Triple Digit Series: O-H!
Listermann Brewing Company

 

Imperial stout brewed with chocolate and peanut butter. Poured from a bottle into a Triple Digit tulip. The pour is very dark, but not quite black. I can see a little light peeking through near the stem of the glass. It sports a mammoth 3-finger crown of dense foam with impressive staying power. I can hardly detect the nose through the foam, but I do get some roasted malt, chocolate, and peanuts.

Medium body with a slick feel and a well-constructed flavor. Plenty of roast and sweet notes from the malt, yet chocolate and peanuts are well-integrated and not over-done. The roasted malt and chocolate seem to be the stars here and the peanuts a supporting player. This keeps the flavor well-balanced between sweet and bitter, with added character from the peanuts. A nice earthy finish with mild roast lingers.

One of the better-tasting beers I've had featuring peanuts. Often these beers taste like dirt (no joke). This one is very drinkable. The peanuts and roast provide bitterness and the chocolate balances it out nicely.

 

1 Pint, 6 fl oz. bottle
Served in a snifter

This beer pours black in color and is topped with three inches of tan head that leaves some decent head.

I get some chocolate and dark fruit in the aroma. I don't pick up on any peanut butter.

The taste is roasted malt with bitter chocolate. I get the hints of dark fruit that I smelled. Once again, no peanut butter is perceivable.

Full mouthfeel

I was hoping that this would taste like an imperial Nutcase. It does not. It is a bitter stout.

 

 

22 oz bomber, poured into a snifter at ~45 degrees F.

Appearance: Pours your standard stout black, and forms a finger to a finger and a half of khaki foam head with a fairly aggressive pour. Said head fades rather quickly to a thick ring and cap. Lacing is decent, if patchy. While drinking, the edges of the liquid would let enough light through to resemble a glass of cola, with caramel-brown highlights along the border of the beer.

Smell: Chocolate and peanut butter hit my nose while the snifter was at arm's length, and only intensified with a swirl and sniff. Given that Ohio State's athletics go by the moniker "Buckeyes", it's rather fitting that this smells very like the signature Ohio bake sale goodie of the same name.

Taste: Peanut butter rolls over the tongue in spades, the edges wrapped in dark cocoa-heavy chocolate and burnt-grey charcoal ash. Something of a rummy-boozy note manifests as the beer begins to warm, surfacing from beneath the blanket of peanut butter as it passes mid-palate. Here and there, tiny hints of a vaguely sour plum or twangy licorice can be found, their presence increasing slowly as the beer warms. Peanut butter rules the day from start to finish, however, and lingers afterward, alongside a tinge of grey ashes.

Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied, and a tad thinner than I prefer my stouts, with some alcohol heat and a tang of sharpness from the carbonation.

Overall: If you like DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus!, you'll be a fan of O-H!. If you don't, you'll likely hate it. Needless to say, I'm a fan of SBJ, and this stout was similarly tasty. Not the most complex brew, just a straightforward dessert-style stout.