Draft: Tea nose. Clear copper, medium yelliow head, nice glass coating. Strong pecan, brown sugar, and tea. Grass finish. Medium body, easy carbonation. Nicely done session ale.

Drop Off Service, NYC tap ($7): Pours reddish amber with a white head. Aroma is a lot of maple syrup. Taste is maple syrup too. However, this is not as cloying as some Canadian maple beers. Not bad body, but fairly meh. Good if you like maple.

Bottle from Whole Foods in Santa Rosa, CA. Pours copper with a foamy off-white head. Seems to have a light maple aroma. Flavor is definite maple. The "malt" is a bit light, so maybe that’s the oat. While the maple is sweetish, the oat seems to add a bit of dry astringency. Somehow that almost comes to bitter balancing the syrup. Quite a different brew.

12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods, Fairfax, VA. Pours a hazy amber color with a medium creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of toasted malts, stone fruits, nutty notes and faint maple notes. The taste is maple, caramel, plums, raisins, toasted malts and more maple in the finish. Medium bodied.

Bottle. Pours a light, hazy copper with a creamy, off-white head. Light malt aroma with some bread and caramel. Sweet taste, very bready, some maple notes, but mostly in the aftertaste. Very little bitterness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Perhaps a tad artificial tasting, but overall quite good. Great lacing, lightly warming, fairly rich and with mild complexity.

Pretty average orange tinted amber coloured body with a bit of a dense look to it and a very thin slightly off-white head. Aroma of honey, malt, a touch of alcohol and a light maple scent. Medium-bodied; Assertive sweetness at first with a heavy mouthful and a malty and caramel finish, not bad really. Aftertaste shows some caramel sweetness, some nuts, a touch of honey and a good dose of malt. Overall, a decent beer - I was expecting worse. The beer doesn’t have a bad taste, but there isn’t enough of the good characteristics for it to shine through. Regardless, good sugars and some decent complexity to render it a beer worth trying, actually. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, DC on 15-February-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 26-February-2010.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy red-orange color with a medium sized creamy beige head. The aroma was sour caramel and maple and was a bit off. The flavor was sour toasted caramel with faint maple and a bitter harsh fruity hop presence. The finish was long, bitter and harsh. Eh.

Draught at Spuyten Duyvil, New York
Hazy amber color; creamy persistent head. The aroma is too simple, light cereals and malt. It has medium body strength, malt flavor, a bit on the dry side; the oats give a pleasant but very light touch. Ordinary.

Pours lazy amber into a Sam glass. White head quickly recedes to sicken surface. Sour butterscotch aroma. Soft with sweet Brach’s butterscotch and sour candy corns. Dried wood finish.

An amber ale with a thin off white head. A very nice aroma of dark maple syrup, woody notes, and fusel alcohol. In mouth, a sweet malty ale with an oily mouth feel, lots of British hops, and a nutty final. Medium bodied.