Megaton Maple
Ocelot Brewing Company

 

 

 

On tap:
Had this once before without rating/reviewing. If memory serves, the maple is coming out more at this point.

Pours a mahogany with perhaps a light haze. Spots of lacing from a thin ring.

Nose is mostly maple, sweet and enticing. The base comes through more nutty and generically more of a porter, to make a blurry distinction. Some light char, dark toast and nuts balance the earthy maple sweetness.

Feel is very light for a stout, maybe even a little for a porter. I might go a notch up if this weren't listed as a maple stout. I'd expect the sweetness to add some body.

Taste is a bit more earthy, with a woody bitterness to balance to maple (that isn't as sweet as the nose would lead you to believe).

I think my impressions fall in line with the first time I had this with these caveats: the maple came out better, without being cloying or too overwhelming; countering that, it seemed even more watery.

Re-brand this a porter and get just a little more body in it, and I think we get another quarter point out of this. The feel really seems to be the anchor slowing this one down.

Very strong sweet maple smell but a mild sweet taste. Smells like pancakes tastes like a sweet stout.

 

 

Tons of maple, light smoke

 

 

 

The beer has a nice, moderate maple note that blends well with the other stout notes. It gives the beer a very nice brown sugar note mixed with a light dark chocolate and light bitter hop note. The problem is the maple is fairly overpowering and edges out the other notes a little bit.