Victory at Sea - Peanut Butter
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.32
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Smooth peanut butter meets dark coffee in this roasty porter. This Peanut Butter Victory at Sea is a nutty version of our popular imperial porter. We took our trademark robust porter brewed with Caffè Calabria coffee and vanilla and added peanut butter, adding another level to this roasty, flavorful beer.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Duckworths Uptown. Black with medium beige head. Aroma is artificial peanuts, medium body, medium carbonation, and thick small-bubble lacing. Taste is artificial peanuts and coffee.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2018
at 23:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Smiths. Pours black. Coffee, cherry, blackcurrant, vanilla, bit of nutty stuff, bit of raw hot sugary booze. Medium body. Not for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Dec 2018
at 08:44
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2018
at 16:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
220ml on tap at Mind cafe. Thin tan head. Clear black pour. Hint of peanut butter. A bit boozy. Chocolate in the aftertaste. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2018
at 11:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 10/23/2017. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, peanut butter, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, toffee, fudge, brown sugar, and toasted dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of molasses, smoke, char, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, coffee, vanilla, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, peanut butter, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, toffee, fudge, brown sugar, and toasted dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of molasses, smoke, char, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy/peppery hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, peanut butter, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, toffee, fudge, brown sugar, toasted dark/brown bread, light molasses/smoke/char, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, coffee, vanilla, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and minimal acrid/astringent flavors after finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 10% after the finish. Overall this is an awesome flavored imperial porter style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, coffee, vanilla, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Definitely less bitter/drying than the coconut/peppermint were; but I felt similarly about it. Not as impressive as the base/BA version as expected. Awesome balance of rich malts, PB, coffee, and vanilla; with solid earthy hop balance against sweetness. A really enjoyable offering, not overwhelming on any aspect. Glad I aged it first.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2018
at 01:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brown bottle, 650 ml, purchased at Binny's - Lincoln Park, savoured on July 6 2018; eye: dark brown, semi-opaque, minuscule ring of brown head, slight lacing; nose: chocolate, nuts, light alcohol, slight roasting; mouth: chocolate, nuts, alcohol, light alcohol warmth, light mineral, alcohol acridness, finale in chocolate with presence of alcohol, full body, average carbonation, lightly sweet, alcoholic texture; overall: fine
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 650 ml, 10 %, achetée chez Binny's - Lincoln Park, savourée le 6 juillet 2018; œil : brun foncé, semi-opaque, minuscule anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : chocolat, noix, léger alcool, très léger torréfaction; bouche : chocolat, noix, alcool, léger chaleur d'alcool, léger minéral, âcreté d'alcool, finale en chocolat avec présence d'alcool, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture alcoolique; en résumé : bien
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 650 ml, 10 %, achetée chez Binny's - Lincoln Park, savourée le 6 juillet 2018; œil : brun foncé, semi-opaque, minuscule anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : chocolat, noix, léger alcool, très léger torréfaction; bouche : chocolat, noix, alcool, léger chaleur d'alcool, léger minéral, âcreté d'alcool, finale en chocolat avec présence d'alcool, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture alcoolique; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2018
at 22:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at CBH2018, Helsinki. Color is very dark brown with small brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Peanut, chocolate, some coffee and roasted malts. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jul 2018
at 14:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Craft Beer Helsinki 2018. Smooth, roasty and slightly sweetish with some dark chocolate, coffee, hints of peanut butter, toffee and earthiness. Quite balanced and luckily the peanut butter notes are quite subtle.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2018
at 14:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours very dark brown with hues of red, small head of foam, good lacing for having so little foam.
Smells of roasted malt, peanut butter, anise, some lactose.
Taste has tasty peanut butter, roasted malt, bit of anise, some alcohol.
Close to full bodied, smooth, little warming after the swallow.
I am enjoying it.
Smells of roasted malt, peanut butter, anise, some lactose.
Taste has tasty peanut butter, roasted malt, bit of anise, some alcohol.
Close to full bodied, smooth, little warming after the swallow.
I am enjoying it.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2018
at 22:49
5.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 10
Overall 3
Fat kapitelhuset Växjö. I doften känns Nötter och kaffe i god blandning. I munnen Oj oj vanilj kommer faktiskt omedelbart sen kaffe och lite nötter. Eftersmak torrt av kaffe och nötter. Sen kaffe kaffe kaffe kaffe. Tyvär kan denna öl kallas obalanserad eller möjligtvis en kaffe öl.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2018
at 14:05