Allagash Four

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Bottle. Unclear medium red brown color with a average fizzy fair lacing mostly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sugar, light hoppy and yeast, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, syrupy, carbonation is osft, finish feel is light alcoholic.

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is very alcoholic combined with notes of over ripe fruits, and a bit of whiskey. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of alcohol, which leaves a bite in the mouth, but also with notes of over ripe fruits and lighter notes of prunes and spices, leading to a slightly bitter end. To me it would be even better if it was a bit more spicy.

(Bottle 75 cl) Slightly hazy, dark amber with an off-white head. Complex, fruity and quite vinous aroma. Solid body with lots of fruit and sweetish caramel. Very complex, vinous, sherry-like flavours with a rather heavy alcoholic finish. 080107

Bottled at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Lightly hazy copper colour, small head. Vinous and highly caramelly. Sweet and full bodied with clean, dense, rounded mouthfeel. Warming, brady and toffeeish with notes of cherry brandy and white pepper. Gets a bit syrupy and thick. The sweetness is more evident here than in most Belgian examples, making it less attractive.

Bottled. Hazy ambery brown colour with a small beige head. Aroma is raisins, wood, resins, mild yeast and also being rather strong on the malty times. Flavour is rather siilar along with alcohol and some syrupy notes. Gets more balanced and bodied once it warms up a bit.

Hazy to unclear amber with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel, dark overripe fruits, yeast and a few signs of alcohol. Flavor had roasted malt, overripe plums, figs, dates, caramel, yeast and hops. Finished sweet and full. Towards the end I had warming alcohol to finish the experience.

UPDATED: APR 16, 2011
Date: August 20, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: amber with small floating particles, whispy beige head
Aroma: hot sweet malt aroma with a nice fruity edge
Flavor: light rich fruit malt flavor

Date: March 08, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: trappeze
Score: 3.0 to 3.3
Appearance: cloudy burnt orange, fine cream head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: light sweet fruity aroma with a peach appricot character
Flavor: rich fruity flavor, light earthy character adds a bit too much balance, touch of spicyness adds complexity

Date: June 07, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
great fruity character but still a bit too much bitterness that offers great balance but dries out the fruit too much,

Date: March 26, 2011
Mode: cask
Source: the porter
Appearance: clear amber, frothy beige head
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma, light phenolic spicyness
Flavor: rich fruity flavor, pears and apricots, light earthyness tempers the sweetness, a nice dose of spicyness adds depth

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ** /4

Surprisingly mediocre offering from what really good brewer. Copper-tan colour. Aroma is alcohol, grapes, clove and yeast. This doesn’t come together very well and does not offer anything that stirs the senses. Dryish palate. Some maltiness and a little bit of fruitiness. By the numbers quad.