Schlafly Biere de Maplewood

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Sweet biscuity aroma. Nice golden amber with small white head and extensive lacing. Flavor is sweet malt - like a cookie (I didn’t know when I took my notes that there was maple syrup in the beer). Finishes with a floral hops/yeasty flavor like a Belgian ale. Very nice-I had to have two.

Sampled at the Schlafly "Repeal Of Prohibition" beer festival, includes maple syrup from Strawberry Hill Farms in Skowhegan, Maine. I was surprised at how much I liked this, not sickly sweet or sugary, toasted caramel with a light fruitiness, and in the end the maple syrup kicks in, a nice fresh maple that doesn’t overwhelm the malts, medium bodied, a pleasant sipper on a cold spring Saturday afternoon.

Amber with thin quickly diminishing white head. Aroma of light grassy hops and light sweet malts. Taste of maple and other sweet malts with a mild hop finish. Smooth malty body with mild bitterness and a sweet finish.

At bottleworks as "Maplewood Ale": Pours a light amber, very thin head and light carbonation. Aroma is sweet and bready, some honey-like quality in there. Flavor is warm and semi-sweet, malts lend typical flavor for this brewery. A hint of maple syrup in there, but it’s dry. Not nearly as sweet as one would expect.

Rating 1081, on tap at the Bottleworks on Nov 2, 2007. So this beer is kind of why I love microbrews and the people that work at them. Went to the bar and asked this guy who was working what is the maplewood like. He’s like "This is what its like" and hands me a sample that had to be like 6 oz full. Took a swig and couldnt really tell if it was an amber or a sweeter pale and asked for the bartenders help. He was remarkably entertaining and a good source of information.

Beer pours dark but clear with no head. Nose is sweet and suggary. Taste good hop character but again more sweetness with sugar and maple syrup like character. As this thing warmed up the maple came out and the hops faded to much more of a amber with syrup rather than pale with syrup. Delightful.

Tasted 9/13/08. 2008 Schalfly Hop in the City. Filtered with a honey amber hue. Bone white head. Nutty, sweet aromas. Medium bodied with sweet malts and a sticky finish. Slight hop character. Tight effervescence and mildly bitter. Touch acidic and hoppy. Lingering malt finish.

Sampled at Schlafly’s Repeal of Prohibition Fest along with Beerdrenched. Pours clear gold with an off-white head. The aroma has toasted malt, honey and maple syrup. Medium / full body with some medium carbonation. Taste startw with slick honey and toasted malt. The finish has slick honey and toasted malt. I’m guessing the maple is coming across to me as honey. The finish has bits of spicy hops ans smooth caramel. This is a good beer that I’d like to have a pint of outside of a fest - I will rerate at that time.

Golden body with a small but long lasting head. Very nice and enjoyable flavor. The maple syrup comes through and it is smooth and nicely balanced. Gets thin late in the glass.