Year of New Beer: Salted Maple 10W-40, Hi-Wire Brewing Co (Asheville)

Written By: Dion on 06/12/2019

Fairly underwhelming nose...mostly chocolate with some roasty malts, maybe a touch of vanilla, and probably more caramel than maple. On the tongue,, this just doesn't match up to the label description very well at all for me. I do get chocolate and a bit of salt, with some lactose sweetening at the end. But I get pretty much zero maple, and only a hint of vanilla. What I do get a lot of is some weird fruit thing, cherry almost. So much so that I went back to the label to see if I had missed it. But it's not there. Except it is, which just makes this miss the mark a bit for me...just sorta odd overall.