Peanut Butter Porter
Bad Shepherd Brewing Co.

I will not pretend this is my first time having this beer, in actual fact, it was one of my first loves when I branched out to porter beer. So approachable and easy to love.

Peanut Butter Porter @badshepherdbrewingco

Porter

6.4%

An aroma you can fall in love with. Every whiff is sweet peanut butter & milky chocolate, reminiscent of a Reese’s bar. The brew itself in not as dark as I’d like, it pours more of a dark brown even a bit of ruby. The head forms on its own time and dissipated into more of a collar before burning away completely.

The big star here is the peanut butter, it is the dominating profile. Add that to the chocolate malt and you have a killer combination. I know a few other brewers have tried this but often add another element and that really drowns out the show we all came to see. Far more of a butter creaminess in the mouth than on the nose and a medium body. Slightly dry in the end with some cocoa bitterness.

A simple brew, but most seem to overdo it. Glad the team at Shepherd have added this gem to the core range.

Cheers

 

Gifted for Christmas 2022 and drunk in May 2023.

L: It's a slightly ruddy, eggplant-coloured beer with a thin, off-white head. There's lots of very-small-bubbled carbonation visible at the sides of the glass, but as the beer goes opaque and forbids light entry beyond the edge of the glass, nothing more can be seen.

S: The smell is massively peanut butter, with a creamy, hazelnut edge. It smells pretty much like beer shouldn't, but it matches the can's label, so extra marks for that.

T: With such strong aromatics it's no surprise that the taste very closely follows the nose. There's a bit of roasty bitterness right at the back of the swallow, and for such a sweet-tasting beer it finishes quite crisply and never approaches cloyingness. That said, the sweetness means I would likely struggle to go back for another one.

F: Mouthfeel is surprisingly bitey with a carbonic kick on the swallow. That extra bite probably helps reign in the beer's sweetness and so fits the whole experience well.

O: My overriding thought here is that the beer is a novel one-off, but it's not something I'd go back for. The sweetness would likely become too much after a while, and I'd crave something clean and crisp to wash away the peanuts.

Cheers!
#248

355ml can, packaged on 06/04/2020. Poured into a tulip.
Look: cola black/brown. About 2-3cm bubbly tan head. Sticks around for a while.
Smell: chocolate, hazelnut, a little peanut buttery I spose.
Taste: similar to the smell, milk chocolate and nuts, a little bit of roastiness, something a little herbal towards the end.
Feel: mid bodied, mouth filling, maybe a touch oily somehow.
Overall: hard to judge. Tastes how it says, but not really to my taste