Allagash Grand Cru

Batch 20. Pours with a large, fluffy, tan head over a clear copper body. Aroma is grassy, with coriander, Belgian Candi Sugar, alcohol and bread. Taste is candi sugar, grass, bread, and slightly metallic. Lively carbonation, dry mouthfeel.

Bottle at Coles, Buffalo NY. Deep orange golden poiur. Aromas of Fruitiness, slight clove. Belgian yeastiness & spiciness. Very drinkable & one of my new favorites

Pours golden with an orange rich haziness and a light beige head. Smell is sweet and yeasty with light spice notes. Taste is sweet caramel, belgian yeast and body is full and creamy. Just too sweet and yeasty for me...

Bomber. Pours dark orange with a healthy head. Aroma of yeast, malt, and clove. Flavor has classic Allagash softness, yet it is simultaneously spicy throughout. I tasted soda cracker and dried fruit initially, complemented by mid-palate earthiness. Palate is characteristically “soft”, yet the finish is very dry. Overall a well-balanced Allagash offering, though perhaps not their best.

Cork almost took my face off. I took off the cork and it shot inches from my face, hit the ceiling, spraying beer allover my lap and macbook. Kind of an orangish amber pour with thick white head. Sweet, malty aroma. Flavor is pears, banana and spice, with a bit of bitterness in the back of the throat. Almost an herbal bitter finish. The sweetness is subdued, which I appreciate. Nice, well carbonated, typically belgian mouthfeel. Overall, good.

What a warming brew. Smell the sweet malts. Taste the balance of spice. Good look and feel upon drinking. Great brew.

Bouteille de 330 ml. Nos yeux observent une bière de couleur ambrée-orangée qui possède un col de mousse modeste. Au nez on respire des arômes de raisins, de fleur, de lilas, de citron, de pain, de pruneaux et de cassis. En bouche le corps est moyen avec une effervescence moyenne. On goûte des saveurs de cassis, de raisins, d’épices, de pain, de fleurs et de grain torréfiés. La finale présente une légère pointe d’alcool et d’amertume. Excellent

22oz bottle. Pours a burnished copper with a beige head. Leaves nice lacing down the glass and the head has decent retention. Nose is pretty spicy, not what I was expecting. Coriander, cinnamon, and a little bit of raisin. Taste is a good match to the aroma. Alot of yeast spiciness but the there is no typical belgian banana esters, a very clean floral hoppiness on the backend, very light bitterness. Not as sweet and complex as others similar in style (we had this back to back with the St. Somewhere Lectio Divinia and found it to be superior) Very solid well crafted American Belgian.