Allagash Musette

(on bottle) Rustyred, white head. Aomas from cranberries, wood and mash. Sweet ´n´soft mouthfeel. No real peat or tar here, gets very sweet in the finish, so sweet not even the 10% can balance it out.

Small sample off of a friend’s 750ml bottle. Pours almost a dark mahogony in color. The aroma is nutty and spicey, a mix of anisete and cloves. This beer has a syrupy sweetness, but in a good way almost like a vanilla/honey flavor. It has a full body ending in a warm, creamy finish. Very good.

pours a nice brown color with a medium sized off-white head. nutty, caramel, toast, brown sugar, licorice aroma. flavors brown sugar, honey coated nuts, caramel, spices.....very brown. sugary. i don’t notice any smoked notes. i would consider this more of a dubbel or brown ale but excellent either way.

Batch 260 - 2006 Vintage - Received via trade, with whom though I can’t recall. I’m usually down with most beers Allagash produces and that didn’t change with this one either. It reminded me in so many ways of a barrel aged Maudite (if that were to ever exist) it wasn’t funny, and then to find out it’s supposed to be a Scotch Ale?

The beer pours out medium brown color, cloudy with a nice two-finger thick head. Aroma is decidedly dark fruits, spices, bourbon and wood. The beer has a slight prickly mouthfeel. Flavors are dark fruits, a caramel-malt yeastiness, and more bourbon and oak notes. This was an above average beer and surprisingly sweet.

Bottle. Pour is Light brown with the scent of scotch and fruit pear/apple. Flavor is malty, strong hop character, oak. Very drinkable for 10%.