Peanut Butter & Raspberry Shake
Whitewater Brewing Company
- From:
- Whitewater Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 1.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 09, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 22, 2021
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.64/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Oct 28 2021 and served barely chilled.
Pours chestnut brown with crimson red highlights, producing one finger of smooth, foamy, light beige-coloured head. It fades off within a few minutes' time; its remnants include a tight collar and filmy cap, as well as a lovely curtain of sticky lace - looks about the same as their normal PB Shake beer, and the aroma is not much different, either. The peanut extract is not exactly subtle, and comes off more like roasted peanuts (vs. peanut butter), but hidden amidst the nuttiness are whiffs of roasted malts, chocolate, and raspberry jam.
Not bad, but the flavour profile isn't very cohesive. Cocoa and subtle raspberry purée at the forefront, with the avalanche of peanut extract/roasted peanut flavour barreling through immediately after. After that it's milk sugar, caramel and milk chocolate, with more peanut, lactose, roastiness and faint raspberry carrying into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with moderately low carbonation that gently tickles the surface of the palate; feels smooth, but also a little thin considering the "milkshake" theme.
As you'd expect, it's not a whole lot different than their original Peanut Butter Shake, save for the addition of the raspberries - though their contribution is underwhelming, at least compared to that of the peanut extract. One difference is that the original also listed chocolate extract as an ingredient, whereas this variant does not. That might be why this one seems so utterly dominated by the peanut extract, at the expense of nearly everything else. That being said, more raspberry might've helped this beer - if not its flavour profile, then at least it'd help justify its name.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B grade. I didn't love the first sip, but by the midpoint of the glass I was basically ok with Whitewater's Peanut Butter & Raspberry Shake. It doesn't come off as very 'natural', and it's totally a gimmick beer, but if "peanut butter beer" sounds appealing to you then I'd say this is worth the tick. I might return at some point, most likely to compare it to the original in a side-by-side.
Dec 10, 2021Pours chestnut brown with crimson red highlights, producing one finger of smooth, foamy, light beige-coloured head. It fades off within a few minutes' time; its remnants include a tight collar and filmy cap, as well as a lovely curtain of sticky lace - looks about the same as their normal PB Shake beer, and the aroma is not much different, either. The peanut extract is not exactly subtle, and comes off more like roasted peanuts (vs. peanut butter), but hidden amidst the nuttiness are whiffs of roasted malts, chocolate, and raspberry jam.
Not bad, but the flavour profile isn't very cohesive. Cocoa and subtle raspberry purée at the forefront, with the avalanche of peanut extract/roasted peanut flavour barreling through immediately after. After that it's milk sugar, caramel and milk chocolate, with more peanut, lactose, roastiness and faint raspberry carrying into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with moderately low carbonation that gently tickles the surface of the palate; feels smooth, but also a little thin considering the "milkshake" theme.
As you'd expect, it's not a whole lot different than their original Peanut Butter Shake, save for the addition of the raspberries - though their contribution is underwhelming, at least compared to that of the peanut extract. One difference is that the original also listed chocolate extract as an ingredient, whereas this variant does not. That might be why this one seems so utterly dominated by the peanut extract, at the expense of nearly everything else. That being said, more raspberry might've helped this beer - if not its flavour profile, then at least it'd help justify its name.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B grade. I didn't love the first sip, but by the midpoint of the glass I was basically ok with Whitewater's Peanut Butter & Raspberry Shake. It doesn't come off as very 'natural', and it's totally a gimmick beer, but if "peanut butter beer" sounds appealing to you then I'd say this is worth the tick. I might return at some point, most likely to compare it to the original in a side-by-side.
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