Allagash Curieux

75 cl bottle. Hazxy yellow color, white head. Oaky aroma, potato peel, sourish notes. Malty flavor, yeast, a bit bready and with oaky notes.

Bottle, thanks Marsiblursi. Hazy golden, medium white head. Fruity malt aroma with woddy notes and coconut. Yeasty and a bit spicy, with notes of vanilla. Medium bodied, quite smooth, but with a lively carbonation. Very well balanced. A very interesting tripel.

Bottle(thanx to Marsiblursi) Hazy yellow colour, medium creamy head. Aroma is dominated of fruits: Orange, a bit sour/Citron, reminds med of a Cantilon in the aroma "Picture", that´s a compliment to the brewer! Flavor is Sparkling, viny,sour, and complex flavor, but has lots of fruits in it.Nice fuol body, and a long nice finish. Thake a bow folks! for the brewer!!

I must be a little vague here...tastes like an Abbey tripel with bourbon in it. Aroma of vanilla and yeast. Pour was a medium to dark brown with no head. Tastes like a tripel with an alcohol burn of boubon and wood and malt in the back. Hard to put in words after you split 2 bottles of this with a friend, but there you go.

August 2006 bottling...Big bourbon taste, mouthfeel somewhat less than fizzy, this one is a lot like the Odyssey, only not as dark and rich. Flavors of vanilla and wood, some apricot. Overall not bad, I may re-rate on a later date.

These notes apply to the Jim Beam bourbon barrel version. 750 at the Seattle International Beerfest. Smells bourbony without a doubt, but there’s sweet caramel and candi there too. The bourbon settles out after it’s been open for a few minutes. Cloudy orange/light amber pour. Thin off-white head. Medium, somewhat oily body, lightish carb. Bits of hay, lemon, and pear on the mid-palate. Tangy, sugary cling with oxidized apples on the finish.

[75 cl corked bottle] Pale, hazy orange colour. Thick, creamy head. Strong bourbon vanilla aroma. Flavour is......well...like a typical Belgian Abbey Tripel aged in bourbon barrels; fruity and yeasty with strong bourbon vanilla character. Well crafted, sure, but I really don’t like bourbon.

Sampled most recently on draft at Capone’s (Norristown, PA) during the Allagash promo on 6/19/07. Hazy yellow, with a moderate sized off-white head. Complex aroma, fruit, oak, whisky, and yeast most notable. The wood aging adds some interesting flavors, like tropical fruit, whiskey, oak, alcohol, and yeast. Delicious beer, but I think the alcohol overwhelms the other more delicate flavors.