Mybeerbuzz .com Highlights Nutista / Stone w00tstout Nutbutter

If you missed my first review of Nutista / Stone nut butters, I should come clean once again and admit that I love nut butter.  In fact I will readily admit I may have a nut butter problem.  Leave me alone with a jar and a spoon and you will soon have an empty jar and a clean spoon.

And why not?  Nut butters may actually be nature’s perfect food.  They are rich, satisfying, fulfilling, energizing, flavorful and nutritious (get it “nut”-ritious?).  They are perfect for breakfast on a warn slice of wheat toast, ideal for lunch on a coarse cracker, perfect for a later afternoon snack on a piece of celery, yummy for dinner with some jelly on a slice of sourdough bread and even delish for desert on some vanilla ice cream.  Convinced yet?  Hungry yet?  Well I am.

Today we’re going to be sampling another Nutista / Stone Brewing collaboration nut butter.  If you missed the news, Stone co-founder Greg Koch has joined with the Carlsbad, CA nut butter company Nutista to make some really interesting beer-based nut butters.  They’ve released a Tangerine Express IPA Nutbutter, a Totalitarian IRS Nutbutter and their third release will soon be in my belly.

Today’s feast (oops I mean today’s review) is all about the latest Nutista / Stone creation…w00tstout Nutbutter.  Nutista has created a nut butter based on the Drew Curtis / Wil Wheaton / Greg Koch collaboration Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout.  The beer is an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat, and flaked rye that is aged in Bourbon barrels, and as you would expect, the nut butter uses raw pecans, dry-roasted peanuts, Bourbon soaked malt, Belizean chocolate, dry malt extract, Brazil Oberon coffee, malted rye, roasted barley, brewer’s yeast, coconut and Himalayan sea salt!  Hungry yet?  Mouth watering like mine yet?

OK I can’t resist any longer…lets open the jar.

Nutista / Stone w00tstout Nutbutter is a deep rich chocolate brown color that just screams “eat me.”  It may look a bit more desert-y with the rich chocolate color, but stay tuned for more on that.  The texture is thicker than the Tangerine Express Nutbutter, but still creamy with that wonderful stone-ground texture.  When you open the jar, the chocolate aromas rise to the top, but we also found a bit of vanilla, coffee and pecan aromas prominent in the nose.  I love pecan-based nut butters, and Nutista / Stone w00tstout has some really delicious pecan flavors that lay nicely on the chocolate and peanut flavors.  I was expecting this to be a more chocolate desert-like nut butter, but I was glad to see that the nuts still play a leading role.  There is a bit of roasty and coffee flavor in the background with a nice dry milk chocolate malt-like flavor at the end.

Nutista / Stone w00tstout is a really complex and tasty nut butter, and after trying it plain, we also found out how well it works with with jelly, on crackers, on warm toast and even on ice cream (Of course we had to test that!).  The texture does firm up on ice-cream, but in the end it was like having nutty fudge sauce with your desert, so it works really well.

By the time I finished my “tasting” and review, I managed to eat almost half of the jar…and I suspect you will too.  Now are you hungry?  Want some for yourself?  Be sure to try all of the Nutista / Stone Nutbutters as well as well as all of the other cool nut butter that Nutista makes for yourself.  And when you do, be sure to let us know what YOU think.