Panther Creek "Peanut Butter Thrilla" Milk Stout

Panther Creek is a stones throw away from my house; these guys are in the suburbs of Nashville, and they don't distribute outside the county. There aren't going to be a whole lot of other reviews of this beer, I suspect, unless some of the MTSU students get a hold of some and start to flood one of the other beer sites with their impressions. And they're welcome to do it.

It's a milk stout. Of course it's black. What did you expect from a milk stout? The bubbles are also very tiny, and they are light tan. Pretty much everything about this beer screams, "I am a milk stout!" The aroma, however, is definitely very peanut butter. The peanut butter mixes with a sweet, sweet malt to make a relatively luxurious aroma that is creamy and smooth. I was already in the mood for a milk stout, and this aroma is already improving that mood.

First sip is everything I imagined and more. The peanut butter is pronounced, and the sweetness of the lactose sugars shoves this whole beer into the desert beer realm. It was only a sip, but it was so smooth and creamy that it easily punches at the weight class of a Tailgate peanut butter stout or even higher. But, that's only from a sip. As we all know, a sip doesn't give you the full impression of the beer.

Tip-in is peanut butter, sweet, creamy, malt, and smoked wood. The middle gets very laid-back, and the peanut butter becomes a smooth layer on top of the partially scorched skin of an over done toasted marshmallow while a smooth, sweet malt with toasted grains surges along the tongue. The finish is a little bitterness and a little dryness that eventually evolves into a sweet vanilla trail off.

Bottom Line: I have no idea how someone made this in my own backyard.

4.75/5