Peak Maple Oat Ale
If we had our druthers, we’d add a new section so we could write about beer every week. Because we must confess, we are total and complete beer-o-philes. We live for the stuff. We even like weird beer-related memorabilia, like the random “How to open a beer with a [piece of paper, chainsaw, cellphone]” videos on YouTube or the fact that the doomed (and probably not beer-drinking) poet Anne Sexton wrote that “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” (Find more quotable beers at www.tastybrew.com.) Not that we’re alkies, mind you. But if we’re going to drink something, it’s going to be beer. And, preferably, organic.
Which is why Peak Organic warms our cockles with its seasonal introductions of fabulous artisan beers crafted with ingredients produced near its brewery in Portland, Maine. Their new Maple Oat Ale takes organic oats from a local granola company and maple syrup from a farm in nearby Vermont, and turns it into a delicious, warm and nutty brew with just the right amount of bitter to give it some bite. Plus, sales of Maple Oat Ale support Chef’s Collaborative, a national organization dedicated to promoting local, sustainable food.
