UPDATED: DEC 8, 2021 Bottle sample at a tasting. Opaque black with brownish head. The aroma has notes of wafer, peanut butter, cinnamon, chocolate, alcohol, wood. The flavor is sweet, mild bitter and mild sour with lots of chocolate, wafer, cinnamon, alcohol, peanut butter, oxidized, wood. Medium to full-bodied.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2021 Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Black, tan foam. Lots of chocolate, fudge, cocoa, waffle, plums, vanilla, whiskey, cinnamon, peanut butter, sweetish-sourish, medium-bodied.

UPDATED: SEP 27, 2021 Bottle at a tasting. Black, beige head. Aroma of soy sauce, peanut butter, chocolate. Sweet, peanuts, vanilla, oak, umami, chocolate, tart plums. Full-bodied, oily. Great sipper, not too heavy.

UPDATED: AUG 19, 2021 0,5l from bottle at Sanders, shared by me. Bottled 03/06/2020. Black color, small coffee colored head. Smells peanut butter, vanilla, nutty, cinnamon, spices, very nice smell, very peanut butter forward. Full body, light carbonation. Tastes peanut butter, earthy, peppery, vanilla, jammy, stone fruits, peaches, spices, some oak, whisky. Finishes dry with jammy notes, stone fruits and spices. Bit weird one, almost a tad on the sour side. Quite drinkable, but expected a bit more 8,4,7,3,15

UPDATED: AUG 18, 2021 500 ml bottle, bottled 03/06/20, shared by Werckmeister, thanks! Black body, with a small, creamy, dark beige head. Aroma with lots of peanut butter, chocolate, caramel, moderate whiskey barrel. Tastes of whiskey barrel, tobacco, chocolate, moderate peanut butter, dark fruits. Medium, quite creamy moutfheel, with a moderate carbonation. Finishes moderate roasty, medium sweet, spicy, with moderate whiskey barrel, chocolate, dark fruits. Very nice. Lovely nose, with lots of peanut butter, while the taste has more whiskey and fruit notes. Not oustanding, but a comfortable, not too heavy sipper. Score: 8 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 15

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2021 Bottle at home. Black ale, creamy beige head. Acidic vegetable chili note which is a tat unpleasant, vanilla, peanut, mocha, praline, cinnamon. Vanilla peanut linger. Good body, low carbonation.

UPDATED: OCT 19, 2020 Bottle with KBL. Peanut butter, chocolate, grape juice nose. Flavor much like a JB & J sandwich with chocolate. Rich flavors, sweet but not crazily so, body a bit thin.

UPDATED: OCT 18, 2020 Belching Beaver Viva La Beaver BA Mexican Chocolate Peanut Butter Imperial Milk Stout 12.5% Nice ruby black color flash in the pan purplish tan foam that vanished fast. First whiff gave BA bourbon then nutty sweet peanut with milk Chocolate. Medium to full bodied with lots of balanced sweet peanut butter chocolate. At first colder there was no hint of the high ABV but on warming the boozy bite reared it’s head. All in all by far the best I’ve had from Belching Beaver. I didn’t get rye or anything Mexican from it though.

UPDATED: AUG 15, 2020 From a 650ml(?) bottle on 15/8/2020 (shared with Butz). Pours a deep brown with a medium head. Having soon after a standard Viva La Beaver so the comparison is fresh. The nose is powerful - heaps of chocolate, peanut butter and cinnamon, with a fair bit of whisky and oak in the background. The flavour is a rinse and repeat of the nose. Intense sweet milk chocolate and peanut butter, lots of cinnamon and dash of whisky. The mouthfeel is slick and a touch syrupy and the carbonation moderate. Very easy drinking for 12.5%, and has a lot of the standard Viva, just a bit less peanuts and a bit more cinnamon, with the addition of the barrel aged character. A truly excellent dessert beer but I'd take the standard version over it.

UPDATED: MAY 17, 2020 Pours black with a two finger, tan head. Aroma is cocoa, peanut butter, roast and whiskey. Taste is chocolate and brown sugar, moving to peanut butter, roast and wood. Finish is chocolate, peanut butter, whiskey and wood. Excellent stout.