Allagash Four

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

Serve in Trappist glass

(750ml bottle from Whole Foods Hillcrest-batch 24). Pours an orange-copper color with light tan head. Aroma is candied sugar, cotton candy, turbinado. Taste is sweet with some bitterness and an unfortunate metallic note. Medium bodied with a slick texture. Finish is somewhat dry, with a little carbonation fizz on the tongue. Alcohol is noticeable, but its pleasant. In spite of the metallic note, this is a pretty nice beer. I would consider this more often if the price was lower (St. Bernardus Abt 12 is several dollars cheaper).

On tap at Churchkey. Pretty almond colored pour with a vivacious head. I like that this beer doesn’t pretend to be Rochefort 10 or the like; it is decidedly a lighter quad in its complexities. The dark fruit characteristics to me bring out more candied sugars, red plum, nectarine, and light vinous notes, as opposed to the rich fig/raisin of those darker quads. Palate is sweet but not cloying, and full mouthfeel meshes with a soft but subtly present effervescence. As usual a very nice effort from Allagash.

750ml bottle in a Trappist glass. Pours amber/brown with a thick, lacy, light beige head. Aroma of caramel and slightly roasted malts, spicy yeast, and floral slightly grassy hops. Flavor about the same with the yeast and caramel strong. Average texture. A pretty good quad.

Bottle poura a hazy brown with a thin off white head. Scent is dark fruit, yeast and wood. Taste is dark fruit, wood and bready.

Allagash Four Ale Pours coppery with light brown highlights. Smallish tan head with good retention. Aroma is big and bready with candi sugar and dark fruit aromas on the underside. Alcohol became present as the beer warmed. Flavor was smooth fresh baked bread and mildly sweet candi sugar. Boozy and packed a punch. Mild hop note on the finish provided a nuanced earthiness. Very good, but too damn expensive to buy more than occasionally.

Dark, not a lot of head. Aroma is of fruit and followed by sweet flavors of dark fruit.

On tap at unos in neshaminy. Aroma of dark fruits, yeast. Taste is biting, alcohol, fruit, yeast, sweet malt, vinegar. Not told what it was, I thought it was a russian river beer. Should tell you enough. Surprisingly good.

[Bottle] shared by Dan. Thanks! Pours clear burnt caramel with a small soapy white head. Aroma is light fruit snack, mint, sweet malt. Flavor is light cheese, fruity yeast, a little alcohol, lightly grainy and bitter. Finish is balanced between sweet and bitter.