Maine Maple Sunday
Lone Pine Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

Pours opaque, jet black in color with 1/4 inch head. Taste is big maple with roasted coffee. Sweet, roasty, light bodied with moderate carbonation. Another winner from Lone Pine. Maple sugar really shines as the beer warms, but never becomes cloying. Glad I picked up a four pack. Really like what Lone Pine is producing.

Canned 2/4/20

Pours almost pitch black with 3 fingers of a frothy beige head that reduces slowly to a finger, great lacing

Rather muted aromas, but some nice caramel malts, a slight fruitiness, light maple in the end

More maple comes thru in the taste but not in the way I expected. Not as malty as I like my browns either, but the expected hops of the Americanized version come thru and are still nice

Pretty light body for the color, I thought this would be thick and sludgy, but it was quite medium in body, finishes slightly sticky

Overall not bad, but a solid brown, not sure if I'd get it again

 

A: Pours a deep reddish brown color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a thin cap

S: Toasted malt, maple, earthy hops, caramel, and some light nuttiness

T: Starts off with the toasted malt, grain, maple and lactose sweetness, and caramel. Goes into some of the earthy hops and light bready notes. Finishes with lingering maple and toasted malt

M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth from the oats

O: A good maple brown ale that fits the season very well. Maple Sunday is a big deal for most of New England so it works nicely with all the maple goodies around. Worth a drink

 

Pint can - dated 02/19/19 - poured into a snifter at 55F.

Pours a jet black, with the faintest little mahogany spots in the right lighting. A three-finger tan head builds up, and then quickly settles down, leaving a bare black top, and partial collar. No lacing or cling.

Nose: Roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee bean, vanilla, raisin, dates, and a faint floral note. Struggling to find any trace of maple. Smells like a light stout.

Palate: Lightly-to-moderately roasted barley malt, vanilla, sarsparilla bark, black coffee, and some more subtle floral notes. Had a real root beer vibe to it. Still not detecting any maple whatsoever. The sheer lack of sweetness is thr only thing that hints at this being a brown ale, rather than a stout. It's quite dry. Not super roasty cherry dry...just...dry. Very little sweetness. The finish continues on with charred malt, with slightly increasing bitterness that lingers for quite a while.

Mouthfeel/Body: Definitely feels like it's 5.1% ABV. It's crisp, and clean, but also rather thin, and even a bit watery. It's not a solid brown. It's a watery brown. Medium to above average effervescence, on point with what if exoect from a pilsner. Quite fizzy. Could definitely be drunk quickly, though. It's an easy drinker.

Overall: Lone Pine does some,incredible work with their hoppy beers. This one just misses the mark on every single level. It's thin, watery, boring, lacking in any and all complexity, and the whole theme that it's advertising (MAPLE) is just completely and utterly lacking altogether. It's just a mediocre watery brown. Maple beers have a tendency to disappoint me. This is no exception. Maybe maple is hard to work with. Maybe they're afraid of overdoing the maple. I don't know. I just haven't found a great maple beer. I'd pass on this, and sooner get a Maple Nipple from Lawson's.