8

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

(500ml bottle from 4th and 7, Toronto) Pours deep brown with a small dark tan cap and a litle lace. Aroma is lots of crushed fresh peanuts dominating proceedings, some soft semi-sweet chocolate and vanilla florals, sweet caramelized sugars and a bare hint of roast. Flavour is very sweet and burnt sugar-heavy, malts are not heavily roasted and have a lot of sweet dark fruit and jam character, ample crushed peanut dusty earthiness for sure, chocolate is pretty restrained, some milky creamy vanilla vibes in the back, peanut and dark fruit malts are dominant throughout the sip though. Finish remains sweet, booze largely hidden. Light to medium-bodied, somewhat creamy. Nice peanut character but I didn't love the sweet fruity sugars; a richer, more choc-heavy malt body would have made it more peanut butter cup for me. Still a nice super-sweet pastry rendition.