Funky Buddha No Crusts
"It’s peanut butter jelly time!"
An ale that tastes and smells just like the iconic sandwich! Starting with the intense aroma of creamy peanut butter mingling with mixed berry jam, No Crusts Peanut Butter & Jelly Brown Ale descends into waves of flavor memory recalling those same ingredients. The overall flavor and aroma is so evocative, it’s just like mom used to make! Just ask her to cut the crusts off!
Warning: Contains peanuts!
An ale that tastes and smells just like the iconic sandwich! Starting with the intense aroma of creamy peanut butter mingling with mixed berry jam, No Crusts Peanut Butter & Jelly Brown Ale descends into waves of flavor memory recalling those same ingredients. The overall flavor and aroma is so evocative, it’s just like mom used to make! Just ask her to cut the crusts off!
Warning: Contains peanuts!
3.7
185 reviews
Oakland Park, United States
Community reviews
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 4/27/2018. Pours lightly hazy deep ruby red/brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge juicy/lightly tart/tangy raspberries, strawberry, fruit jam, peanut butter, brown sugar, brown bread crust, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of caramel, cocoa, herbal, floral, grass, and toasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with awesome balance and complexity of berries, peanut butter, dark/bready/light roasted malt, and light earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of big juicy/lightly tart/tangy raspberries, strawberry, fruit jam, peanut butter, brown sugar, brown bread crust, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of caramel, cocoa, herbal, floral, grass, and toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, grassy, spicy hop; roast bitterness; and slight berry tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy raspberries, strawberry, fruit jam, peanut butter, brown sugar, brown bread crust, herbal, floral, grass, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of berries, peanut butter, dark/bready/light roasted malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. minimal warming alcohol for 6.4%. Overall this is an awesome fruited American brown ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of berries, peanut butter, dark/bready/light roasted malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Would have preferred it to be less bitter/drying. Aromas were far more promising, but this was still spot on stuff. Awesome balance of jammy berries, peanut butter, and malt complexity; with solid earthy hop balance. Very authentic feeling flavors. Nails the flavor profile of a sandwich. A highly enjoyable offering, and well made experimental brown ale as expected. Spot on base style example.
On tap at Kickbacks, pours a deep dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma and flavour are both exactly like jam and peanut butter, with a toasted malt base. Nice incorporation of the adjuncts. I like it.
12 ounce bottle - $4.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours a rich, dark brown body with a medium-thin, receding, light beige head.
Smell: Bready brown ale, some roastiness to it and perhaps a fleeting hint of toffee. Really, it's just enough scaffolding to support the flavorings. A decent creamy peanut butter note to it with some fruitiness which, for me, leans towards a raspberry jelly scent.
Taste: The breadiness and its roastiness mingled with a tangy raspberry taste. Medium sweetness. A nutty, toasty quality from the brown ale base adjoins the lightly roasty, chopped peanuts. The light-leaning carbonation allows the flavors to sit and linger through the sweetish finish whichs gives you a finally zip of tart raspberry.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-light carbonation.
Overall: A light, simple, straightforward brown ale dosed with peanuts and a fruit addition that's a bit on the pricey side.
Pours clear sepia with a thick and lasting buff head. Aroma presents, yep, grape jelly and peanut butter tones, with a bready undernote. Flavor is indeed a liquid peanut butter and jelly sandwich - sweet grape jelly, peanuts, plus malty and bready notes and more than just a touch of bitter piney hops. Texture offers fair body and good fizz. Peanut butter jelly time indeed!
12 ounce bottle. Pours a cloudy brown with an average beige head. Aroma and taste of peanut butter and jelly. Even a bit of fruit. Surprised how much I enjoyed this.
Crowler from Growler Country. Pours a chestnut color with ruby highlights. The aroma is strong peanut butter plus a hint of strawberry. The flavor starts with the roasted peanuts but finishes with fruitiness. Really cool beer and well brewed.
Peanut, boysenberry aroma. Clear brown, thick tan head. Peanut, grape, bread, pecan. Light body, easy carbonation.
This not what your dad would brew in the basement. It has hints of peanut butter and jelly. Sounds crazy but was very good
$3.95 bottle, Wine Warehouse. Pours murky brown with a small beige head. Aroma is salted peanuts, berries (somewhat candied). Well damn, it does taste like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. salty crunchy peanut butter and raspberry/blackberry jam. Some bread too (real or imagined?). I was always a strawberry jam kid, so I might like it better with strawberry, but this is good.
5/23/18 - Tallahassee, FL - Beer Stop - 12 oz bottle. Dark brown pour, thinner than expected, tight bone-colored head that sticks around a while. Aroma of jelly and store brand peanut butter. Interesting flavor, some raspberry sourness, a bit of topsoil, some generic peanut butter flavor, Thick enough mouthfeel. Decent novelty.
Earlier Rating: 4/26/2018 Total Score: 1.6
No aroma. Caramel color. Horribly sweet. Cherry flavor. Not recommended
I swear I still taste the crusts like my mom sold me out for lunch. Crisp peanut aroma with a little roast. Dark mahogany pour. Crisp finish with a note of sweetness and some esters. Fairly thin on the basic brown ale aroma besides the peanut butter gimmick. Tap at brewery.
On tap at Funky Buddha Brewery.
Clear brown beer with a little bit of red tone.
A lot of lacing stays on the glass.
Nose of red berries, peanut butter and bread.
Taste is almost the same with a hint of coffe and malt.
From notes, tasted at Great American Beer Festival 2017. Will add more notes if I get to try this again. Wow this was really good!
Intense peanut, caramel, dark, sweet, toasted malts. Clear brown, small, creamy, beige head. Light sweet. Jelly, grapes, more peanut, dark malts, soft carbonation, medium bodied. Very nice, intense aroma. Keg at GABF17, Denver.
Sampled at GABF 2017 in Denver, CO. This was cool to try - it does smell and taste like a PB&J. Fun beer, and very tasty.
03.05.2014, tap @ CBC:
Small creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish fruity, red berries, heather, hay, potatoes, soil, grass, caramel, peanuts, vegetables. Taste is slightly sour-ish fruity, raspberries, potatoes, peanuts, caramel malts, grass, berry skin, old potato cellar, hay, paper. Medium bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Fair enough, strange.
EBF 2017. Pours a pretty clear medium brown with a small white head that leaves pretty nice lacing. Nose is of something that burnt, bread crust in fact, weird. Taste is of chocolate spread, whole wheat bread, just fake. Moderately bitter. Body and carbonation are medium and it feels a bit sticky. Overall a weird one that doesn’t bring all that much enjoyment to me. Just fake like (almost) all the FB brews I’ve had so far.
on tap at extreme beer fest 2017, boston. unclear medium dark brown, copper-orange with a small light beige cap offering some retention and lacing. outrageous peanut and raspberry aroma, burnt/roasted peanuts, sweet white loaf, brown caramelized maltiness, not much else, really. moderately carbonation, medium body - oily and kind of heavy; sweet jammy finish. another ridiculous offering from FB, although mimicking exactly peanut butter and jelly.
Draft at EBF 2017. How to rate this beer? If I think of it as a brown ale (or really any ale), it is way off the mark. It smells like peanut butter and chocolate and then tastes like raspberry jam. But, I can’t help being impressed by the innovation and wacky creativity that went into this. It really tastes like a PB&J sandwich, and while that may make other people ding points, I was pleasantly surprised.
On tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014. This is a soft clouded deep amber almost a little brown looking one with a nice quickly sidesticking and lacing beige head. It smells like soft fruits, fruity fresh raspberries and strawberry jam. Some wood also in here. It tastes quite nice. Soft wood dry with some strong tartness I’m having problems identifying. A blend of sour cherries and raspberries? Almost a little astringent. Lots of raspberries toward the finish with that little sour tone making it interesting. Quite decent this. A fruity one and really different! 03.05.2014
Sampled at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014. Session 4. Pours clear amber with a creamy, white head. Tasty, with notes of berries, peanuts. Pretty good balance, moderately sweet. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with more fruity character and impressions of peanut butter. Novel. Not bad.
An amber beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is acidic with notes of malt, brettanomyces, lemons, leading to a tart finish.
Like most funky Buddha offerings, this one is overly sweet but it's a fun beer otherwise.
Draft at the brewery. Pours clear copper brown with a fizzy beige head. Tastes like sweet chocolate, peanut butter, grape and strawberry jelly, and roasted chocolate malt. Light/medium body and low carbonation. Smells like rich peanut butter, grape jelly, and some roasted chocolate malt.
Brown with almost no head. Edges are golden to Amber. Aroma is absolute ridiculous it’s not butter and jelly sandwich, my childhood in a glass. Roasted peanuts along with a little bit saltiness, like dry roasted, some jellies, like strawberry or raspberry, and a toasty grainy bread-like. It’s really spectacular that all the aromas are so noticeable. Flavor is a little more muddled, some caramel and light chocolates, berries and nutty peanuts, smooth, sweet malts. Moderate to fuller sweetness. Light Cocoa flavors maybe. It’s really impressive. 21112015
Sampled at Pinocchio’s. Amber tan pour with nice head. Okay. It smells like peanut butter. Tastes like a moderate brown ale - caramel malts, dry on the tongue - infused with peanut butter. Okay as a gimmick, but really too odd to be worth much of anything.
On tap at Funky Buddha poured a clear reddish brown with a small lingering tan head. Aromas of peanut butter, jelly and light bread. Palate was light bodied and smooth. Flavors of peanut butter, jelly and light bread with a smooth lingering PB&J finish.
Sample at EBF. Pours light brown with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, peanut butter. Taste is caramel, peanut butter, raspberry jam. A bit thin, but it does replicate a pb&j pretty well.
Tasted from draft. Pours a clear amber with off white head. Honestly smells like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You get nice nutty and fruity aroma. Taste is also just like a PB&J. Crazy. Peanut butter flavor with some fruity berry notes. Some earthy and caramel flavor as well. Really interesting and great tasting beer.