Maine Beer Company Peeper

Peeper

 

Maine Beer Company in Freeport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
7.31
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 132
After a few years of home brewing in our garage, my brother and I decided we should open a brewery so that we could share our beer. In 2009 we started with a one barrel system and worked on a single recipe, over and over, until Peeper was born. And now we have enough to share. Cheers!

Flavor Profile: Aromas of lemon, grapefruit and fresh cut grass. Delicate notes of raspberry, strawberry, pine, floral and faint bread

Hops: Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial

Malt: American 2-Row, Carapils, Red Wheat, Vienna
 

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8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle from Calgary. Cloudy gold with a massive Duvel-style head. The head falls, aroma has some mandarin, meyer lemon, a touch of dusty yeast. Sweet pale malts are quite attractive. While the bitterness is fairly low, the peachy-sweet citrus fruit is really nice. Good balance, fresh taste, finish shows a little dryness. A good benchmark.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2014 at 14:01

7.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle. Hazy golden body with a pillowy white head, fully lasting. Aroma of toasted grain, citrus, lemon, herb, straw. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation. Starts with taste of citrus, peach, toasted grain, grass, all of which are fairly light. Then the bitterness kicks in. Lots of flavor. Nicely nuanced.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2014 at 13:53

8/10
Tried on 10 Aug 2014 at 17:28

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle - Lemon grass hops and a touch of spice. Clear gold with a rich white head. Light citrus and grassy hops. Light pale malt sweetness to balance and slight bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 11:14

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle. Aroma is hoppy, I get Amarillo. Nice and inviting. Golden colour. Very tasty, fresh green hoppiness, fruity-resiny, with lightly minty background. Nice malty candy sweet background. Tasty, harmonic.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2014 at 06:57

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Hegedorns. Nice grapefruit and lemon nose, lightly grassy, very light, crisp malts. Bright gold, slightly cloudy, low, fine head. Great hoppy flavor. Clean bready malts, grapefruit, lemon, crackers, hay, pine, light tropical fruits. Very bitter finish. Dry indeed. Good stuff. Great drinkability; just a bit too bitter and dry.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2014 at 17:50

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Sample at Ginger Man NYC. Clear pale orange color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, hops and roast malt. Light-bodied with flavors of floral hops, tropical fruit and toasted malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a hoppy aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried from Draft at The Ginger Man - NYC on 08 Mar 2014 at 20:04

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Reviewed from notes. On tap at Great Lost Bear. Consumed March 26, 2012.
The appearance was a clear light golden colored body with a decent amount of carbonation heading towards the top. The lacing was spotty and ringy. When the bartender gave the beer to me, there wasn’t any head whatsoever.
The smell had mainly citrus backed up by some pine. The hops are pretty balanced throughout.
The taste was the pine and citrus hops with a slight bit of a grassiness.
On the palate, she sits about a light to medium, is fairly sessionable, crisp, sweet clean aftertaste and finish. She was slightly watery at times but at other times had a moderate amount of harshness, weird but no complaints.
Overall, this is an excellent choice of a beer. Its good for the style and good for me, however this could be close to an AIPA.
Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2014 at 14:12

7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Wholefoods, the Bowery, drank at home during the mass online tasting of 03/12/13. Looks the absolute bollocks this chap, hazed orange amber with a billowing off white head that is in no mood to fuck off anytime soon ! Nose is pithy orange, melon, light grapefruit, citrus zest, touch of pine resin, toasted malts, light caramac bar. Taste carries a good slather of chalky mineral bite, orange pith, bitt citric hops, straw, diluted grapefruit, fleshy mango. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry grassy bitterness in the closure. Top notch APA, well balanced, effortlessly drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2013 at 12:38

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle shared at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Cloudy yellow with a stable white head. Hoppy aroma, slightly stale, with floral and citric notes. Dry-ish flavor, a bit yeasty, with pleasant citric hops and decent bitterness. Medium-bodied. Quite refreshing.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2013 at 12:24