Beer: PB & Jams
Brewery: Abita Brewing Firm (Abita Springs, LA)
Type: Lager – American
8% ABV / 20 IBU

There shall be folks on each side of this debate, lining as much as argue whether or not you need to slug this straight from the bottle or whether or not you need to pour it right into a glass. They’ll argue whether or not it’s best skilled ice-cold like a cut-rate American lager or warmed to room temperature like a correct pub draft, blind to the truth that each methods are supposed to masks the disappointment of our meaningless existence. They’ll argue about whether or not that is straight ruling or completely sucks, as a result of there’s completely no option to brew a peanut butter and jelly flavored beer with out it being utterly polarizing, so no matter facet you choose boils down as to if you fancy a PB&J and whether or not you’ll be able to abdomen that in your beer.

Credit score Abita for rocketing forth into largely uncharted territory. There are plenty of peanut butter-themed beers—Belching Beaver’s Peanut Butter Milk Stout, DuClaw’s Candy Child Jesus, and about one million others—however nobody noticed a peanut butter and jelly themed lager coming. And never only a lager however an 8% booze-bomb that roughly qualifies as an imperial, a daring selection for a brewery that made its mark with easier-drinking types to beat the Louisiana warmth, you higher assume twice about going too deep right into a six-pack of PB & Jams, as a result of it’s a one-way ticket to hangover metropolis. Make like Bobby Liebling and be forewarned!

As for the way it stacks up as a peanut butter and jelly beer, we’re neither within the “love” or “detest” camps. It’s fairly… okay. The nostril is super-mellow, with just a little little bit of creamy peanut butter and stronger hints of butterscotch. The peanut butter taste is strongest at first sip and slowly turns into stronger because it reaches room temperature; the jamminess and berry taste is all within the end. The flavour is consistent with plenty of stunt beers and positively will get much less enjoyable the deeper you get into the six-pack. But it surely additionally sports activities a reasonably clear end for a beer that includes extracts, so it’s a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of pastry stouts and smoothie sours. Tastes high-quality, much less filling, or one thing like that.

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