Allagash Grand Cru

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Babblebelt tasting @ Logans- Batch 2- Pours a murky brown copper color, nice sized off white head. Aroma is musty, grape juice, caramel. Flavor is sweet, and malty, balanced well with dark malts and hops.

Bottle, batch #7. Pours a fairly clear orange-amber color. Big, dense head forms initially and fades down to a smallish head that last for quite some time. Fantastic lacing is left behind. Aroma is pleasantly floral and fruity, quite soft but noticeable. Medium bodied, smooth and almost creamy with pleasant medium carbonation level. Flavor runs sweetish without being annoying. Floral and fruity, I don’t get the smoke that is advertised. Damn nice beer.

cloudy amber w/ off white head. sweet fruity aroma w/ a hint of citrus. bitter sweet, full bodied.

Bottle - Batch #2: This one won’t win points for appearance, a murky brown with a beige halo (after a short, short, short lived head), but it pleases nonetheless. The aroma is dark candy, SWEET malt, dark brown sugar, toffee, pepper, sweet spice, and alcohol. Vinuous and hot in the mouth, the flavor has a hint of chocolate, a juicy light fruitiness, toffee, white peppers, licorice, alcohol, and warm spices. It has a surprizingly quick, dry finish. Very nice.

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On tap at the Map room. Peach, apple, caramel malt and some spices in the aroma. Golden copper with a thin white head. Sweet, slight hint of pepper and something else I couln’t figure out. Quick finish with some more of that frutiness that was in the aroma. Light body, dry finish.

750ml Batch 10 Bottle: Cork popping leaves an interesting pattern on my ceiling; Spicy coriander and flowery hop aroma and a bit medicinal; honey and light fruit (apple, pear) notes; cloudy body and not alot of lacing in a clean glass; sweet, woody and yeasty, slightly dry finish and an oily, smooth palate, peppery spiciness that’s not too much; very good, but lacks some complexity one would expect in a Grand Cru; well balanced and not too spiced for me. It has plenty of flavor and charactor without the alcoholic strength, which is just fine.

Batch 9: Poured a murky amber with sizeable white foamy head. Aroma is lots of spicy yeast mixed with some fruit sweetness and anise. Taste is a lot of yeast, mixed with some pepper notes, nutmeg, and some other spices. Vanilla is also present in the fisnih. Nice malt backbone. Nice complexity. A good beer for a cold night.

Poured hazy orange with a sizable white head. Aroma was fruity with orange and citrus. I picked up some vanilla and toffee in the taste which I liked. Very nice palate with orange and vanilla. I’m glad I still have the rest of the bottle to finish.