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Bourbon Street Maple Pecan
Abita Brewing Co.
- 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:
- 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:
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
3.69/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Sep 19, 2015
More User Ratings:
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
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"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
Rated by Beerucee from Texas
4/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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, 2018Reviewed 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
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, 2017Reviewed 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
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, 2017Reviewed 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
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, 2017S: 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.
Bourbon Street Maple Pecan from Abita Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
137 ratings
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