Sweet Baby Java
DuClaw Brewing Company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.15
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Our single bestselling beer of all time, Sweet Baby Jesus! Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter, Hop Gunned with cold-steeped, whole bean espresso to infuse it’s iconic, lightly sweet chocolate and peanut butter flavor and aroma with warm notes of coffee… without any additional bitterness! One sip of Sweet Baby Java and you’ll wonder, “Where has this bean all my life?”
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Village Beer Merchant. Coffee, chocolate, peanut butter, roasted malts. It's all there, but not quite a balanced composition.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2019
at 19:00
5/10
All the synthetics from sweet baby Jesus are destroyed by coffee ground stuffs. Bitter coffee kills the synthetics! Ehhhhh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2019
at 22:28
8.5/10
Bang on peanut butter flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2018
at 18:50
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle: Poured a Black brown with tan ring head. Aroma is chocolate, peanut butter, and espresso. Taste is sweet pb and chocolate soft coffee bean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2018
at 16:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Seems like the only thing Duclaw can do right these days is Baby Jesus spinoffs. Peanut butter and coffee. Lots of roast. Well integrated stuff. Pours black with good head and lacing. Bittersweet finish. Tap at airport.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2018
at 21:37
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle, cold. Pour is darker coffee, aroma is sweet chocolatey and maybe mild PB. Alabaster head. Taste is big strong sweet smooth mouth coating bitter bullshit. Its 6% but it feels like 7+. I can't remember the original version, so I cant tell if the coffee makes any difference, mostly dark baking chocolate bitter. Quite an impact, yet not impressed, a little too over the top for this cheap lager lover.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2018
at 20:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(Bottle) clear, bright. very dark brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of peanut butter, milk chocolate; balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2018
at 23:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Deep brown/black with a creamy off-white head. Nutty, sweet malt, chocolate, mild coffee, earth. Medium body. Sweet, nutty finish. I was a little surprised at how light the coffee was. Still, solid PB porter.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2018
at 02:46
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Well, this is a good beer in terms of how its built, but I'm just not sure its for me. The nose was really nice, first chocolate, then coffee, and then a hint of peanut butter. But despite how "nice" that was, is that what I want my beer to smell like? Then in the taste, much drier than expected, with soft malt, and very heavy on the peanut butter flavors, with just a wee hint of coffee and chocolate in the background (more chocolate than coffee). Light bitterness at finish, semi-dry. It all blends well, and doesn't taste bad at all, but again, do I want these flavors in a beer? I don't think I do. As with all my ratings, my score reflects my own personal feeling about the beer, not to any style, and should be thought of as reflecting the likelihood I would ever drink this again.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2018
at 13:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Really nice beer, the coffee and peanut butter are both medium in strength, smooth drinking great beer. Slightly too bitter for the style perhaps. 2017 advent cal.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2017
at 12:42