Peak Organic Amber Ale

Peak Organic Brewing Company
Brewed at Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Pours a medium....imagine this amber orangish color. Nice sweet biscuity malt with a touch of honey, light fruity notes and a light roasted nuttiness. Mouthfeel is actually kind of nice, with a good dose of sweet honey, biscuit, and floral hops. Not bad for an organic

Blah. I did not really like this. Aroma was weak but smelled like dirt mostly with a window cleaner in there as well. Pour was the best thing about this beer. Nice amber color with a huge pillowy 3finger tan head. Taste was weak. Light caramel malt with not much else going on. Not looking forward to the other 2 in the fridge.

Bottle sample from my distributor. Pours a nice looking full copper. Quite malty on the nose. Lots od toasted and biscuit malt. Malty and grainy on the palate finishing with a light hop bitterness.

350 ml bottle from Bevmo. Orange amber with a fizzy white head. Deep malty aroma, pleasant silky mouthfeel, malty taste with some citrus notes and a mild bitterness.

06-Nov-07 (12-oz bottle, Best Enjoyed Before July, 2007: Purchased 15-Jun-07 at BevMo in La Jolla, CA) A few months past expiration, but it’s been stored at 40 degrees, and it’s tasting great. Toasty, lightly earthy, and quite malty early on, then balanced by moderately bitter and citrusy hops toward the finish. Nice, clean finish. Balanced approach in the nose too, with toasty malts and earthy hops. Medium in body with standard carbonation levels. Deep, ruddy-amber in color with excellent clarity. The light-tan head pours small, less than half an inch, but takes several minutes to settle to a wide ring. Lacing is minimal, just a few spots here and there. Even though the label states, "delicious organic beer," this was still unexpectedly tasty. Peak Brewing does seem to have a knack for making organic beer that not only tastes good, but doesn’t have that signature grainy earthiness of organic beers.

Bottle from State Line. Deep copper pour with 1-finger off-white head. Aroma is caramel malt, honey, hops, mild brown sugar. Tastes caramel malty, with brown sugar notes, plus hops and a finishing maple syrupy flavor. Fresh tasting, but not terribly complex.

12 ounce bottle from City Market in Burlington, VT (October 2007), served a bit above fridge temperature from a Unibroue glass. Pretty looking beer, actually, with gorgeous snowflake-patterned lacing thick in the glass as the off-white, creamy meringue head subsides slowly above a translucent dull brassy body....nose is slightly nutty and pungent with a bit of cedary hop character but also, alas, more than a trace of the usual diacetyl associated with this brewery....the body is brown-sugar accented at the front, but quickly grows dry, bitter, and dusty by midpalate, with some earthy hoppiness helping to save the day towards the finish, but still on the whole a dull and somewhat unpleasant experience....carbonation is appropriate; easily the best of the three "Peak Organic" beers, but still not very good.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance :Fine cloudiness with good bright crown 3+
Nose : Faint aroma, hint of chocolate, parfumy hoped top , some earthy swing at depths.
Flavour/Palate : Woody with brown malt , roasted barley in the middle. Earthy with some Alt like qualities. Green bitter finish.