Samuel Adams Maple Ale

Maple Ale

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Amber / Red Ale Rotating
Score
6.96
ABV: 6.4% IBU: - Ticks: 14
As vibrant in color as the liveliest fall foliage, with a deep red hue supporting rich notes of caramel and vanilla, followed by a smooth maple finish. Warming enough for a chilly fall day, these autumn flavors dance against a lightly sweet malt background. Cheers!
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 ounce bottle from the fall sampler, 8/17/16. Clear dark ruby, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of toasted malts, maple, berries. The taste is maple, toasted malts, brown sugar, caramel, berries, hints of apricot. Medium bodied, well balanced. Nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2016 at 00:53


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from my brother, thanks for the beer bro. Dark amber color with a bubbly off white head. Aromas of brown sugary malt and hints of maple and earth. Not horribly complex, but pretty drinkable, I enjoyed it.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2016 at 19:55


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Bronze beer with a dark cream head. Malt and light maple aroma. Maple and light caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Maple and light caramel lingers.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2016 at 18:52


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

12oz bottle at home. Poured a clear copper color with a small white head. Aroma was light sweet maple notes, I guess. Sweetness goes through the whole thing, light caramel notes. Nutty notes. It’s fine.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2016 at 21:55


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

12 oz bottle from the fall variety pack. Aroma is caramel, bread, vaguely fruity, maple syrup. Pours clear amber with a collapsing beige head that laces a little. Taste is maple syrup, wet river rock, caramel. Pretty tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2016 at 00:11


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 ounce bottle into signature pint glass, best before 1/2017. Pours crystal clear reddish copper color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, maple, and toasted brown bread; with light nuttiness, toffee, herbal, wood, dark fruit, and toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balanced and complexity of dark/bready malt, maple, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, maple, and toasted brown bread; with light nuttiness, toffee, herbal, wood, dark fruit, and toasted earthiness. Light herbal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, maple, toasted brown bread, light nutty/toffee, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Minimal dryness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and slightly syrupy mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.4%. Overall this is a very nice amber ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Rich and complex on malt flavors, and never feels too sweet. A very enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2016 at 19:57


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Tried on 24 Sep 2016 at 19:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours deep amber into a Sam glass. White head with medium retention recedes leaving spotty spiders to skim surface. Sweet maple and toffee aromas. Dry with sweet bready caramel upfront turning to maple before the lasting sour earth finish.

Tried on 09 Sep 2016 at 18:37


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a cloudy, medium-dark brown with a light tan head that dissipates at a moderate pace. Sweet caramel and maple are the most prominent aromas. Taste is a little astringent with a mild maple flavor. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Finish is astringent.

Overall, I didn’t really care for this. The reason why, is because the aroma promises a sweetness, but the actual taste is more bitter-sour. Which really throws me off because my mouth doesn’t get what my nose told me to expect. Although, I found that if I let it warm up to room temperature it does get somewhat sweeter, but the finish is still on the astringent side.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2016 at 15:56


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12oz bottle into an Allagash glass. Foamy tan head that dissipates quickly-dk amber to mahogany. A-sweet med malt-ok, maple sugar/caramel, earthy. T-follows.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2016 at 15:16