3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at Uber. Pours cloudy dark copper with a dense and lacy beige head. Full body minimal carbonation. Sweet nutty brown sugar and malt taste with a fairly assertive finish for a quad. Smooth, balanced and rather nice for an American quad.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled at the Seattle IBF 09. Poured a murky bronze. Very wet - almost a quencher, which was astonishing to me given the 10% abv. It’s malt-driven, but definitely seems more like a malty barleywine than an Abt/Quad. Some wood and brown sugar, and it covers the alcohol very well. Nowhere near worth the price of the bottle, though.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
dark amber pour with lasting offwhite head, one finger. aroma is sweet malt and some caramel apple. the same great allagash yeasty aroma that ive learned to love from their stuff. a little bit of booziness. mm some nice burnt sugar notes and some subdued alcohol. sweetness lingers on the tongue. pretty nice, which is wha tIve come to expect from allagash.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle - I’ve had this bottle for a couple years. Pours mostly clear amber/red with a thin off-white head. The aroma is yeasty and malty with ample dark fruit, particularly cherries. The flavor is very sweet and malty with dark fruit notes. It’s full bodied and very flavorful, with mostly buried alcohol. The sweetness carries right through into the finish. Very enjoyable.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at the Thirsty Monk, Asheville, 6/27. So, this was a tight quad, as you would pretty much expect from Allagash. I’m not going to describe all the flavors for the 545th time on this page, suffice to say it’s a good beer and you should TRY IT.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Intensely malty and alcoholic. Sweet raisins dominate the taste. Mild flavors of yeast and nuts as well. Finishes a little too alcoholic. Full bodied and syrupy. Not an easy drinker for sure. Not my favorite for the style.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750 Bottle aged roughly 1.5 years. Cork flew up and hit the ceiling the moment the cage was untwisted, very dangerous. Pours a clear dark glowing amber with a small frothy off-white head. Aroma is quite oxidized, some raisins, toffee, honey, just a touch of alcohol. Flavor is the same, oxidized, alcohol, toffee, boozy green raisins, honey like sweetness, a touch grassy, cashews, light yeast. The body is nice, lots of fine uniform carbonation, medium/full bodied, sticky but aged. An ’okay’ quad.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a deep chestnut brown. Aroma is a beautifully deep complex set of sugars and Belgian phenolics. Taste is complex burnt sugars, dates, beets, and other dark sugars/fruits. Very complex and interesting, however very bitter for a Belgian. Leaves a nice little sour tang in your mouth, as is common in many nice quads. A really nice quad, could’ve used some more age (already a year+??).
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