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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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap @ BOT. Dark brown coloured. Roasted malts, coffee, peanut butter, nutty, fairly bitter. Well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2018
at 09:30
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber picked up at the Co-Op. Very dark brown color with a thick finger of peanut butter colored head. Aroma is big dark roasted malts, hints of burnt roast, dark chocolate, and peanut butter. Smells great. Taste is heavy roast and espresso, with light bittersweet cocoa notes. A light amount of peanut butter, but it clearly comes through. Served a little too cold at first, I really started to enjoy this about halfway through the bottle. At one point I decided this is about the closest a beer can come to being a liquid Snickers bar... if the Snickers bar had dark chocolate and a hint of coffee. Not overly sweet nor overly roasty. I love a good dessert beer and this one does it to near perfection.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2018
at 09:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Boise Co-op. Nothing special to look at, normal enough. Aroma brings the peanut butter and some of the coffee. Taste is a bit stronger, PB, coffee, roast grains, some sweetness. Ends with a stinging bite. Much better than I was prepared for.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2018
at 18:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
tap at JK's in a flight. very good - peanut butter comes through on the finish - very smooth porter. good stuff
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2017
at 19:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at Beer Run. Dark brown, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of peanut butter, chocolate, roast, vanilla, caramel. Taste is roast, cherries, chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla. Medium bodied, hot. Nice.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2017
at 11:38
8/10
Tried
on 25 Dec 2017
at 23:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber from Wine Warehouse. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is chocolate, peanut butter, light coffee. Aroma is not strong. Flavor is salty peanuts, chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, caramel, light vanilla. It's tasty, but it's not blowing me away.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2017
at 20:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber. Aroma is vanilla, peanut butter, cola. Pours black with a one finger tan head with decent retention. Taste is sweet and pretty bitter with some spiciness; flavors of vanilla, peanut butter, chocolate, licorice. Coffee is negligible. It's good, but I think it would be better with less bitterness. A lot of these adjunct stouts and porters are so sweet that they're cloying. This one's on the opposite end, being too bitter. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle, at least for me. Still, it's not bad.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2017
at 22:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Coffee nose, sweet. Cola black, thin head. Coffee dominant. Subtle hint of sarsparilla on the back end. Medium body, easy carbonation. Where's the peanut butter?
Tried
on 22 Nov 2017
at 17:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at McKay's, pours black with a small light brown head. Aroma smells just like peanut butter cups, with cocoa and vanilla. Flavour follows accordingly, with lots of peanut butter upfront, accentuated with a little cocoa and a hint of vanilla. Finishes with heaps of peanut butter. Really good.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2017
at 12:34