The Maine Thing
Strangebird Beer

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From:
Strangebird Beer
 
New York, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
6.5%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
4.3 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 17, 2025
Added:
Nov 17, 2025
Wants:
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The Maine Thing is a Sour Saison collaboration between Strangebird and Collage Cellars. For this beer, we blended Collage's sour beer that was inoculated with wild yeast and bacteria isolated in Maine, with Strangebird's barrel aged Pillowhead, resulting in a balanced harmony of acidity, white wine notes, and wood.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.3/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This one pours a golden yellow color, with a small quickly disappearing head, and not much lacing.

This smells pretty oaky, with white wine, peach, and lemon candy.

Cold right out of the fridge, this presents an easy going, citrusy, and quite oaky wine-laden wild ale – approachable and quite drinkable. As it warms, some deeper and more interesting complexities come out – there’s a sort of prickly and herbal funk here that really reminds me of lambic.

This is light bodied, with a pleasant and not too intense tartness to it, and a nice drinkability.

I just really love that I have a local brewery that does things like this – it’s so wonderful.
Nov 17, 2025