Maple City Brown
14th Star Brewing Company in Saint Albans, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.97
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English Style Brown Ale with a sweet woody maple flavor that combines with subtle nuttiness and dark chocolate notes to provide balance for the earthiness provided by old world varietals of hops. Brewed with Maple Syrup.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
On tap at 14th Star on 02/09/2019.
In some kind of glass they made up.
Appearance: dark brown color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: woody sweet nuts with some maple sweetness and caramel/toffee malts; earthy hop tones further down in there
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet nutty to sweet malty conglomeration; finishes with an earthy nutty to slight maple-y tone
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; good smoothness with a little bit of earthy grit seemingly wanting to nick the tongue ever so slightly but honestly, it's pretty faint and non-offensive
Overall: mostly a pretty good English brown ale with some maple in it. 14th Star is not ashamed of putting maple in a lot of their beers and I don't see anything wrong with that as long as they do it right and don't get excessive and make it cloying.
On tap at 14th Star on 02/09/2019.
In some kind of glass they made up.
Appearance: dark brown color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: woody sweet nuts with some maple sweetness and caramel/toffee malts; earthy hop tones further down in there
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet nutty to sweet malty conglomeration; finishes with an earthy nutty to slight maple-y tone
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; good smoothness with a little bit of earthy grit seemingly wanting to nick the tongue ever so slightly but honestly, it's pretty faint and non-offensive
Overall: mostly a pretty good English brown ale with some maple in it. 14th Star is not ashamed of putting maple in a lot of their beers and I don't see anything wrong with that as long as they do it right and don't get excessive and make it cloying.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2026
at 20:15