Alright, back to the fall seasonals after a brief respite. It's a bit different though. Instead of being brewed with pumpkins, The Bruery's Autumn Maple is brewed with yams. Throw those yams (17 pounds per barrel!) into the brew kettle along with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup and then fermented with a Belgian yeast and you've got a recipe to make me sit up and take notice. To the beer!
Autumn Maple pours a deep chestnut brown. Ruddy orange highlights shine through the cloudy elixir when the glass is held to light. a finely bubbled layer of tan head recedes pretty quickly.
Subtle chocolate malt aromas lead the way on the nose. Sugary candied molasses and Belgian yeasty esters follow. Complexity comes in afterwards with fruity notes of plum, date, and a touch of licorice. The spice finally comes out on the back end with hints of . Very subtle, very complex, I like it a lot.
Autumn Maple leads off quite spritzy for such a full, rich, hearty ale. Creamy malty notes of toffee and a subtle dry chocolate are complimented by plenty of spiciness with notes of cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg and fruity hints of date and a touch of banana. There's a whole lot to like about this beer. There's some great flavor and complexity here but unfortunately a lot of it is covered up by a ton of boozy heat.
I think a bit of time spent in the cellar would do this beer a whole lot of good. There's some fantastic flavor here. It's hearty, rich, there's some great complexity. It's a shame really because i think that boozy heat is obscuring a great deal of that flavor. Some time in the cellar ought to mellow a bit of the heat and allow some more complexity to shine though.
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