Tap at Vices & Versa. Cloudy brown body with a very small beige head. Some berries in the aroma along with dirty wet cloth, also evoking kitty litter. Taste is certainly not what I expected from a maple beer. A weird mix of brown cake, butterscotch, white grapes (?!?) along some unidentified rotten fruits. As much as I was trying to relate to usual beer flavours I could only come-up with unusual flavours. I even thought the beer was a bit meaty in a sea-fish kind of way. Not as bad as I make it sound to be but not a whole lot better either. Maybe it was a bad keg. The pint I had was about as recommendable as a piranha blowjob.

On tap at the brewpub. Brown amber colour with a fully lasting frothy and creamy tan head. Light maple and vanilla aroma with notes of caramel malt and woody and earthy hops. Light touches of smoky maple and vanilla flavours over a toasty and grainy malt base, with a dry woody finish. Medium bodied, creamy but dry mouthfeel. I’d have pegged the base beer as a lager despite the name. An interesting lager, too, made even better with the maple syrup addition.