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We always love a good experimental brew here at Terrapin, but the salty-sweet combo of peanuts and chocolate has us all salivating a little more than usual. This brew, while smooth and mellow, still manages to challenge your tastebuds. The porter base is dark and smooth, with enough backbone to support the richer chocolate and peanut butter additions. It’s even dry “peanuted” with brewery-boiled green peanuts! Here’s to the candy-loving kid in all of us! (Description provided by company)
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6.70% ABV
Availability Frequency:
year-round
Containers Available:
bottle
Locations Where Available:
Southeast US
Mid-Atlantic
Store/Serve Temperature:
45-54 degrees F
Comments
Disappointing
Terrapin's chocolate peanut butter porter is a very dark brown beer with a tiny beige film of a head. For the dozen or so seconds that the head bubbled away as I looked at it, I got a strong sniff of peanut butter. But the peanut butter faded away as I leaned in to smell from the glass. Once my nose was nearby, I could smell chocolate, coffee, and a smell closer to hazelnut than peanut butter. Taste is mostly stale coffee and dark chocolate wiht a creamy finish. It feels thick on the tongue with a slight nip from the carbonation. Was hoping for better. Rocket Republic's Peanut Butter Porter was much more impressive to me.
Liquid Bliss is a liquid miss
Terrapin Liquid Bliss is a chocolate peanut butter porter. It pours dark and a bit thin-looking, but with a bubbly and frothy head with a decent amount of retention. It smells of cocoa and dark chocolate, as well as a nut flavor I wouldn't necessarily describe as "peanut". It is pleasant though. The flavor has all of the big flavors at the front- your milky dessert flavors. The finish is surprisingly more hoppy and bitter than I expected but not bad. The mouthfeel is, however, expectedly thin. This is why I tend to shy away from porters and stouts. Overall it's not a bad beer. Maybe good once in a while, but I'm sure glad I didn't buy a six-pack.
An A for Effort, At Least
Deep, dark opaque brown almost black. A half finger of a tan head that dissipates a little more quickly than I wanted.
The nose is almost equal parts of peanut butter and dark chocolate/coffee malt aromas. Some alcohol and slightly spicy and floral hop aromas. Good, but the hops feel a little out of place.
The peanut butter is equally strong in the taste, and lingers into the moderately long finish. The malt flavors are fairly sweet - similar to 60% dark chocolate with only moderate bitterness. The earthy hop flavors in the finish do seem a little out of place with the peanut butter and chocolate, but do serve the purpose of reminding you that you drinking a beer.
A slightly disappointing medium light body and moderate carbonation.
An obvious choice for a dessert beer. Whether or not it's for you depends on your appreciation for peanut butter and chocolate and your willingness to combine them with the hop flavors and aromas. I have had flavored beers that are much worse, but I can't decide of this is an interesting experiment or a good beer.
Liquid, certainly. Bliss, not so much...
Liquid Bliss pours a deep, rich, near black brown with a caramel colored head that barely hangs around long enough to mention. Smells lightly of chocolate and malt and nuts. The chocolate and peanut butter do dominate the palette, but there's certainly a hoppy aftertaste that's just plain weird. From the smell and the dominant flavors you'd expect a heavier, almost "chewy" beer, but Terrapin went the other direction with it and made it a much less substantial beer. As a "dessert beer," possibly following a large meal I can see where that might be a desired quality but, to me, it just seemed like something was missing.