Peak Organic Maple Oat Ale

Peak Organic Brewing Company
Brewed at Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Specialty Grain
Portland, Maine USA

Bomber - Pours a darkish amber in color with a medium white head that fades to a thin covering over the beer. Aroma is malty and sweet with hints of both floral hops and the barest of maple. Flavor is a pleasant mix of slightly sweet malts (cramel, toffee) to start, a definite presence of the maple and a medium amount of hop bitterness. Finish is clean and slightly bitter. I would have thought that the oats would give it a bit more body... a bit thin... but otherwise surprisingly pretty good.

Pours to a medium amber with a decent sized head. I want to like this one right off the bat -- good aroma with some caramel, pine, and what might be a bit of maple in there but beer was too warm to really get a full picture. Regardless, good aroma. Smooth flavor with a good deal of resin present. Definitely more than I’m used to. A bit of Maple starts to come through on the finish. For a reasonably 6 pack, this is a pretty good beer, but I can’t say I’d want to go for more than like 2 or 3 of these in one sitting. I think it’s been written off a bit much by some of the other reviewers, and I say this as someone who has been underwhelmed with other Peak Products. This shows progress.

12oz bottle. Pours a generally clear dark amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of maple syrup, wood, some phenol, toffee, caramel and maybe some honey. Flavor is sweet and maltier with notes of honey, caramel, grain, wood, some hints of floral hops. Generally light to medium body with a pleasing malty 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.

(12oz bottle) Medium off-white head atop cloudy amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, toffee/maple, some grapefruit/earthy, light metallic. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit/earthy, light caramel, maple. Light-medium body, light acidity.

(Bottle). Not much aroma, what there is is mildly sweet. Orange amber body, small head. Flavor is largely oats, slightest hint of maple. Cardboardish and thin. Not a winner.

22oz bottle (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a slightly hazy copper body with a small white covering for a head. Aroma of grains, malt, caramel, and slight maple. Taste of malt, caramel, and slight maple. This medium bodied brew finishes with some bitterness. No oat flavor. Would of like more maple. A bit lacking.

From a 12-oz bottle and served during the ABR ’08 in Minneapolis, MN. Pours a clear copper amber brew with an average off-white head that slowly dissipates to a thin white ring. Aroma of caramel and biscuity malt, a touch of honey and very little maple syrup. Taste is a little gritty, medium bodied with flavors of dry caramel malt, some light fruit and a touch of maple syrup. Finish is semi-dry with a toasted caramel malt aftertaste. The maple is very light compared to most others I’ve tried but still and average specialty grain beer.