Chocolate Coffee Peanut Butter Nitro Porter
Copper State Brewing Company

 

 

 

Pours a medium brown with a very fine bubbled head of foam about three fingers deep. Aroma is strongly peanut butter, which really masks almost everything else except for coffee. Taste is very strongly the opposite -- coffee prominent with peanut butter next in line. The brew seems very low in carbonation for all the bubbles seen in the head and that seems a shame.

16oz can enjoyed at my uncle's house on mother's day. Black pour, nice nitro look. Smell is heavy on the peanut butter. Chocolate peanut butter taste bordering on a Yankee candle. Thin and easy to drink, not too sweet or heavy

Pours out of the can a dark brown, almost no light can pass through it. A rough pour yields about 2 inches of thick head with good lacing. Smells of peanut butter, graham cracker, and cocoa. Tastes very similar to the smell. I thought the mouthfeel was thinner than I was expecting with the density of the brew in all other senses.

In a craft beer world where malty beers mean pastry-this and diabetic shock-that, it seems that any sense of grace, finesse or refinement doesn't really have anything to do with boldness, roast or robust. But that's before we've had a chance to try Copper State's chocolate, coffee and peanut butter nitrogenated porter.

Very dark brown and easily portrayed as dark roast coffee, the simply named Chocolate Coffee Peanut Butter Nitro Porter patiently allows its dense and creamy mocha froth to pull from its cascading body and to adorn the rim with a rich and creamy meringue. A bold roast bust subdued sweet scent rolls across the nose with the strong suggestion of coffee and cream in a most frappuccino kind of way. But its caramelized flavors bring the malts to life with a creamy sweetness of peanut butter, chocolate, vanilla cream and toffee.

That's where the beer sits through the bulk of the middle palate, sitting on the tongue like pillow nougat. But as the tightly knit bubbles dissolve, the coffee flavors pull through the peanut, chocolate and caramel sweetness to give this peanut buttercup accented beer with a dark coffee balance in all its woodsy, campfire and savory glory.

Medium full in body, the creaminess of the nitrogen has the beer feeling fuller to start, but the beer finishes remarkably dry, effortless and refreshing with a hint of kahlua and cream. Nitro beers commonly mute the beer's character far too much but that's certainly not the case here.

 

 

 

 

From tasting notes 3/12/20
Had on-tap at Copper State Brewing in Green Bay, WI

Appearance - Served up in a pint, cola brown in color with a light tan, frothy, two-finger width head. Good retention, leaving behind a thin, consistent layer of suds. Thick lacing, with sheeting, devolving into webbing, broken lines and small spotting.

Smell - Prominent peanut butter aroma with lesser milk chocolate and just a hint of coffee roast.

Taste - Follows the nose. Peanut butter and chocolate sweetness upfront, before a touch of coffee roast adds some bitterness. Flavor falls off rather quickly, leaving a somewhat hollow aftertaste.

Mouthfeel - Medium-bodied with a low, bubbly bite. Smooth, creamy texture before a lightly dry finish.

Overall - Nice brew, but hampered a bit by nitro's flavor killing nature. Of course nitro also lends a nice creaminess. Double-edged sword, that nitro.