Allagash Four

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Trappist glass

Sampled at Barrios’ Sausage Fest 2010! Pours a hazy orange with ring of tan head. Nose of vanilla yogurt, raisins, candi sugar, mild alcohol esters. Flavor is very similar, but a little syrupy, and hides the alcohol amazingly well. Very good.

Pours a clear amber with slight white head. Very sugary sweet, hoppy, yeasty, malty flavor. Very complex aroma. Taste is very sweet but very well balanced by the abundance of hops and malts. Very sticky. Interesting beer.

Pours a lacing beige head with a copper-ruby body. Aromas of pineapple, mango, and bubblegum. Flavors of dried fruit, citrus hops, red wine, dough. Finish is sticky and dry.

Dark amber in color... Aroma of candi sugar and alcohol... Flavor is sweet of candi sugar but not terribly complex... Alcohol content is noticeable but the sweetness helps conceal it... Decent but not the best for its genre

Golden color with a tiny white head that disappears rapidly to leave scant bubbles and great lacing. Aroma of freshly rising bread dough. Flavor begins with orange peel and coriander, progresses to a nice sourness and finishing with a bitter tone. Great body, almost chewy. A wonderful brew, especially on cask.

Very nice balance of alcohol, malts, and hops. This beer hits a good Belgain Abbey blonde. Nice orange, citruis, and bittering hops. Yeast flavors are like a heffeweizen.

Pours a copper amber color, nice white head. A sweet yeast aroma. Flavor is a lot of malt with a very distinct bitterness. This beer isn’t overly yeasty, strikes a good balance with the malts.

0.75l - Red/orange liquid, no head, sour nose. Butterscotch on the palate, liked it better as it warmed. Not a miss but not a hit either.