Allagash Curieux

Bottle at The Map Room. Pours a hazy gold with a foamy white head. Spicy yeasts permeate throughout the aroma. Light fruits and plenty of oak join in the taste. Interestingly, I did not get as much Bourbon out of this as others seem to have. In fact, I don’t believe I would have thought they used Bourbon barrels to age this if it were not on the bottle. Finishes nice and warm and is quite tasty.

Finally got a second bottle of this, so that I could drink one of them. Cork was hard to get out, like any Allagash beer I’ve had. The aroma is sweet and tells of some bourbon. The pour is rather hazy with a thin dissapearing white head. As for the taste, it was a little more smooth on the taste than the tripel, but has a bit of a burbon bite on the finish. The tastes throughout are of oak, vanilla and some spice here and there, the bourbon really comes out on the finish. I like Bourbon, so I liked this beer.

Bottle: Poured a hazy (real hazy, I just can’t see through my glass) golden color ale with a medium bubbly white head with minimum retention. Aroma of bourbon is quiet easy to detect but also some real funky yeast is present which remind of a saison or even a lambic without the sourness though. Taste is a bit too sharp in alcohol at first, which kind of ruin it for me since I don’t like the warming feeling. But you get used to it and it seems to disappear (or I might just be getting drunk) and then I can see some traces of a nice abbey tripel with a strong yeast profile, which provide a farmhouse side that I really enjoyed. Overall, probably not something I would go for on a regular basis but I still enjoyed. If I was to rate on experiment alone though, I would have rated this much higher since I appreciated the fact that Allagash tried to do something different.

From 750mL bottle. Pours a pale, cloudy gold with no head and very minimal lace. Nose of bourbon, honey and a hint of white wine. Taste is a big bourbon flavor upfront, followed by the sweetness of a Triple with a bourbon burn in the finish. The two flavors, bourbon and Triple, never really blend together. Interesting, but I think a different whiskey barrel, or better yet a single malt, would have made a better partner to this otherwise superb Triple.

Bottle. Hazy golden colour with a small white head. Sweet malty aroma with hints of alcohol and wood. Sweet malty and fruity flavor. Oak flavor too. Sweet woody finish with some warming alcohol.

Hot with lots of bourbon. Small notes of clear sweet fruit but largely overpowered by bourbon. I don’t see why chucking everything in bourbon is supposed to improve it, but I’ve had enough tasty barrel-aged beers to make me keep working my way through the duds. The one good thing about this beer was the heavy oakiness. If they could get the oak into the fruity trippel without the damned bourbon it might be very tasty.

Hazy golden colour with a small white head.Sweet malty and fruity aroma with notes of wood and alcohol. Sweet fruity flavor with a clear note of wood and a warming alcohol finish.

Poured a golden color with a nice white head. Aroma was fruity and sweet with some spices. Flavor was nice too, a hint of the oak was in there and it was very smooth, and alcohol was hidden pretty well, I really enjoyed this brew.