Jack's Abby Craft Lagers Framinghammer - Barrel-Aged PB & J

Framinghammer - Barrel-Aged PB & J

 

Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter - Imperial Baltic Winter Out of Production
Score
7.17
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 45 Ticks: 31
Our dark and decadent Baltic porter aged in bourbon barrels with peanut butter and jelly. The lengthy conditioning period in the barrels creates a silky smooth chocolatey mouth feel enhanced by the use of oats and brown sugar. Noticeable sweetness gets balanced by roasted malt and hop bitterness. Additional flavors include bourbon, vanilla, and oak.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at the CBJ tasting, thanks to LKS, 15/11/23. Black topped with a tan head. Nose is dark malts, chocolate, dates, charr, raisins. Taste comprises chocolate shavings, peanut butter, raspberry jelly, mellow roast, perfume. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Okay if a touch tired ... bourbon hardly evident.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2024 at 09:25


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

Bottle shared at Craft Beer Junction - picked up in the US. Pours clear brown with a foamy, tan head. Medium sweet flavour with rounded semi-dark malts, subdued lightly tangy raspberry/generic berries, touches of chocolate, background impressions of toasted nuts. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately warming to finish, nips of chocolate, berries, earth. Nice stuff all around, quite drinkable for the ABV.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2023 at 22:09



7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey. Many thanks. A clear mid brown coloured pour with a a loose tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, woody bourbon, vanilla, jammy fruits. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, fizzy, drying coffee, earthy. Harsh, earthy. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2023 at 19:52


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

15th November 2023
Craft Beer Junction bottle share, thanks to LKS. Almost clear dark brown beer, small tan head. Airy palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Thin dark malts, trace of dark chocolate. A slightly medicinal mid. Decent fruity bourbon on the back end. Not bad, a tad medicinal.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2023 at 19:30


7

Jammy mostly, nice.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2020 at 14:55


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Taster pour on tap at the brewery. Appearance is opaque black with no sparkle, thin ring of beige head with great retention. Aroma is strong jelly. Taste is strong jelly (somewhat medicinal), a little bit of the base porter comes through. Mouthfeel is light bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, the taste is too jelly-dominant, losing the base porter (and I never got the peanut butter).

Tried from Draft on 12 Jul 2019 at 11:11


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

On tap at Jack's Abby, pours black with a tiny tan head. Aroma brings out heavy bourbon upfront, followed by peanut butter, but not really any notice of the raspberries. Flavour reveals an exquisite bourbon barrel character upfront, with just enough peanut butter to make its presence felt. Tastes like freshly emptied bourbon barrels. Delicious stuff.

Tried from Draft on 01 Aug 2018 at 18:08


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

Pours a brownish-black color with a medium khaki head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of bourbon, peanuts, berry and malt. Full-bodied with flavors of bourbon, roasted peanuts, raspberry and malt. The finish is peanut butter and jelly and subtle bourbon. Good beer overall.

Tried on 03 Oct 2017 at 21:29


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

500 ml. bottle shared @ RBBSG17. Black, small mocha head. Nose is easy chocolate, cacao, mocha, sweet sugar, cacao. Taste is easy round, didn’t feel 10+ % ABV, mocha, lovely easy, bourbon is barely there, mocha pralines. Less heavy bodied than you would expect. Mixed feeling here, on the one hand it was a very nice but the bourbon was barely there, there were no raspberries & I failed to pick up on the peanut butter, a real shame, still very nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2017 at 01:46