Allagash Curieux

Aroma of honey, sourness, bourbon, slightly fruity with hints of caramel and some white wine character. The palate starts lively and bright and transitions to a crisp oaky dryness on the tongue as swallowed. The taste starts out equally sweet and sour transitiioning to a pleasant honey taste, which is quickly replaced by the boubon flavor, transitioning again to a slightly sour oaky dryness and finishing with a lingering alcoholic warmth and peppery spicyness. This beer is in a word, complex.

Pours amber, slightly haziness with a tall soft off-white head. Very oaky aroma, lots of spices and a big sweet caramel and bourbon backing. The bourbon isn’t as strong as i was expecting, more of the dry oak flavor shows, the bourbon must just get mixed in with the sweetness. This beer feels very dry on the palate resulting from the high carbonation and the dry oak flavor. This beer has sat for a while so there was no excess alcohol flavors.

Bottle. Hazy orange pour with a short white head. Aroma of coconut, oak, and other bourbon elements. Flavors of yeast, vanilla, oak, and coconut. Medium bodied...nutty...decent carbonation though a bit watery at times with a dry/sweet finish.

Aroma is almost pure oak. Slight hint of fruit. Taste is very wooden. The oak Bourbon flavors give off its characters. the malts are soaked in the Bourbon-esque flavor. giving this a lively beer, to sip.

The aroma is tremendous with a whole lot of bourbon and a decent amount of malt, wood, and yeast. The appearance is is deep gold and cloudy with an orange tint to it. The flavor is strong and sweet and very much like the aroma. The palate is smooth with an alcohol finish. Overall it’s well made but to strong to be a session beer. This is more like liquor.

750ml Bottle: Aroma is heavily sweet. Smells of bourbon, vanilla, apples, and oak. Poured amber in color with a small white head that diminished quickly. Small lacing. Hazy. Sparkling. Flavor is heavily sweet and alcoholic. Tastes of alcohol, bourbon, spices, and cloves. Full body. Thick texture. Lively carbonation. Long alcohol finish. Alcohol is warming. Overall, could use a little less alcohol flavor.

Pours a hazy golden with an off white head. Head retention is short and the head itself is fizzy. Aroma has elements of bourbon, oak, herb, and citrus. Flavor has a definite bourbon touch with a slight herbal and citrus background. Slightly dry, crisp,character at the finish.

this beer had one of the most complex aromas i’ve ever had the pleasure of diving into. caramelization of sugars, dry white wine, pear and raspberry are all present in the nose and are coupled with the tastes of hay, caramel, oak, bourbon in an earthly yet refined beer. the color is golden with a white head and the mouthfeel is crisp and refreshing.