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
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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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Jack's Abby Framinghammer - Barrel Aged Peanut Butter and Jelly (by Jack's Abby Brewing):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
26/VIII/17 - 50cl / 1Pt. 0.9Fl. Oz. bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: 20/V/17 (2017-1328) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small aery irregular head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, sweet, vanilla notes, lots of chocolate, sugary, caramel, touch of crème brûlée. Not getting peanuts though. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, sugary, lots of vanilla, malty, some chocolate. Aftertaste: sweet, sugary, chocolate, bit hoppy, bourbon notes, alcohol, soft roast, vanilla. Decent stuff, not getting much peanut or raspberries though...
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
26/VIII/17 - 50cl / 1Pt. 0.9Fl. Oz. bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: 20/V/17 (2017-1328) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small aery irregular head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, sweet, vanilla notes, lots of chocolate, sugary, caramel, touch of crème brûlée. Not getting peanuts though. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, sugary, lots of vanilla, malty, some chocolate. Aftertaste: sweet, sugary, chocolate, bit hoppy, bourbon notes, alcohol, soft roast, vanilla. Decent stuff, not getting much peanut or raspberries though...
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2017
at 18:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. Dark brown color, decent sized beige head. Aroma is malts, don’t get any bourbon, but there’s a touch of peanut butter. Taste malts, again no bourbon, peanut butter somewhat in there, also don’t get the raspberries. Meh, not a very nice version of this awesome beer imo.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2017
at 10:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at RBSG. Pours a pitch black hue with a medium tan head. A big roast and sweet peanut nose. Clear peanut butter sweetness, bourbon, hot, some big sweet caramel and chocolate. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2017
at 00:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at RBSG. Last of the series.Nutty with some fruity notes. Aftertaste starts to resemble the PB&J sandwich of it’s namesake. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2017
at 00:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle thanks to Steve. Pours out a dark brown topped with a tan head. Nose is jelly fruit sweetness peanut butter chocolate. Taste is more of the raspberry grape jam and the peanut butter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2017
at 00:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Aroma is roasted dark malty. Roasted malty. Lingering dark malty. Roasted malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Apr 2017
at 17:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pours a dark brown black from a bottle, thin khaki head quickly dissipates. Nose of well-roasted peanuts, smells bitter/burnt. Flavor leans more to the other side of the equation, a little jammy fruit, inexplicably followed by some boozy brown sugary bourbon, with no discernible peanut butter to my palate. Okay beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2017
at 21:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[2/2/17] Draught at City Tap House in Boston. Black. Aroma of peanut butter and jelly, some chocolate. Sweet. Medium-bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Feb 2017
at 07:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to AirForceHops: Poured a nice dark brown with tan color head. Aroma is peanut butter and jelly sandwich with roasted malts. Taste is a nice blend of that peanut butter and raspberry jelly, that melds with strong boozy alcohol and smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2015
at 23:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at Brewer’s Fork, 7/30/15.
Deep ebony/mahogany with some oily, dark purple tinges on the surface/edges. Head is pretty non-existent. Clarity is low/opaque.
Oddly enough, not my first PB&J beer, having had FB No Crusts. That one wasn’t bad and this one is even better. Very easygoing nose, which is odd because I found the cofffee and Vanilla versions to be heavily, heavily boozey/hot. Instead, you’ve got some very nearly perfectly done bourbon character. Just the good stuff; spice, vanilla, caramel and a candy-like alcohol note. Light notes of rapsberries dipped in vanilla brandy and crunchy peanut brittle notes. I would never peg this as PB&J blind, which is a very good thing.
Flavor is even better than the aroma....crunchy peanut brittle with some light vanilla and chocolate sweetness emerging in the middle. More of a port barrel-flavor to it, in my mind, though maybe that’s the mix of malt, raspberry and what not. Whatever the case, very drinkable for its size, with a very pleasing raspberry liqueur-like dryness/mild tartness. Soft, supple malt texture and not too sweet, with medium carbonation, fairly tight, engaging. Not boozey, which is always impressive at this high of a level. Would love to get a couple bottles all to myself and try it again.
Deep ebony/mahogany with some oily, dark purple tinges on the surface/edges. Head is pretty non-existent. Clarity is low/opaque.
Oddly enough, not my first PB&J beer, having had FB No Crusts. That one wasn’t bad and this one is even better. Very easygoing nose, which is odd because I found the cofffee and Vanilla versions to be heavily, heavily boozey/hot. Instead, you’ve got some very nearly perfectly done bourbon character. Just the good stuff; spice, vanilla, caramel and a candy-like alcohol note. Light notes of rapsberries dipped in vanilla brandy and crunchy peanut brittle notes. I would never peg this as PB&J blind, which is a very good thing.
Flavor is even better than the aroma....crunchy peanut brittle with some light vanilla and chocolate sweetness emerging in the middle. More of a port barrel-flavor to it, in my mind, though maybe that’s the mix of malt, raspberry and what not. Whatever the case, very drinkable for its size, with a very pleasing raspberry liqueur-like dryness/mild tartness. Soft, supple malt texture and not too sweet, with medium carbonation, fairly tight, engaging. Not boozey, which is always impressive at this high of a level. Would love to get a couple bottles all to myself and try it again.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Aug 2015
at 20:27