Allagash Coolship Red

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Clear ruby red colour, deminishing white head. Tart raspberry aroma, fruity, wood. Quite sour, tart flavour, raspberry vinegar. Finish raspberry, wood and light vanilla. Nice.
(From 37,5cL bottle @ De Nacht vd Grote Dorst, Eizeringen)

Funky earthy raspberries, over-ripe raspberries and cherries on the nose. Pours pinkish red with a thin white head. Tart raspberry upfront with sour cherry notes and tannins with hints of sweet fruit.

Bottle courtesy of BlessedBeBeer. Served in an Allagash tulip. Pours a beautiful pink-red with a niece very light pink head and good lacing. The nose carries some fresh raspberry with good funk and oak. Light sourness. Flavor has strong raspberry and light must. Faint oak. Good sourness. Light body with good carbonation and a dry finish. Boom.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2011 Bottle pour thanks to Dalzale! What a champ. Cork comes out with a fair pop, but no gushing. Pour is a slightly hazy light cherry red, with a spare white head an just a touch of lacing. Haze is due to this being the 4th pour....the first was crystal clear. Aroma is punchy tart raspberries, lots of fruit seeds, lightly funky. Lemony. Some light damp basement aromas as well hiding in there. Taste is saliva drawing sour, some papery notes, lots of fruity berry seeds. Fair bit of funk right in the middle, moving to some more jammy white fruit and finishing dry after a bit of sugaryness that seems kinda out of place, but I am just nitpicking here. Great beer.

[bottle] shared by dalzale. Thanks Greg! Pours a beautiful deep rosé color with a diminishing, effervescent head. Beautiful aroma of tart, fresh, underripe raspberries, light mineral quality, a little Brett funk, dry and lactic. Flavor is underripe, just barely bordering on medicinal, raspberry, nice tartness and acidity, but certainly not overpowering, quite dry but still has some body.

Bottle thanks to Avalon68 on BA! Crystal clear light strawberry pour, little ring of carbonation and a wonderful aroma of fresh tart raspberries. Flavor starts out with a little biting acidity, then mellows into more tart raspberries, cherry and nice lingering sour aftertaste. Well done.

Pour is slightly hazy red with thin to no white head, bottle big thanks to Greg! Aroma has notes of big fruity raspberries, raspberry seeds, vanilla, oak and woodiness, some cheesy funky, lactic acid tart notes, really nice and well balanced. Taste is big funky horse and barnyard, some slight farmhouse style funky notes as well, slight sweet raspberry balances well with a very dry oaky and tannic presence, slight lemony tart, finishes dry, oaky, funky and a slight sweetness again from the raspberry. Very, very nice.

The bottle gave a nice pop from the cork revealing ample carbonation. Pour from the bottle gave a somewhat murky bright red colored beer with some nice white head. The aromas were funky, earthy, cheesy. Raspberries pure clean and natural. Grape and berries in addition.Nice tartness with a balanced lactic quality. Flavors linger and remain on your palate for some time ending dry and not overly sweet or sticky.Very reminiscent of a great Belgian sour in my opinion. Really liked this beer very much .

375 ml. Bottle pour. Red color with a medium reddish white head. Raspberries come through great. Tart and refreshing. Awesome beer.

Bottle at a tasting at James’ place. Pours a lovely hazy pink hued garnet and ruby color with a thin soft pinkly tinged white head that deflates quickly. Enormous raspberry up front, dusty and fresh, turns into a bit of vinegar and a touch of old wood. Medium bodied, big fluffy carbonation, soft fruit, gentle acidity. Lingering acidity, funky yeast. Really nice stuff.