Fluffernuttergus
White Elm Brewing Company

Brownish black pour, beige tiny ring. Huge sweet and nutty peanut butter with roasted malts and toasted marshmallow in the nose, maybe a kiss of vanilla sugar in there too. Roast seems very heavy. Taste turns out that it is, peanut butter is salty and burnt, marshmallow is char, slight ashtray to the malts, just messy. Feel is thin, watery, roasted, and simply breaks down before the finish. Starting to get burned by WE too frequently....

 

 

Fluffernuttergus was one of the top picks in my first ever Tavour box. The smell of the beer is 10/10. Peanut butter, marshmallow, and dark chocolate. The taste follows suit and you get all those flavors. The beer isn't as thick as you would think with this profile but it works. Like eating a box of chocolate covered peanuts.

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Found this 16 oz. can at a local boat launch, so not sure of the pedigree, but at least I know it’s not light struck.

The pour is lots of ounces of Trans Am black. The nose is awash in sticky peanut butter. My wife is gagging from five feet away.

Fluffernuttergus is dull. The promise of marshmallow & peanut butter & stout are all but faints ghosts on the palate, like character acting from Nicholas Cage.

That’s all I have. Dull & quiet & unremarkable.

 

16 oz can, into Carpe Brew Em snifter.

Deep inky black pour which yields a slightly lighter chocolate brown to black with a beige fingernail of head and slight lace on the sides.

The aroma is very fun with chunky peanut butter and Butterfinger candy bar. Further effort yields marshmallow and Cheerios mixed in, giving off a vapor of a sticky and sweet treat from the glass pan. It is just delectable.

Flavor has got to be the biggest disappointment ever. Flip flop from the aroma. It's like if you pulled a wasted away candy bar out of soapy dishwater after it had been soaking for three days. The dirty dishwater and soapiness prevails, followed by hints of peanut paste, a ghost note of marshmallow; perfume, earthy and herbal hops, dry cacao, and pepper. Nearly zero sweetness and mostly two-dimensional compared to the nose. Then comes the alcohol heat which gives off a good shot of ethanol on the back palate.

Feel is actually thin and lifeless. This is a surprise to me. White Elm has never been off target on their stout mouthfeel. There's a bit of carbonation but it seems to die out rather quickly as the glass comes to room temp. Then there's this sticky-oily-drying thing on my back palate that parches me for thirst and is unlike anything I've ever had in over 3,000 beers.

Overall, I'm left scratching my head wondering what happened here. I may have gotten a bad can, but these guys are pretty good with consistency. White Elm is a brewery known for great executions on nearly everything they release. But this was terrible. It's almost like they're under new management, or a new brewmaster, or something. For White Elm this is just unacceptable. Worst White Elm beer I've had to date.

Price paid : $4.29 / can
Would buy again : Definitely not

White Elm Fluffernuttergus Imperial Milk Pastry Stout, 12.5% ABV. Pours black with a small brown head that left no lacing. Nose is peanut butter, chocolate, and marshmallow. Taste follows with peanut butter prevailing, some lactose, moderately sweet, no bitterness. Sure can't taste the alcohol. Excellent mouthfeel, if a bit under-carbonated. Overall outstanding. Fluffer supposedly refers to marshmallows.