Lunch | Maine Beer Company
Brewed by:
Maine Beer Company
Maine, United States
mainebeercompany.com
Style: American IPA
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 7.00%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
Our “East Coast” version of a West Coast-style IPA. Intense hop flavors and aromas of tropical and citrus fruits and pine dominate. A subtle malt sweetness brings the beer into balance.
Lunch is a special whale that has been spotted off the Maine coast since 1982. She has what looks like a bite taken out of her fin, which adds to her unique character. We dedicate this beer to her determination and persistence.
Keep on swimming!
Added by Jason on 05-10-2011
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Ratings: 5,364 | Reviews: 818
4.31/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Out of Freeport, Maine comes Lunch from Maine Beer Company, the East Coast take on a West Coast IPA. Also has an interesting story on the how the beer was named.
Lunch pours a cloudy amber with golden highlights and a nice, light 2-finger head that settles depositing some average lacing.
The smell is tropical and citrus, which comes across juicy; pineapple and a hint of piney resin and bready malt.
Taste is floral and citrus notes including tangerince and pineapple followed by a touch of bitterness that subsides and finishes clean.
Do what's right! Lunch! It's what to drink.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Out of Freeport, Maine comes Lunch from Maine Beer Company, the East Coast take on a West Coast IPA. Also has an interesting story on the how the beer was named.
Lunch pours a cloudy amber with golden highlights and a nice, light 2-finger head that settles depositing some average lacing.
The smell is tropical and citrus, which comes across juicy; pineapple and a hint of piney resin and bready malt.
Taste is floral and citrus notes including tangerince and pineapple followed by a touch of bitterness that subsides and finishes clean.
Do what's right! Lunch! It's what to drink.
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4.29/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Bottled on 5/8/18
Look: deep burnt orange with a huge, fluffy white head and tons of lacing
Smell: dense pine and raw hops concealing incredible notes of candied orange along with bits of peach and grapefruit scattered throughout
Taste: a fruit salad with a heavy dose of pine and spruce; big notes of grapefruit and bitter orange and a malt presence which really does even things out; you can really taste some wilderness in this beer
Feel: excellent balance between both pillowy soft and firm; medium-bodied with a good level of carbonation; ultimately, dry and crisp
Overall: this is a classically-styled IPA that does simply everything right. It's not hazy flavor bomb nor a New England-style milkshake; it's just a damn good beer that's both well-structured and balanced, and that's to be appreciated. Definitely competing with Another One as my favorite MBC brew so far.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Bottled on 5/8/18
Look: deep burnt orange with a huge, fluffy white head and tons of lacing
Smell: dense pine and raw hops concealing incredible notes of candied orange along with bits of peach and grapefruit scattered throughout
Taste: a fruit salad with a heavy dose of pine and spruce; big notes of grapefruit and bitter orange and a malt presence which really does even things out; you can really taste some wilderness in this beer
Feel: excellent balance between both pillowy soft and firm; medium-bodied with a good level of carbonation; ultimately, dry and crisp
Overall: this is a classically-styled IPA that does simply everything right. It's not hazy flavor bomb nor a New England-style milkshake; it's just a damn good beer that's both well-structured and balanced, and that's to be appreciated. Definitely competing with Another One as my favorite MBC brew so far.
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4.35/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pint bottle born on May 8, 2018
Bodacious white head from a normal pour. Immortal curtains and blankets of carbonation. Golden orange metal flake haze. Really awesome appearance.
Orangy citrus aroma, some floral perfume and biscuit.
Lemon, tangerine, faint pine.
Low bitterness, enduring carbonation, dry finish.
How you do that, Maine Beer Co.?
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look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pint bottle born on May 8, 2018
Bodacious white head from a normal pour. Immortal curtains and blankets of carbonation. Golden orange metal flake haze. Really awesome appearance.
Orangy citrus aroma, some floral perfume and biscuit.
Lemon, tangerine, faint pine.
Low bitterness, enduring carbonation, dry finish.
How you do that, Maine Beer Co.?
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4.68/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.1/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.46/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.19/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.16/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.81/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.35/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.75/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Decanted from a 16.9 oz (500 ml) bottle into a conical pint glass; bottled on 03/27/2018.
A: Pours a slightly hazy, lemony yellow, somewhere between straw and golden, with exuberant head formation leaving a greater than one inch head with really excellent retention and foamy lacing. Sediment evident.
S: Initially very strong lemon fruit and breadiness.
T: Semidry. Lemon citrus, honeysuckle, and pine. Bitterness moderate and subtly, leaving a very clean ever so slightly bitter finish.
M: Light bodied with strongly persistent effervescence. Silky mouthfeel.
O: A truly delicious, light, slightly sweet, lemon chiffon American IPA. Truly exceptional and superb for summer.
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Decanted from a 16.9 oz (500 ml) bottle into a conical pint glass; bottled on 03/27/2018.
A: Pours a slightly hazy, lemony yellow, somewhere between straw and golden, with exuberant head formation leaving a greater than one inch head with really excellent retention and foamy lacing. Sediment evident.
S: Initially very strong lemon fruit and breadiness.
T: Semidry. Lemon citrus, honeysuckle, and pine. Bitterness moderate and subtly, leaving a very clean ever so slightly bitter finish.
M: Light bodied with strongly persistent effervescence. Silky mouthfeel.
O: A truly delicious, light, slightly sweet, lemon chiffon American IPA. Truly exceptional and superb for summer.
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4.75/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
One of my all time favorites!
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
One of my all time favorites!
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3.03/5 rDev -31%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Light amber with a little cloud. Little sweet friuty taste. Not a lot of smell.
22oz draft. Lucky's at Boston Logan airport.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Light amber with a little cloud. Little sweet friuty taste. Not a lot of smell.
22oz draft. Lucky's at Boston Logan airport.
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4.52/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
3.67/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
4.43/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.54/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Bottled 3/27/18, consumed 4/21/18
L: Hazy, dirty amber honey color with a huge head that left great lacing. Lots of visible sediments swimming around in there.
S: Very bright, full tropical and citrus fruit notes with a bit of sweet malt. Wow so nice and appealing.
T: Good balance of the tropical and citrus fruits with even notes of pine and dank. A tiny bit of sweetness.
F: Medium-light and surprisingly a bit thin, but really strong, heavy, and solid bitterness, certainly more than you'd expect out of the East Coast. Great carbonation.
O: This is a very nice IPA that stands out on its own - terrific nose, East Coast look and aroma with a more West Coast taste and feel. Very impressive offering from MBC.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Bottled 3/27/18, consumed 4/21/18
L: Hazy, dirty amber honey color with a huge head that left great lacing. Lots of visible sediments swimming around in there.
S: Very bright, full tropical and citrus fruit notes with a bit of sweet malt. Wow so nice and appealing.
T: Good balance of the tropical and citrus fruits with even notes of pine and dank. A tiny bit of sweetness.
F: Medium-light and surprisingly a bit thin, but really strong, heavy, and solid bitterness, certainly more than you'd expect out of the East Coast. Great carbonation.
O: This is a very nice IPA that stands out on its own - terrific nose, East Coast look and aroma with a more West Coast taste and feel. Very impressive offering from MBC.
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4.43/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.59/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Lunch from Maine Beer Company
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