Brownie Points
Maplewood Brewery & Distillery

 

Pours a beautiful mahogany brown and sports a creamy tan head that provides moderate lacing. Beautiful brown ale.

The nose features a little bit of nuts and lots of cocoa and vanilla, and those are the prominent flavors on the taste.

The mouthfeel is medium and creamy, perfect for the beer. This is a worthy brown ale.

1/7/26 The Garage Bar & Sandwiches (Chicago, IL) Draft Notes: $6 ($2 off) 16 oz shaker pint draft pour. English Brown Ale, 5.7% ABV.

Appearance: Casacading light tan ale rises as this nitro pour settles, generous creamy think white light tan head. Looks creamy and delicious. 4.5

Aroma: Dark roast coffee, roast malt, caramel and toffee. The Bold and the Beautiful. 4.5

Taste: Deep rich dark roast malt, milk chocolate, chocolate milk ish. Rich and decadent. 4.5

Mouthfeel: Creamy and luxurious, drinks light and easy. Sweet and dry, roast malt helps keep excesses in check. Roast malt caramel finish. 4.75

Overall: This is an excellent beer. Nitro perhaps improves it, just living the entire experience. 4.75

 

 

Fall flavors are in full swing. Departing from the lightness of pilsner, and the floral IPA, and the elegant oktoberfest and even departing from the pumpkin, Maplewood embraces deep fall by scoring some brownie points with malt lovers.

Brownie Points pours with a full coffee-brown appearance while capping off with a frothy light tan head. As a robust scent of toast, cocoa, coffee and cream swirl about the nose, the first sip leads to sweeter impressions of caramel, vanilla, toffee, chocolate and sweet cream. Balanced with toasty, roasty coffee-like character, a tightness in taste brings a broad bitterness that feed into the coffee flavor even more.

Smooth in body, creamy and rounded, the session wraps up with a snappy dryness and a high rate of drinkability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16 oz can (canned on 09/13/21) into a pint glass.

A: Clear dark brown color with a two-finger foamy tan head that eventually receded to a thin film.

S: Roasted malts, cocoa, faint vanilla.

T: Lot more here than in the nose! Vanilla comes out more but doesn't dominate and is nicely complemented by roasted malt, toffee, caramel, and chocolate.

F: Medium bodied and creamy, but might be better served with a little more carbonation.

 

 

Canned 9/13/21; drank 10/11/21 @ the Yarchives.

Semi-opaque brown orange appearance.

An even pour yielded a nice, noisy tan head; frothy lace.

Creme brulee & acorn notes in the nose.

Creamy, medium thick mouthfeel.

Vanilla syrup, caramel & acorn flavors.

Smelled better than it tasted, but a nice fall/early winter sipper.