Local Series: Vermont
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the cabin, NH. Pours clear, rich gold with a tight, off-white cream head. Big of toasty dough on the nose, tangerine and orange citrus. Medium to big sweet flavor, light tangy tangerine, some piney bitterness, light caramel, orange. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Medium sweet finish with light, sticky toasted sugars, some resinous pine, some more tangy tangerine, suggestions of lemon and honey. Similar to the ME Local, perhaps a touch less sweet and a bit more tangy. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz bottle-pours gold/amber with an offwhite head. Aroma is orange/pine, medium malt-caramel. Taste is orange/pine hops, medium malt-caramel, soft.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Side by side by side comparison. All 22 oz. bottles Vermont has the color, head and carbonation levels as the previous other two state varieties I sampled. The nose and flavor of this brew is much more geared toward a malty APA and the hops play a second fiddle. In fact I could really get much hop character at all from the brew. I really enjoyed comparing theses beers and the concept and marketing was brilliant. After all I tracked down 3 of the 4 bottles to compare them! It was a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Personally I feel the Maine was most pleasing to my palate.