Allagash Four

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

Serve in Trappist glass

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UPDATED: OCT 16, 2004 Brown/orange color with a yeast aroma. Very nice spicy taste, with some fruit as well. Finishes a little bitter, with a hop taste. Really well done, easy to drink, and should age well. If I can get enough, and hold off drinking it, I'll age some.

Pick up a bottle of this if you can. Wonderful yeasty, malty aroma over a light brown pour. Heavy alcohol is masked by some fruity notes (strawberries?)Wll hopped for a begian. Hard to put down, but at 10%, you shouldn't drink much of this one. A classic, unique in every way.

UPDATED: APR 30, 2004 Heavy fruity aromas. Bubble gum. Touch of spice. Nicely hopped creating a good balance with the fruit and malt. Touch of sweetness. Carbonation gives the beer fairly lively and refreshing texture for such a high ABV beer. I’ll agree with jeffc666 and label this “dangerously drinkable” as well – almost like sody pop. Could use some “grown-up” complexity, but I am enjoying it and need to slow down and drink this 750 a little more slowly. I too will go back try to pick up a bottle for aging.

Nice brownish color. It could use some aging. Aroma of hops and bubble gum. Really good beer. Very hoppy flavor. It finishes sweet. Will get getting some more to age.

(Consumed at 60F) Beautiful sparkling red-orange body. The tan rocky head creates excellent glass lacing. The aroma is sweet with tons of yeast and dark fruit. Flavor-wise this beer is beautiful, sweet candi sugar, some spicy hops come into the picture about mid way through. The body is medium-full with slight bitterness and a little bit of a alcohol numbing. Overall an outstanding efort from Allagash. Not as complex as the Belgian Abts but dangerously drinkable. That 10% ABV is pretty uch totally hidden.

This is worthy of some extended aging. Nice Brownish orange color. Aroma is a menage of hops, bubble gum (which I would attribute to being young), and candi. Flavor is bold. Sticky sweetness blended with lots of hop flavor, and a tad bit of bitterness. Finishes long and sweet. Will be buying a couple more.

An American craftbrewing tour de force. Aroma is plum preserves with a powerful whack of Belgian yeast, slight vinegar, and a powdery CO2 quality when sniffed in the snifter. Somewhat pheremonic. Tremendous appearance -- tall, heavy Belgian bottle with gold lettering. Dark oak colored brew with off-white microbubble head that coats the sides of the glass nicely. Superbly balanced. Initially lightly sweet, with dark candy flavors. It has an almost herbal bittering. Finish is lightly nut-bitter, which persists for quite a while. Sometimes it was almost too smooth. If I had a minor complaint, it was that it sometimes grew watery or vacant in its smoothness. Be sure to drink it warm for the full body and complexity. If the Allagash guys see this and have a few cases which are about to expire, I'll take them off your hands.

Interesting - I am the 4th rater of "4". Pours a dark walnut brown color with a tight off-white head - decent lacing. Multi-faceted aroma - fresh fruit basket, chewing tobacco, and pepper. Alcohol (10%)is hidden extremely well. Flavor, not as rich as I had hoped. Good, hearty maltiness, just a bit thin for a Quad. Has some Cascade hoppiness to it with grapefruit esences and a bit of cotton candy sugar sweetness. The aftertaste is a bit metallic however. Still a good American Quad though. Probably would do well with some aging - I just do not have the patience!

750ml at 9.79 a bottle but well worth it. enjoyed it in a chimay trappist glass. awesome aroma of malt, fruit, and alcohol. beautiful brown-orange color with a lasting creamy head and lasting carbonation. super mouthfeel, best i've had in a while. you can taste all the sugars and malt. yummy. The box that i took this bottle out of said bottled on march 12 2004. In my opinion, you can taste the lack of aging. The hop bite is very evident and is the only disapointment. this beer is good now, 2-3 years it'll be a contender with any quads and worth it's hefty price. oh, you will feel the alcohol in this one, no doubt about it, cheers.

UPDATED: APR 2, 2004 Woohoo, it’s pretty cool to be one of the first raters on a beer that is going to get a lot of exposure! I feel like I’m a Hollywood beer agent; See, see, see, I discovered this! Ahhhh I didn’t do shit, I just went to the store and bought an expensive bottle of beer; I’m the same old looser I’ve always been!

Pours with a foggy mahogany body and a small but dense off white head. The aroma is malty and yeast. Radiating notes of toffee, dates, raisins, and warm wheat bread covered with chopped almonds and honey butter are drawing me in.
The flavor, the flavor, Ohhhh the f-l-a-v-o-r!! Lets talk about a cornucopia filled with all the most wonderful dark fruits in North America….. and more! Plums, apricots to no end, gooey ripened dates rolled in brown sugar, mid-summer cherries those cherries that are plump and overly ripe… about to burst they’re so ripe and sweet. A fresh loaf of dark bread, pumpernickel or a toasty dark wheat but with tangerine zest baked in to add so citric quality; a peppery spiciness, a sprinkling of cardamom, and nutmeg. The creamy palate will lift your spirit and soften your soul…. Soooo very Nice!

I will be buying a few more bottle of this before it’s gone. I could do a side-by-side with any Trappist Quad and never know that this wasn’t a peer. A year in my cellar would add the most amazing complexity to a brew that is already an artesian compilation! Recommended