CEO Stout: Peanut Butter

Keg at the brewery. Clear dark brown, copper highlights, thin fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of nutty notes, roasted malt, chocolate. Taste is nuts, salt, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, mild fruits. Medium bodied. Hell yeah! A peanut butter beer that doesn’t taste unnatural crap!

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 11/23/2015. Pours pitch black color with a 2 finger fairly dense tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, caramel, toasted dark bread, light smoke/char, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and coffee/peanut butter notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, caramel, toasted dark bread, light smoke/char, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Moderate amount of herbal/roasted coffee bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, toasted dark bread, light smoke/char, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and coffee/peanut butter flavors; with a great roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice peanut butter coffee stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted/bready malt and coffee/peanut butter flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. The peanut butter flavors weren’t too big, but still had really nice overall balance with the base beer flavor. A very enjoyable offering.