Peanut Butter Jelly Time Ale (Raspberry)
Catawba Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Faubourg Brewing Co.Brown Ale Regular
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Score
6.40
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Peanut Butter Jelly Time Ale Think back to simpler times - when your mom sent you off to school with a PB&J sandwich, and by noon the flavors had all melded into pure comfort food. Well, we recreated that goodness in a beer! This light brown ale is brewed from five different grains, then aged for weeks on raspberries and roasted peanuts. Take a sip, let flavors mingle on your palate, and enjoy our PB&J in a glass.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Cloudy, light brown with an ever so faint pink hue that’s nearly visible. Medium head. Aroma and flavor is exactly like the name. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Taste like peanut butter, jelly and bread. Actually not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:12
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Amber pour with a thick white foam. Aroma of tart berries. Flavor is dominated by raspberry, but with an unripe fruit bitterness. Also an earthy and nutty subtle undertone aroma and taste under the berries. Would be much better with more sweetness from the fruit like true pb&j.
Tried
on 11 May 2018
at 02:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hmm, to much jelly and not enough peanut butter. This beer’s too sweet, can barely pick up on the Brown ale qualities.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Apr 2017
at 22:14
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
So if you buy a peanut butter and jelly beer, I guess you can’t be shocked when your pint tastes exactly like a damned peanut butter and jelly sandwich, right? Brings up the old question: how do you rate a beer that fits its description well but you still don’t really like? Hard to feel fair in such a scenario: yes, Catawba Peanut Butter Jelly Time fits the name, offering up a solid dose of peanuts in the nose, maybe a little fruit mixed in as well. And the taste is right in line with the title: peanut butter and raspberry, semisweet and surprisingly restrained. If peanut butter and jelly beer is your thing, then Catawba’s got your cherry ’57 Chevy. But If you’re like me--curious and now a bit regretful--eh. Tastes like peanuts. Tastes like jelly. Doesn’t taste much like beer. 3 seems about right.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2017
at 20:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a murky brown with a small white head. Aroma is a nice fresh raspberry. I don’t get much of the peanuts but the strong raspberry makes up for it. Flavor is more of the peanuts and the raspberry is barly noticeable. For a gimmick beer this is fine. The ingredients don’t all come together at the same time but separately it’s as advertised. Raspberry aroma with a peanut flavor.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 15:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft during RBWG 2014 - Asheville. Cheers! Pours clear gold with a foamy, white head. Novel beer - definitely evocative of a raspberry PB&J, actually. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Moderately sweet on the finish, with wholegrain bread, raspberry jam. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2015
at 13:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a murky orange-amber color with a thin and fluffy white head that diminishes gradually to a wispy film. Sticky small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted nuts, malt and fruit. Light to medium body with flavors of peanut butter, roast malt and mildly tart berries. The finish is roasty with a nutty and malty aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Dec 2015
at 21:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at RBWG grand tasting! I’m not generally a fan of gimmicky beers. The aroma had more peanut butter than jelly. The taste had more jelly than peanut butter. So there.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Aug 2014
at 15:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at RBWG 2014 grand tasting, thanks! Pours a hazy light amber with a light brown head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a nice peanut note with a light fruit and grain backing. Flavor hits the PB&J right on with rich peanut butter up front with a jam fruit finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Feb 2014
at 18:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg on the RBWG bus
Cloudy golden with a big off-white head and good lacing. Aroma of toasted malts and nutty. Flavor is nutty and caramel
Decent
Cloudy golden with a big off-white head and good lacing. Aroma of toasted malts and nutty. Flavor is nutty and caramel
Decent
Tried
on 17 Feb 2014
at 19:57