The Maple Collaboration
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyAmber / Red Ale - Irish Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.29
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Peak Maple Collaboration is a truly local project. It’s a new twist on our previously brewed Maple Oat Ale. We worked with local farmers and small businesses to craft this beer with Maine-grown organic oats from GrandyOats and Vermont-produced organic maple syrup from Butternut Mountain Farms. The Maple Collaboration is a copper-colored brew with a dynamic mouth feel from the organic oats and a subtle richness in the finish from the organic maple syrup. The beer is in support of Chefs Collaborative, the nation’s leading environmentally conscious culinary organization.
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6/10
Tried
on 14 Nov 2015
at 12:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Clear golden amber with off-white head. Aromas of corn syrup, maple syrup. Tastes of maple syrup, brown sugar, corn syrup. Medium body with a dry finish. Like cheap corn syrup based maple syrup.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2015
at 19:39
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Pours a dark amber, almost a copper from a bottle. Aroma of cloying sweet maple syrup, almost buttery in aroma and flavor too. Rather overly sweet, which I suppose was to be expected. I’m also just not a fan of ambers. Meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 16:27
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Reddish with a small beige head. Smells of leaves, maple. Taste is heavy maple syrup, grass, leaves. Interesting. Not sure if I like it. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2015
at 18:21
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft. Clear amber color, medium white head. Aroma of caramel. Taste is sweet caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Oct 2014
at 17:23
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from State Line, 11/25/13
Aroma: The nose is very sweet, maple syrup, honey, caramel, toffee, and apple
Appearance: It pours a clear reddish-orange color with a frothy beige head and mid lace
Flavor: The taste is heavy sweet, and component-wise it basically matches up with the nose
Palate: It is medium bodied and has a pretty solid feels that stays away from getting too sticky
Overall Impression: I thought this was a decent, but ultimately too sweet beer. I certainly didn't hate it, but it just doesn't quite do it for me.
Aroma: The nose is very sweet, maple syrup, honey, caramel, toffee, and apple
Appearance: It pours a clear reddish-orange color with a frothy beige head and mid lace
Flavor: The taste is heavy sweet, and component-wise it basically matches up with the nose
Palate: It is medium bodied and has a pretty solid feels that stays away from getting too sticky
Overall Impression: I thought this was a decent, but ultimately too sweet beer. I certainly didn't hate it, but it just doesn't quite do it for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2013
at 15:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
It pours a clear copper color leaving the same color body. A nice one inch white foamy head appears and concaves to leave some nice foamy lacing around the sides of the pint glass. The body is light enough for some carbonation to be seen rising. The smell is all about the maple up front pretty much masking everything else even after some warming, I was hoping some other possible flavors might show up, but not this time. The taste is exceptionally sweet, perhaps a bit too much maple, I wasn’t expecting this. The palate is about a medium and very smooth, possibly because of the extra maple in this beer. Overall, I really wasn’t expecting this beer to be this good. Though its more of a dessert beer because of the sweetness, I’d probably have it again. I will say its very different for the style.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2013
at 19:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle-dissipating offwhite-amber. A-maple, med malt, fruit. T-slight maple, med malt, fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2012
at 04:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Poured a clear bronze color, a bit like the color of maple syrup itself - with a small off-white head. Aroma was sweet maple, sugar notes. Not a whole lot else going on in this one.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2012
at 09:43
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 6
Mild wood and butterscotch nose. Clear copper, thin head. Dried leaves with a kiss of maple syrup. Well balanced, but the flavor could be better. Fizzy. Meh.
Tried
on 11 Nov 2012
at 17:25