Mother Earth Brew Company Sin Tax

Sin Tax

 

Mother Earth Brew Company in Vista, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.19
ABV: 8.1% IBU: 55 Ticks: 83
Imperial Peanut Butter Stout. Don’t let it fool you. This is an imperial stout first and foremost. Deep dark malts lend espresso notes and British crystal malts contribute the perfect toffee and caramel flavor. Despite the dry finish there is a wonderful molasses character compliments of brown cane sugar, and just enough residual sugar to finish full-bodied but never cloying. The peanut butter is simply featured to augment what is already there…a fantastic example of a legendary beer style.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can. Very dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is dark roasted grains and coffee. Taste is kind of sweet. Coffee, nutty and roasted grains.

Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 05:03


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from a shop near San Diego. Nose: peanut butter candy, wow, that's it. Flavor is sweet, indeed brown sugary, moderate roast notes, mid complexity. Slightly artificial peanut flavor is in the fore. A bit crazy. Tastes better than it smells.

Tried from Can on 24 Dec 2023 at 05:53


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks Yoav. Very dark brown to black. Chocolate, peanut butter, sweet, bitterish touch in the finish.

Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2021 at 15:23


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Dark brown, smaller, creamy offwhite head, lasting. Quite noticeable peanutbutter nose, some chocolate, slight vanilla. Medium bitterness, somewhat roasted, some chocolate and sweetness. Peanutbutter aftertaste. Medium full body, some alcohol warmth.

Tried from Can on 09 Feb 2021 at 19:37


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Very dark brown with thin head. Aroma is very artificially sweet. Flavour is also too sweet. It's like a Ferrero Rocher with tobacco and dark bitter chocolate. Love and hate in the same mouthful.

Tried on 04 Sep 2020 at 18:37


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

11/VII/20 - 12Fl. Oz. can @ home, BB: n/a, canned: I/23/20 (2020-629) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the can!

Clear dark brown to black beer, big creamy very dense beige head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots and lots of peanuts, peanut powder, very nutty, some pecan, maple syrup, nice roast, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: soft roast, maple, caramel, soft bitterness, more peanut powder, soft sugary touch, caramel, some maple, decent one!

Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2020 at 20:20


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Erdnussbutter ist eher schwer auszumachen, dennoch ein sehr angenehmes, süffiges Imperial Stout. Meine sogar vereinzelt Fruchtnoten auszumachen, wie eine Mangoschoko-Creme. Passt.

Tried on 13 Jun 2020 at 17:44


7

Genesis date 01/23/2020. With the description I was expecting something heavier and more intense. What it is, is a mid strength stout, with some peanut added to it. Quite a bit of strong coffee flavours, bit of roast, and some salty peanut. A bit thin.

Tried from Can from Beerdome on 29 May 2020 at 22:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

18-01-20 // bottle shared with the local crew. Unfortunately disappointing. Very parfumy nose. Floral. Too light bodied. Not much chocolate peanut butter. Too weak body to support the aromas. --- Beer merged from original tick of Sin-Tax Imperial Peanut Butter Stout on 18 Jan 2020 at 22:51 - Score: 6. Original review text: Unfortunately disappointing. Very parfumy nose. Floral. Too light bodied. Not much chocolate peanut butter. Too weak body to support the aromas.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2020 at 19:46


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5

Imperial stout from this established Californian brewery, from tap at BeerTemple in Amsterdam. Membrane-lacing, dense, regularly shaped, creamy, pale greyish beige head, black robe with lightly hazy and very thin mahogany edge. Aroma of coffee powder in a very vivid and convincing way, burnt toast, bonfire, black chocolate, leather, toasted walnuts, charred steak, peanut. Restrained dried fig-like sweetness in the onset with a light beef jerky-like umami factor at the edges, while the coffee effect is announced early on; sharply fizzing carbonation (too much so for the style), but still a full, smooth, oily body. Nutty and toasted bread-like maltiness with a very coffee-flavoured roasted bitterness, even with retronasal black coffee effects; long, dry, nutty and coffeeish finish with a glow of whisky-like alcohol, but altogether well hidden. The peanut butter has been applied quite subtly and appears only in the very end, only to disappear again quickly; it becomes a bit more obvious when the beer warms up, but even then remains fairly subtle. This is not a bad thing at all, of course, because the bottom line here is that this is a very decent, old school U.S. strong stout (at the lower end of the ABV spectrum), one I enjoyed very much, even if it was overcarbonated for this type of beer.

Tried from Draft on 30 Dec 2019 at 02:36