwise surprisingly smooth.

Well.
The nose is boozy and smells of peanut butter, but first whiff seemed a little off.
Taste is underwhelming. It's the combination of a thin mouthfeel, a weak peanut butter flavor, and nothing barrel-like to recommend it as a reserve stout.
Bottled 01/28/21, it poured a tan film that was here and gone in a fizz. No lacing or ring. Letting it warm helped. A little but not much.