The Maple Collaboration
Peak Organic Brewing Company

The Maple CollaborationThe Maple Collaboration
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From:
Peak Organic Brewing Company
 
Maine, United States
Style:
American Amber / Red Ale
ABV:
7%
Score:
81
Avg:
3.55 | pDev: 15.77%
Reviews:
52
Ratings:
134
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Feb 26, 2022
Added:
Oct 23, 2011
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  10
Peak Maple Collaboration is a truly local project. It’s a new twist on our previously brewed Maple Oat Ale. We worked with local farmers and small businesses to craft this beer with Maine-grown organic oats from GrandyOats and Vermont-produced organic maple syrup from Butternut Mountain Farms. The Maple Collaboration is a copper-colored brew with a dynamic mouth feel from the organic oats and a subtle richness in the finish from the organic maple syrup. The beer is in support of Chefs Collaborative, the nation’s leading environmentally conscious culinary organization.

26 IBU
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Ratings by UCLABrewN84:
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Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California

3.54/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a slightly murky orange-brown with a foamy tan head that settles to a partial film on top of the beer. Foamy streaks of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, oats, and some subdued maple aromas. Taste is much the same with malty and earthy maple flavors on the finish. There is a medium amount of bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer but the maple presence in the smell and taste seems to come out more as the beer warms up.
Mar 24, 2013
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.5 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Feb 26, 2022
 
Rated: 3.91 by Ben1313 from New Hampshire

Nov 05, 2017
 
Rated: 4.12 by lowlyone from Massachusetts

Oct 26, 2017
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Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine

3.95/5  rDev +11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A: Pours a reddish brown color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a decent cap that leaves some good lacing

S: Maple syrup, toasted oats, husky maltiness, and an underlying fruitiness make up most of the nose. Some very light woody notes as well

T: Follows the nose. Starts off with some toasted malt and oats, light fruitiness, and moderate maple sweetness. Goes into a bit of the woody/earthy notes from the hops as well. Finishes with a lingering maple undertone and more toasted malt

M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. A bit on the spritzy side, but not too bad

O: Does a really nice job highlighting the maple syrup and oats. Quite easy to drink and keeps you wanting more of the maple goodness. Solid
Mar 27, 2017
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Reviewed by kalosjakar from Rhode Island

3.39/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Cloudy reddish/amber color with a foamy off-white head, fairly carbonated.. it fizzed up quick.

Aroma: iced tea (seriously), maple sugar.

Taste: definitely getting sweet sweet maple up front, brown sugar, both the aroma and taste are pretty straight forward and simple.. not bad but not great.
a little too sweet, not enough bittering to balance it out.

Feel: medium to thin body, wet finish
Aug 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.08 by connecticutpoet from Connecticut

Apr 29, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by westyrun from New York

Feb 03, 2016
 
Rated: 3.41 by RBorsato from Virginia

Dec 18, 2015
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Reviewed by AndrewMichael from Virginia

3.27/5  rDev -7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
22 oz bottle poured into a stemmed glass. Dark maple color, an aroma of toasted oats. There is lots of oats flavor in this beer, a bit too malty for my liking. I was hoping for just a bit more maple syrupy flavor.
Nov 26, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.72/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
22oz bottle, a 'collaboration' between Peak Brewing and the farmers who get them their production ingredients - got it.

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two anemic fingers of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just bubbly pale beige head, which leaves some craggy sea cliff lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.

It smells of bready, slightly doughy caramel malt, musty maple syrup, buttered breakfast biscuits, a twinge of sour yeast, and tame earthy, floral, and weedy hops. The taste is more maple sap-forward, the not quite pancake-ready sweetness abounding, with a steady grainy, sort of oaten caramel malt, some persistent diacetyl, muddled dark orchard fruit, and a waning leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness.

The bubbles are fairly supportive, but not providing of much else in their stoic frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, the yeast and hops apparently having more productive things to do than mess around here. It finishes on the sweet side, sure, but moderated well enough by the nature of the maple and a few enterprising hops.

Overall, not a bad maple brew, the tree effluent character coming off as robust and not overly saccharine, so, good. As for the oats, I didn't mention them in the mouthfeel, because I was apparently still taken by how they did well to muscle into the malt flavour. Yeah, a decent quaff, one that won't set off any of the usual tongue-scraping sensors.
Nov 12, 2015
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Reviewed by irrevjim from Massachusetts

3.84/5  rDev +8.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
look; burnt orange, not much carbonation, nice off white 1/2" head, not quite moderate retention but some, moderate soapy lacing
smell; stale bread, molasses, maple, good but small
taste; sweet maple, roasted malt, pine, balanced pretty well, would be perfect for me if a little less sweet, but it is a maple ale
feel; smooth, with just a little hops and bitter feel and just enough carbonation to balance it, very nice
overall; a nice solid ale that delivers the maple it promises while still being a solid ale, full bodied but so smooth and gentle you can forget its 6.2% abv
Nov 08, 2015
 
Rated: 4.17 by harsley from Massachusetts

Oct 30, 2015
 
Rated: 4.58 by Drewtechie24 from Rhode Island

Oct 26, 2015
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Reviewed by smanson56 from New Hampshire

3.52/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I am a real fan of good maple syrup so thought this beer might be really good . it pours a darker reddish orange color. There is a solid maple aroma to the nose. It lost a lot in the taste IMO as there was this lingering burnt maple taste that was there through every sip of the bottle. This is not a bad beer but there was IMO a strange burnt flavor in the maple.
Oct 22, 2015
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Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

3.76/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
From the 650 ml. bottle. 2015. batch. Sampled October 22, 2015.

It is an attractive looking copper-amber color with a long-lasting off-white head.

The aroma is full of maple syrup esters with an undercurrent of grain and oats. Not much hop profile.

The mouthfeel is medium.

The taste is really a maple syrup lover's delight with a bready, grainy malt character interspersed leading up to a mildly bitter finale.
Oct 22, 2015
 
Rated: 4.38 by braican from Massachusetts

Sep 28, 2015
 
Rated: 3.4 by mklisz from New Hampshire

Aug 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by drummerdwzp from Connecticut

Aug 04, 2015
 
Rated: 4.64 by Stagga_Lee from Massachusetts

Jul 30, 2015
The Maple Collaboration from Peak Organic Brewing Company
Beer rating: 81 out of 100 with 134 ratings