Allagash Four

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Thanks to my wife for letting me rate her beer. Pours amber with a foamy white head. Aroma is cherries, hops and a mild sweetness. Flavor is bitter and grassy with a substantial alcohol kick. Mouthfeel is fairly light.

Yes, its sugary sweet and should be so because its a Quad. But enjoyable? Well if you love sweet sweet Belgians, this is your beer. Pure malt sugariness, you can taste the kandi sugar in every sip. Pours a cloudy copper with minimal white head that accumulates later. Flavor is figs, raisins, prunes, dates. Exactly what a Belgian Triple should be, and being a Quad, it is even more so. But for me, this just wasn’t my beer.

Pours a murky apricot colour with a puffy off white head. The aroma is of candied fruits, jagery, slightly tart yeast notes, cherry, and mild peppery spice. The flavour is aromatic and complex, with dark fruits, tart yeast, caramel, oak? and dry aromatic malts. The hops are herbal, not grassy. The finish is long, spicy, aromatic and bone dry. I appreciate that the beer is not overly sweet and that it is balanced and dry.

Like Westvleteren 12 toned down. Not quite as flavorful or warming as Westy. However this is a rich, complex, just plain good beer. Lots of candi sugar, dark fruits, and Belgian yeast. It is just about everything you could ask for.

Draft. An amber brown body with a 1 finger tan head. Huge malty dark fruit nose fig and a vinous caramel nectar. Spices maple sweet and very enjoyable.

pours a mahogany brown with orange tint, a small beige head, and some lacing. smell is of pepper, spice, caramel, malt, and dark fruits. taste is creamy, caramel, dark fruits, some woodiness to it, malt, and roasted nuts, has a slightly bitter ending.

Bottle. Sweet ripe fruit aroma, with alcohol. Reddish copper body, small tan head. Flavor, like most Allagash Belgian-style offerings, is exceedingly sweet, bordering on cloying. Fruit, malts. Alcohol and sweetness in the finish. Too sweet for me.

Pours with an amber hue that sits below a light brown head that lasts - the appearance is quite good-looking. Good lacing as well. Aroma is of dark fruits, molasses, and caramel with a tad bit of strawberries. Flavor has a sweet beginning, and a sweet ending. The dark fruits and caramel notes come through very strongly in the taste. The other dominant taste is brandy in the beer. Lively carbonation.