Chocolate Peanut Butter Jifforia
Main & Mill Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

Canned on 3/4/2022; consumed on 12/11/2022

Pours a stark black body with slight brownish highlights and capped with just shy of a finger of dreamy, khaki-hued foam; decent head retention leaves a near-blank cap, moderate, creamy collar, and a limited array of webby lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aromas of peanut wafer ease to soft roast with undertones of dark chocolate; a light toast finds milk chocolate malt with airy lactose edges over time.

Taste opens to roasty peanuts with dark cocoa edges amplified by creamy lactose over the mid-palate as sweeter peanut oils evolve over the back end of the profile.

Mouthfeel shows a medium-full body with a weighty yet subdued carbonation, levying a soft, prickly grit through a wispy mid-palate as a roasty bittering settles to a creamy build over the back end and through the finish.

A modest stout carried by a lactose-based foundation and mild overall expression; though decent, the half-hearted sweetness and noncommittal peanut butter adjuncting leaves a bit to be desired.

 

 

Pours black with a finger of khaki foam. Aroma is strong peanut butter and chocolate. The peanut butter comes across more natural than other peanut butter beers, avoiding that dry, powdery quality. Heavy roasty and toasty malts behind add firm support, without excessive bitterness. It's bold enough to mask the 10% ABV, without being unwieldy heavy. Flavor profile is peanut butter, chocolate, toffee, and caramel with roasty and toasty malts. Great lead up between the chocolate and peanut butter, evoking a mild dessert profile without being overly sweet. Finish leans a little bit more into sweetness with lactose sugar residing on the tongue after the peanut butter and chocolate fades. Mouth feel is medium-thick with a mild creamy texture. Overall, a pleasant, decadent imperial stout that shows off peanut butter and chocolate well without being cloying or too heavy-handed.

Served in a 13.5oz Rastal glass from a 16oz can.

 

Great peanut butter; this gives Narrow Gauge’s PB & Stout a run for its money. Roasted peanuts and creamy peanut butter throughout, with a great chocolate base. Apparently I need to get more M&M.

16oz can. Poured out a an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of peanut butter, chocolate, toffee and toasted caramel. Very sweet peanut butter taste with chocolate, toffee and caramel.

This beer pours slappy out of the bottle to a matte black appearance with a moderate fizzy tan head that settles slowly, condensing to a firmer foam blanket.

Peanut butter aroma comes out of the glass right away, like wafers and Nutter Butters, accented by a light tang of dark roast malt.

Taste is actually more of a charred brown sugar and sweet toasty caramelized toffee malt at first, as the medium but round body's firm yet softly expanding carbonation fills the palate, exhaling peanut butter on the semi-sticky, wet-ish finish. The chocolate seems to be adding more of a sweetness and even a light cacao acidity that's almost tart but not quite, as opposed to a more savory or unctuous character. Some nibs bloom more as it warms, but it's still a lighter, brighter note than expected.

Coming back for a few more sips, it's becoming clear that the lactose is creating that sweet toasted brown sugar and caramelized toffee quality I got at first. Unfortunately, this quality becomes both more acrid and cloying with time, and overall a bit odd, like crystalized candy. This only makes it harder to drink the further I get into the session.

One of the thickest beers I’ve had, along with the most peanut butter flavor I’ve had.

poured into a taster glass via draft at Other Half's Pastry Town (3/16/2019)

Color is a nice midnight black with mocha foam

Smell is chocolate covered peanut butter

Taste follows the nose and is very sweet

Medium carbonation

Full decadent mouthfeel

An exceptional PB stout..one of my favorites of the festival