Allagash Curieux

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

This is one of my favorite Allagash brews. Smooth sweet oak and vanilla. Lots of bourbon but the malts and hints of bitter mask some of the alcohol. Some bready body with hints of spices as well.

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2010 Getting notebook online. Bottle. Pours a golden color. Smell of oak and bourbon very strong. Flavors of oak and vanilla. A good amount of yeast flavor too. Not too bad! Re-tasted a lot of vinous characters, some nice sweet fruits, peach apricots.

Bomber, bottled 7/2005 and cellared since 10/2005. Poured a translucent honey orange with just a tiny bit of head. Aromas of whiskey, caramel, some heavy bread notes. Mouthfeel is heavy, with yeast and whiskey coming out in the forefront.

Pours clear orange / amber with a patchy off-white head. The aroma is creamy with spice and a nice blend of tripel malt and bourbon barrel aging. There is also vanilla and significant oak from the barrel aging. Medium smooth body that is slick with mildly sharp carbonation. The flavor starts smooth with lots of vanilla, oak, some bourbon, phenolic spice and some lush tripel malt. The finish has more tripel malt, but the sweetness is offset by the dryness of oak, lots of spice and some abv, but it is mild tasting considering it is 11%. This is quite well done.

time for a party, a fresh bottle of barrel aged trippel, bought at the downtown specs ... . bottled on June 8th 2008 ... pours a gold colour, has a ring of small bubbles, average lacing ... is somewhat mead like i tell ya what ... is a tasty beverage, thank you..

January 2007 vintage. Pours hazy golden orange with minimal white head. The smell of boubon dominates. There is also a strong aroma of bready Belgian yeast. Flavors of bourbon, yeast, vanilla and oak. There is definately a tripel hinding somewhere underneath all that bourbon. Medium body with lively carbonation and a creamy mouthfeel. It’s a good beer, but the bourbon is just too overpowering for my tastes.

Tap at Sunswick. Poured a dark amber. The nose was on the weak side, or was it the glass that i detected? Of course the bourbon was noticed, that’s what stood out. At first, I was not too impressed, all I tasted was the bourbon, and some wood notes. I found the mouthful fairly thin. Mind you, I really like the Allagash triple. The bourbon really dominates, and hides the flavors of the triple. It did start to grow on me. The finish had a bit of a bite to it.

Bottle courtesy of Tony @ OTH. Pours an opaque blonde, white head. Aroma is hoppy, yeasty with some underlying sweetness. Taste is very sweet, has a good presence of oak and fruits (apple/apricot), gariny, thick mouthfeel, vanilla notes. One outstanding abbey beer.