This is one beer you can’t pack in the grandkids school lunch! Peanut butter is a definite no go when it comes to school these days.* Back in the 60’s I had a PB & J sandwich in my lunch every day and I don’t remember anyone getting a swelled head or any other body part over it. That was then, this is now. But I know what your thinking, a peanut butter porter sounds unappetizing, not at all appealing, downright gross. OK, I don’t know what you were thinking, but that’s what I was thinking.
A Tasty coffee porter wouldn’t keep me awake at night, and at times a vanilla porter has bean tasty. I’ve had cherry, hazelnut and blackberry porters. I’ve tried pecan pie and pumpkin pie and Nanaimo bar porters, imperial porters, breakfast porters and smoked porters. On tap, out of the can, out of the bottle. Oak aged and Baltics, chocolate shakes and I took a college course in Porter 101. Being such a fun guy I even tried a mushroom porter and quite enjoyed it.** But a peanut butter porter? That’s nuts.
A poster of past pints of porters.
Imperial City has whipped up a PB & Cocoa Milk shake of a porter that is strong enough to carry a Europe bound Diva’s bags. They told me to expect “plenty of dark brown foam head” but the resulting head exceeded all expectations, unfortunately. On the plus side, it did settle fairly quickly. A very cocoa nutty aroma, no really peanut butter on the nose but it sure is a nutty buddy. The taste is very nutty with cocoa and roasted malt with touch of coffee bitters. There is a porter in there somewhere but nothing subtle about this nut fest. It started to mellow out for a swig or two than the nut flavour crescendo was back in full force. So far over the top that it was too far over the top. This combo called for subtle but those calls went unanswered.
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