Bourbon Street Maple Pecan
Abita Brewing Co.

Bourbon Street Maple PecanBourbon Street Maple Pecan
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From:
Abita Brewing Co.
 
Louisiana, United States
Style:
American Brown Ale
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.7 | pDev: 12.97%
Reviews:
38
Ratings:
137
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 11, 2020
Added:
Jan 12, 2015
Wants:
  9
Gots:
  32
Bourbon Street Maple Pecan is a nut brown ale that is aged in Bourbon barrels. Our Maple Pecan is brewed with a combination of pale, munich, biscuit, and caramel malts. Roasted pecans are also added to the brew for a nutty flavor and aroma. We add maple syrup in the brewhouse as well to give the beer a sweet flavor and full body. After fermentation and aging the beer is transferred into the bourbon barrels. It is then aged for another 8 weeks to absorb all of the flavors from the barrels. The result is brown ale that blends the light flavors of nuts, maple syrup, and baking bread from the beer with the warming flavors of wood and vanilla from the bourbon barrels.
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Ratings by SFC21:
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Rated by SFC21 from Florida

3.69/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Sep 19, 2015
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

2.83/5  rDev -23.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
650ml brown glass bottle with a pry-off cap nabbed at a beer store in New Orleans, LA for $5.99 USD plus tax.

"Ale brewed with pecans & maple syrup and aged in bourbon barrels." 8.5% ABV. "Flavored ale." "Bourbon barrel-aged nut brown ale, brewed with pale, Munich, biscuit and caramel malts." ... "Our brewmaster adds roasted Louisiana pecans and real maple syrup..." "aged for months in small batch bourbon whiskey barrels."

Aroma is all fake nut extract and generic malt sweetness. Has an off-putting buttery character to it. There is nothing recognizably maple or bourbon in this aroma.

Taste follows the aroma. Has a buttery coating mouthfeel with nut oils and subdued pecan working their way in without contributing much depth of flavour. I don't taste maple syrup or bourbon (barrel). No oak, no vanilla/vanillin, no barrel sugars, no toasted coconut...whichever small batch bourbon formerly filled those barrels ain't contributing anything to this brew. The woodsiness you'd expect in a beer that plays with both oak and maple is completely absent. Honestly, I wouldn't know this was barrel aged if I tried it in a blind tasting and I'd put money against any experienced drinker making that observation. A waste of a barrel aging program, but then I guess the "months" it spent in barrels could have been two and the "small batch bourbon" could have been shit.

The pecan is not particularly vivid or evocative. The base beer is very generic...2-row, caramel, that's kind of it.

Drinkable but dull. Not what one hopes for in the sense that it's a bourbon barrel aged maple syrup pecan ale that doesn't really evoke bourbon or maple syrup, and lacks much vivid pecan flavour.

I mean it hides its ABV decently, but it's far from great. I prefer their straightforward bourbon imperial stout, but this is probably still one of the brewery's better beers - though that says more about the brewery than it does this beer.

C / AVERAGE
Feb 11, 2020
 
Rated: 3.56 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Apr 14, 2019
 
Rated: 3.25 by bigred89 from Maryland

Feb 09, 2019
 
Rated: 4.37 by tp1962 from Illinois

Sep 30, 2018
 
Rated: 3.77 by DigitGrowler from Kentucky

Aug 22, 2018
 
Rated: 3.36 by porters4life from Illinois

May 30, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by BdM from Netherlands

Feb 16, 2018
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Rated by Beerucee from Texas

4/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bourbon barrel good. Getting a different feel/taste but not catching maple our pecan.
Feb 10, 2018
 
Rated: 3.9 by philbe311 from Pennsylvania

Dec 30, 2017
 
Rated: 3.66 by dukeufo from California

Dec 28, 2017
 
Rated: 3.25 by thinwhiteduke from Illinois

Dec 27, 2017
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Reviewed by Jimlikesbeer from North Carolina

4.64/5  rDev +25.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I really like this beer. Very surprised by the lower BA rating. My bomber poured into a tulip had gods head with lacing. The bourbon is there but not at all over powering. I taste the maple, but it is not syrupy. Great finish. I wish I had bought more than one bottle. Sorry but not even sure where I bought it. Probably Total Wine.
Dec 26, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by Rifugium from North Dakota

Dec 21, 2017
 
Rated: 3.55 by Zazzi82 from Tennessee

Dec 18, 2017
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Reviewed by ordybill from Georgia

3.74/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from the tap into a tulip glass. The appearance is a semi clear brown color with an almost non existent head. The aroma is maple. The taste follows the nose.
Dec 14, 2017
 
Rated: 3.83 by sohearn from Alabama

Dec 03, 2017
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Reviewed by avalon07 from South Carolina

3.34/5  rDev -9.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
L: Poured from a bottle to a pint glass. Had a medium brown color and a hazy texture. There was a small amount of creamy, off white head that quickly dissipated. Fair lacing.

S: A kind of underwhelming aroma of pecans, malt, bourbon, maple syrup, and vanilla.

T: Tasted of a whole lot of malt (very much omnipresent), a tinge of bourbon (not nearly enough), a little bit of vanilla, some pecans, a hint of maple syrup, and a bready quality. This is a great idea for a flavor, but it doesn't come off. None of the ingredients seem to be powerful enough. A little weak.

F: A decent amount of carbonation with a dry finish. Medium-bodied.

O: Kind of a missed opportunity with this beer. Could have been a bit better.
Nov 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.16 by jaketaz from Florida

Nov 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.39 by animal69 from Louisiana

Oct 31, 2017
Bourbon Street Maple Pecan from Abita Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 137 ratings