Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate Peanut Butter and Banana Ale

A Collision of Crazies

Rogue Ales has again collided with Voodoo Doughnut to create Chocolate, Banana & Peanut Butter Ale! This unique artisan creation contains a baker’s dozen ingredients including chocolate, banana and peanut butter to match Voodoo’s "Memphis Mafia" doughnut- a nod to Elvis’ entourage.
2-Row, C-150, C-175, Carafoam Special II & Chocolate Malts; Rogue Farms Revolution & Independent Hops; Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana; Pacman Yeast and Free Range Coastal Water.

2.8

332 reviews

Newport, United States

Community reviews

2.0 A dark brown color with a small tan head. Aroma was a strange combination of banana, chocolate and some peanut, not the aroma I was expecting. Taste was bad for me. I did not get the banana or peanut or chocolate taste. Not for me.

2.9 750ml bottle in conical pint glass. Opaque brown-black appearance with thin head. Bubblegum nose, smells almost exactly like the strawberry freeze-dried astronaut food. Taste of thin peanut butter, artificial banana and sugar. Bland sugary aftertaste. Interesting to try, but would not buy again.

3.2 Bottle @ RG . Dark brown. with thin head. Play-doh with some nuttiness. Very sweet tasting and chocolaety.

3.4 Bottle. Opaque brown color, thin tan head. Taste of thin peanut butter cups. Taste is roasty and very nutty. Interesting.

3.0 It smells better than it tastes, but overall it's not too shabby. The banana comes through the strongest, but the peanut butter is faint at best. I would say this is a decent dessert beer, as it gives you flavor and sweetness, but you can't drink more than 1 or 2. My one knock is that the flavors do not mix perfectly, so it tastes a bit muddled.

3.1 Bottle: Dark Brown color with beige thick head. Aroma is sweet, dark chocolate & peanut. Taste is thin, body is light, some chocolate faint banana taste. Food Pairing: Donut of course.

2.4 bottle @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Clear brown, brown head cover, dots of lace. Aroma of chocolate with an overtone of banana and strawberry. Taste is all of the above, but in a watery base, which takes a lot away from the pleasure. Alcohol warm seals it well enough, but there isn’t enough to seal the deal. Not a keeper.

3.6 THOUGHTS: Mostly chocolate, but the other stuff was there, but it didn’t really live up to the promise of the name and the crazy bottle. Decent beer that packs a boatload of flavor into a relatively small beer. Not cloying at all despite what the name would make you think. It was all a little artificial, though. In the begging I thought it smelled way better than it tasted but that seemed nearly reversed by the end. Another good name for this beer might have been banana split with a cherry on top. TECHNICAL: Drank 5/17/2013. Bottle. Poured a dark brown with an average to large, tan head that kept a decent sheet and left excellent lacing. The aroma had roasted and nutty malts, caramel, chocolate, dark chocolate and a little chocolate syrup; some sort of chocolate peanut butter candy; cherry, banana candy, very yellow banana, hints of peanut butter (especially when warmer), and I would say banana, but it was really more like banana sweetness than actual banana. The initial flavor was moderately sweet, slightly acidic and lightly bitter; while the finish was moderately bitter and lightly sweet and acidic. There was bitter dark chocolate, a little peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter candy, hints of just barely ripe banana, banana candy, chocolate cake, bitter chocolate, dark roast coffee, banana sweetness more than banana flavor, coffee grounds, roasted malt, and cherry. The light to medium body went down very easy and was a little watery and somewhat oily with tingly carbonation and a slightly metallic finish.

1.1 Unfortunately this tasted like a really bland Porter fermented on Juicy Fruit gum. Just tons of really fake banana. I hint of fake chocolate, and no detectable peanut butter. I paid $24 for a bottle of this in New Zealand, shared it with a friend, and we both dumped our glasses down the sink. I think Rogue is a great brewery, but this is a big miss. Wish I had seen that it was all extract based flavoring before ordering this. Yuck. I gave a higher rating to a beer I’m pretty sure was infected.

4.0 Julie like kind of sharp with a coffee chocolate flavor she liked and gave a 3.2.

3.5 Bottle from Wine Emporium December 2013. While this beer was certainly enjoyable I was expecting a bit more from it. The flavours were very subtle and quite difficult to detect.

3.0 black color; serious milk chocolate aroma with maybe just hints of banana and peanut butter chocolaty, slightly burnt roasted malt flavor; mild peanut butter and banana notes, but mainly chocolate and roasted malt; not as sweet as it smelled; dry and fairly bitter

4.0 Transfer from BA review on 10-12-13- Poured from bottle into a pint glass Appearance – The beer pours a deep-deep cola brown color with a one finger tan colored head composed of tons of fizzy bubbles. The head fades rather rapidly leaving some foamy lace on the sides of the glass and islands of foam on the top of the brew. Smell – The aroma is huge of a sweet, somewhat artificial banana smell. The banana reminds me of the scent of banana runts, and before tasting made me think I was going to be having a sweet candy like brew. Complementing the banana nicely is a peanut butter smell which mixed with a doughy smell to produce a somewhat peanut butter banana sandwich aroma. Along with these aromas are some other lighter smells of a cocoa nature as well as some sugary toffee smells and a little bit of coffee. Actually, even though the banana was somewhat artificial in nature, the aroma was very appealing overall. Taste – While the taste was relatively sweet, it was not nearly as I would have anticipated from the noise and was actually more roasty tasting then what anticipated. The taste begins with a brown sugar and toffee flavor mixed with a nice lighter banana and cocoa flavor. Along with these flavors there was also a sweet doughy taste which creates a nice base for the flavors of the brew. As the taste moves on, the banana get more pronounced and takes on a somewhat banana runt like flavor as would be anticipated from the nose. More toward the end, some peanut flavors come to the tongue, nicely complimenting the cocoa and banana flavors of the brew. With the increase in the drier cocoa flavors as well as the peanut butter flavor and a newly encountered coffee flavor that comes to the tongue at the end, a moderately sweet (but not too sweet) roasted coffee and cocoa peanut butter runt like banana doughnut flavor is left to linger on the tongue. Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the slightly thinner side with a carbonation level that is rather average. The higher carbonation was rather nice for the sweeter and banana flavors of the brew, but a bit more body may have given it a nice thicker and chewier feel, nicely accentuating the roasted and “doughnut” like characteristics of the brew. Overall – This was really quite an enjoyable novelty brew. While somewhat artificial in banana, it had a nice candy like smell and flavor that melded well with the darker and roasted doughnut like characteristics of the brew. While I was not a fan of the Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon ale, the Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate banana and peanut butter ale is delicious and even although it is rather overpriced it is one you should likely try at least once.

3.2 (bottle - 750 ml) Dark brown pour with a thin tan head. Light banana and cocoa in the aroma with a hint of roasted malts. Flavor is a light cocoa powder with a roasted backbone and a light banana sweetness at the end. No sign of the peanut butter but not unpleasant.

2.4 A dark brown pour with a white head and a lot of sediment. The aroma has a crazy mixture of chocolate, banana, peanut butter, and maple syrup. It has a light, thin body with average carbonation. Though it smells sweet, the taste is roasted with a burnt, dry finish. I really had a hard time trying to drink this beer.

2.9 "Drinkability on this one is low. 4-6 oz is enough...past that it gets a little old and cloying. Smells and tastes as advertised, thought the chocolate dominates and the banana is well behind the other aromas and flavors. Heavy palate for a low abv beer. Fun to try. Definitely glad I waited til it was on sale, and definitely a one timer."

3.2 Not bad... Not great. All I get is chocolate out of this. No peanut butter or banana. At least it’s a tasty chocolate note.

3.4 Bottle shared with northropfrye. It’s nice sweet peanut butter and chocolate aroma, which promises great things. Flavour does not deliver quite what I was expecting.

3.4 Interesting, I assumed from the low scores that people thought this was too intense or artificial or something, but if anything I thought it could be more intense. Dark brown body with brown head. Looks nice. Aroma of cocoa, banana, a touch of peanut butter, as described, milk chocolate. Taste is sweet cocoa, like the powder you make hot chocolate with. Touch of banana like a banana Runt candy. To me they should have gone the direction of the Flying Monkeys BNL beer on this one and just did it crazy with the flavours. As is, it’s not bad. Under-rated. People are just hating on this one. It’s pretty good.

4.6 Shockingly good! Light banana taste, then peanut butter hits, and a wonderful chocolate stout finish. One of my new favorite beers.

2.9 Bottle. 7/22/14. Pours opaque brown-black with a very active, dense, and resilient off-brown head. Aroma smells largely artificial; chocolate syrup, peanut butter and banana extracts, ice cream, plastic (?), not a whole lot else going on here. Taste is better than the aroma though not particularly complex; peanut flower, bitter dark chocolate, faint retro-nasal banana notes, little else. The finish is similar; bitter chocolate, banana flavoring, dry. Nice lacing. Full bodied. Active carbonation. A fun novelty but not wildly successful as a beer.

3.1 Pours a dark brown with a foamy tan head. Aroma is sweet banana and bread. Flavor is also sweet banana along with some chocolate. I don’t get any peanut butter. The sweetness can be a bit much, but this isn’t too bad.

3.0 Bottle from Plonk (Dec 2013). Muddy, medium brown, true to name, lots of chocolate and banana, creamy texture, better as it warmed up. I liked it.

1.6 750ml bottle. Smell is tootsie rolls and banana. Flavor is a porter base, heavy bitterness (?) huge injection of artificial cocoa as in tootsie roll. Unbalanced and messy.

2.9 Too much banana for my taste but as close as I can get to Sweet Baby Jesus from DeClaw. Hoping to find something with less fruit.

2.4 Ciekawostka przyrodnicza. W aromacie budyń waniliowy z bananem, ciasto czekoladowe... brzmi fajnie, ale pachnie sztucznie, do tego dochodzi nuta niczym z oranżady w proszku. W smaku wytrawne, z dziwnym ziołowym (aloesowym?) posmakiem, spora, nijak niepasująca tam goryczka długo zalega. Dziwadło niewarte swojej ceny.

2.2 Malts are very rough around the "peanut butter" and "banana" flavors of this beer. It’s not sweet by any stretch of the imagination, but there simply isn’t enough complexity (or gravity?) to carry the thing off.

3.3 750ml bottle. Would have wished for a smaller bottle as the though of having to drink that much delayed opening it until it was almost a year old. As such, most of the banana flavour had faded, though there was a little twang in the finish and it was more evident in the aroma. I mostly got peanut butter M&Ms. Better looking and body than I was expecting. Overall, not quite the hot mess I was expecting.

3.1 Pours coal black, with an off-white head. Aromas of dark chocolate and malts. Tastes of dark chocolate, bitter mocha, with some banana coming through on the finish. The banana is very artificial tasting however. I am not getting very much peanut butter in the mix. Overall, definitely a novelty beer, and I think I read it was insprired by Elvis’ love of this kind of sandwich.

3.9 Barwa: czarna, pod światło rubinowa, klarowna. Piana beżowa, dość obfita, drobnopęcherzykowa, utrzymująca się i ładnie oblepiająca szkło. Aromat: landrynki, czekolada, banan, nieco jabłka. Z pewnością oryginalny. Smak: dość pełny, raczej wytrawny. Czekolada gorzka, landrynki, orzechy, lekki karmel, banany. Koniec palony i nieco goryczkowy. Kolejne interesujące piwo z Rogue. Seria Voodoo w dalszym ciągu zaskakuje, jednak po raz kolejny trudno jest stwierdzić czy jest to smaczne. Przyznam, że piwo okazało się pełniejsze niż sądziłem, co z pewnością trzeba zaliczyć na plus, podobnie, jak głęboką barwę, ładną pianę i oryginalny aromat. W smaku jest niestety nieco gorzej. O ile czekoladę i banany można wyczuć to zabrakło mi tu obiecanego masła orzechowego. Dominującym składnikiem są natomiast landrynki. Nie do końca na to się pisałem. Raczej dla osób lubiących piwne eksperymenty.