Funky Buddha No Crusts

Brewed by Funky Buddha
Style: Brown Ale
Boca Raton, Florida USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Bottle 650 ml, tasted in October last year. Quite a big gusher, lost maybe a quarter of the bottle. Pours muddy brown. Huge aroma of fresh and roasted peanuts (how the hell did they manage to get it like that!). Taste holds the same peanuts, jam, sour cherries. An obvious infection in this beer, makes me think of Jolly Pumpkin. Not at all an unpleasant beer, but I would really like to have it as the brewers intended.

Draft: Poured a blackened brown with a tan colored head. Aroma was similar to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Taste was a mix of peanut butter and malt, there was also a fruitiness reminding me of the sandwich it was designed after.

Pouring at the Saturday afternoon session of EBF. Pours a clear brown with a medium sized beige to tan head. Wheat bread is the first thing that hits me, then dusty peanut butter. The flavor finishes the sandwich, starting off tasting exactly like Welche’s grape jelly. Medium bodied, the peanut butter flavor shows up slows, bringing the taste of bread with it. Remarkable.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy brown color with a medium sized off white head. The aroma was as advertised; roasted peanut butter and berry jelly. Slight tart, but good overall. The flavor is more of the same; peanut butter and jelly. It was amazing that they could get the flavors into a beer. Medium bodied and interesting. Cool label too. A second bottle I opened had some infection unfortunately. It foamed forever open opening. More acidity and tart notes. The peanut butter came through nicely, but the jelly component was soured and distracted some.

Alright a catchy name. Pour is dark and aroma of peanuts. Taste is definitely peanut butter and jelly, sweet, not complex. Alcohol masked well. Worth trying once ! OK if you are into extreme fringed beers, if not stay with an unflavored CRMA !

Bottle from Biggsbowler. My first Funky Buddha beer and my first PB&J inspired brew. I’m not going to bother describing this beer, because if you have ever eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then you know exactly how this beer smells and tastes. It’s actually quite impressive how accurate this beer is. I don’t know how they did, but I’m glad they did. Obviously a little gimmicky and probably something I wouldn’t buy a case of, but even with the strange flavor infusion, it remains balanced, easily drinkable with a medium body and soft carbonation.

Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Poured a clear brown color with a huge frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted sweet nut, grape jelly and soap aroma. Medium body with a bitter texture and lively carbonation. Balanced bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Complex infected brew.

Draft @ Treasure Coast beer fest. Pours dark brown color with tan head. Smells and tastes like peanut butter and grape jelly. I taste crusts in there!!! Medium body with moderate carbonation. These PB&J beers are just too wierd for me, I’m not a big fan.

bottle, thanks to ericandersnavy, amber brown color with that strange green pinto bean or boiled peanut aroma, flavor has some bready nut and toasted grains, fruity grain finish

Thanks to ericandersnavy for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a brownish color with a tan head. The aroma is very nice. I get a lot of peanut butter notes with some grape jelly notes. Someone at the table also said they thought the beer smelled like refried pinto beans, which I could see after using some imagination. The flavor has a lot of peanut butter and hazelnut character to it. I also get a lot of caramel and toffee with some cocoa mixed in. Once again, there is a little bit of jelly character to the flavor. Somewhat surprisingly, this beer definitely reminds me of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. This is what I imagine Short’s was aiming for when they brewed PB&J. If they could ever release a batch that wasn’t infected, maybe I could confirm that.