Peanut Butter PM Dawn
Trillium Brewing Company

 

9 months old. Can to tumbler.

L: Pours pitch black with a golden brown head that dissipates quickly without leaving any lacing. Plenty of fine, light brown floaters all over the glass.

S: Peanuts, coffee and dark chocolate. Not too sweet.

T: Sweet and salty peanut butter up front followed by notes of dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and a bitter coffeeish finish.

F: Smooth and creamy with a medium carbonation.

O: No-bullshit peanut butter stout which doesn’t taste like a candy bar overpowering you with tons of unnatural sweetness. Instead, the peanut butter notes are integrated nicely into the beer’s coffeeish base. The 9% ABV are hardly noticeable. Great stuff.

 

 

Sampling a 16 oz can of this beer, date stamp is 3/23/2022. Part of my winnings for the English Premier League BIF !!
Pouring at cellar temp into a snifter, the beer pours a dark coffee brown color and no light passes through the glass.
A dense tan foam of about 2 cm foams up from a gentle pour and fades slowly to a sturdy edge layer, plus one large island in the center of the glass.
Aroma is rich dark chocolate and a bit of roasted malt. This mixes with some sweeter peanut butter notes, not husky peanut shell, but more like a jar of spreadable PB. No hint of ABV nor any hops at this point in the sampling.
First sip reveals a medium body with very fine and tingly carbonation. The texture is pretty smooth and the beer drinks pretty easy for an imperial stout.
Flavor is dark chocolate and nutty peanut butter, with a little bit of a sweeter note too. This rolls to some roasted malts and a bit of sweetened coffee, definitely not bitter notes here. I dont get any hops nor any booziness anywhere.
This is a smooth peanut butter and dark chocolate cup mashed into a beer can. Drinks easy and feels nice. Pretty quality imperial stout that has good peanut butter character and isnt artificial tasting.

Canned 5/11/2020 - opened 5/8/2022
Poured black and viscous looking, capped with a 1” light brown head that faded fairly quickly and left no lacing.
The aroma was amazing, not so much as the smell alone (which was peanut butter first and stout second) but in the way it provided the peanut butter to the flavor- it wasn’t so much a flavor as much as part of the olfactory experience. I breathed in the peanut butter and drank the stout. Very curious and very cool.
The taste of the stout featured coffee and cocoa and caramel, but that might have been an artifact of the aroma.
The feel was smooth viscosity, just a pleasure to sip and experience.
Not normally a fan of peanut butter in my beer, but this one really works well, even after 2 years.

Pitch black like a stout should be. Trace of a head that faded quickly. Bubbles a bit too loose for a stout. Chocolate and peanut butter on the nose like a Reese's peanut butter cup. A bit boozy on the taste, and a bit thin on the mouth feel.

L- Black, thin head that leaves a rim of mocha suds around the glass....lacing is minimal

S-Roasted peanuts is the first impression......roasted black coffee with peanut shells.......maybe some vanilla, caramel, and wood

T-Taste is more subdued and complex vs. the nose........a nice blend of chocolate, coffee, and smooth creamy peanut butter....none of which takes the lead not sits in the background......finish is a lingering Reese's PB Cup without the sweetness

M-Smooth, creamy.....not much carb.,. Medium bodied

O- First OB Beer I have had.....very good......probably better during the winter vs a mid 60's spring day.....will let one rest til the fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canned 5/11/20

Wow. I’ve forgotten about this one in the back of my fridge for a LONG time. Like, almost a year. I keep a beer inventory list on my phone, and I remember seeing this a few months ago and thinking “oh, I must’ve already had this, I’ll take it off my list”. Let’s see how it holds up over nearly a year

Pours a very dark brown with a finger of tan head that fades to a thin ring and leaves minimal lacing

The peanut butter has kinda faded in this, but it feels somewhat more mature. I’m picking up on aromas of dark chocolate, roasted peanut, dark malt, and a touch of whiskey

A little more peanut butter in taste, but again it’s aged quite a bit. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting roasted malt, milk chocolate, and slightly spicy alcohol. The swallow brings notes of chalky peanut butter, caramel malt, milk chocolate, and a touch of hot alcohol

A full body pairs with gentle tingling carbonation, resulting a very slick beer. Finishes mostly dry with a nice sweetness

Good stuff here, but nothing mind blowing. Still happy I found it in the back of my fridge tho

16 oz. can. Black. Smells of peanut butter and a little roasted malt. Tastes of peanut butter. Lots of peanut butter. A little sweet maltiness. Medium heavy. More peanut butter than any beer I've had. Not sure I love it, but at least it doesn't have any peanut butter weird off flavors.