Great Notion: Peanut Brother

Really enjoyed this one. Huge peanut smell and great peanut butter forward flavor. Biggest gripe with Peanut Butter stouts is they are too artificial tasting or too sweet...this one was great overall IMO. Not overly boozy. Well executed! I'd have it again and again.

 

I got a lot more dark chocolate from this one than I expected.

 

Getting peanut butter flavor into a stout is tricky. Many of the powdered PBs ones have a weird chemically aftertaste, just trying to use peanuts leaves PB barely noticeable. Whatever GN used here turned out really well. I was little worried on the pour that it would be thin tasting, but the lactose filled out the body and flavor nicely.
One of the better PB I've had.

 

Wow. Smooth and creamy, obviously peanut butter, but drying feel and no more sweet than most milk stouts. Strong roast presence and a clean finish.

 

Oh brother! Super solid notes of peanut and chocolate. Well balanced, lots to chew on here. Pretty smooth with a nice roasty finish. Delicious! Two-thirds of the way through. In the home stretch!

 

The peanut butter is upfront and center but is more balanced in the taste. I do like the balance between the peanut butter and chocolate in the taste with chocolate slightly dominating. As I favor chocolate a lot more than PB, the overall impression is pretty good. I especially like the mouthfeel, smooth and creamy.

 

after a long hard day of work i'm gonna need something to take the edge off. that's why there's peanut butter stout. first beer i've ever had by great notion, 16 oz can into a yeti coffee mug, which i figure should be appropriate. bubbled up a nice light brown head of frothy, dissipated quickly. smells like a straight up peanut butter beer. no mistaking it. just like it says on the label. tastes like one too. absolutely delicious. like a peanut butter cup. chocolate, peanut butter, coffee, and the like, commingling for delicious goodness. mouthfeel is rather thick and bubbly, so it's a heavy beer but i don't mind. overall one of the better peanut butter beers i've had.

 

There is always a "that guy" and I am going to be "that guy" about this beer. After reading a thread full of positive comments, I am going to pan this beer. I was pleasantly surprised by PB Fusion so I approached this one in a positive frame of mind. It looks good; it smells good; the opening seconds on the taste buds are good but, then, after the swallow, an unpleasant metallic, almost medicinal flavor overwhelms. Wine drinkers swirl and spit - perhaps if I did that I would like this much better than I did.

 

L: Black with thick coffee head
S: Sweet peanut butter and chocolate
T: Creamy sweet chocolate and peanut butter. Warm alcohol. Very rich and satisfying.
F: Thick and creamy. Full body.
O: Like chocolate mousse. Sweet creamy and rich but had enough bitterness at the end to cut the sweetness. Back in my young stupid days, I'd probably drink a bunch of cans of this all at once.

 

High tier cocoa and peanut infused stout that works best as a dessert beer. Very sweet and best to food pair with sugary peanut laden cookies or bars.