Build Fast Formula Eighty:20 Cinna-A-Doodle Crunch & Peanut Butter Chocolate

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Put together my own impressions after taking advantage of the launch deal…

Chocolate Peanut Butter

Main Impressions

  • Hits evenly — 50/50 — with notes of Chocolate and Peanut Butter.
  • The chocolate seems to be on the sweeter, milk chocolate side — a bit more so than BFF’s Chocolate Lava Cake.
  • Being 80% Micellar Casein, the texture is wonderfully dense and creamy.
  • PB could use a bit more saltiness — but my handy Sea Salt shaker solve that :laughing:.

Subjective Note

When it comes to protein shakes, I’m wary of “Chocolate Peanut Butter” as a concept. The two flavors tend to cancel each other out, leaving me desiring a fuller, richer experience of one or the other instead.

BFF’s Chocolate PB falls into that trap a bit here, and given how well-done their Chocolate Lava Cake is, I can’t help but feel like they’d have been better off going full PB with the new flavor. Again, though, that’s purely subjective. (Consider it a killer idea for the future.) If you ARE into Chocolate PB, this is a top-tier product — and one I wouldn’t hesitate to use as a Chocolate PB go-to.

Final Score:

9.1 / 10

Cinna-A-Doodle Crunch

Main Impressions

  • Hits evenly — 33:33:33 — on notes of cinnamon spice, snickerdoodle sweetness, and snickerdoodle pastry-ness (AKA the “Crunch”, I assume).
  • As with Chocolate PB — and as is the nature of the formula — texture is wonderfully dense and creamy.
  • Flavor is executed fantastically — both on the initial hit, and in the aftertaste, which can sometimes be a bit too spicy with Cinnamon-Snickerdoodle flavors, but not here. I think the denser consistency and pastry aspects of the flavoring help dampen that effect in just the right way.

Comparisons

To me, this a clear winner of PES Snickerdoodle — one my (now-previous) favorites of the genre.

Another genre favorite is Ghost Cinnamon Cereal Milk. In terms of taste, I’d say the two can live side-by-side. Ghost runs a bit sweeter with less of a pastry-like kick, but it’s wonderfully executed in it’s own right. 80:20’s formula is more to my personal liking, however — so for me, it has the edge.

Overall, this is a well-profiled, well-flavored, well-textured product in a genre that far too often relies on its name appeal alone. (The silly name is pretty cool, too, though :laughing:).

Final Score:

9.4 / 10

Rankings

Given my previous 80:20 reviews, my rankings come out as:

  • Vanilla
  • Cinna-a-Doodle Crunch
  • Chocolate Peanut Butter
  • Chocolate

… Can’t go wrong with any of them, though :smiley:

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