Allagash Grand Cru

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Batch 10. Pours a reddish color with a small head and nice lacing. Smells fruity with a hint of banana. tastes of caramel and seasonal spices with a good amount of carbonation. I have new respect for this brewery.

Pours a nice copper color, with a big off-white head and great lacing. Aroma of malt, fruit, hops, cabernet, pine, nuts, and berries. Tastes malty, fruity, with some hops, fruit, berries, cabernet, and caramel at the finish. Very complex. Allagash has continued to impress the hell out of me. I’d love to drink one of these with a fresh lobster sandwich...perhaps next summer.

Amber hue, hazy, smallish off-white head. Very zesty aroma, grassy and orangey hops marry the honeysuckle and mild alcohol very well. Nice balance typical to Allagash. Not quite as flavorful as expected as far as the taste goes though, but there are nice malty hints approaching chocolate or caramel and definite honey in there. The mild bitterness balances intense sweetness and yeastiness. A bit too airy in the texture department, very bubbly and light at the same time.

750ml bottle batch 10 poured a light copper with a long lasting white head. Aroma was sweet, spicy and fruity. Palate was light bodied and dry. Flavor was fruity and spicy with a dry sweet finish.

Bottle from total wine. I like the Allagash family of beers, this one is no exception. Amber pour with a nose of spices, sweet citrus, and yeast. Flavor is very nice. Malty, fruity, spicy and some candy sugar/caramel. Nice!!

Deep hazy orange pour with a large well-retained off-white head. Aroma is quite spicy with a distinct Belgian aura to it. Very smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Spices hit the palate first, followed by some nice sweet malts. There was also some smokiness, dark fruit, and a very pleasant breadiness. FInish was spicy with dark fruits. Very good all around!

UPDATED: JUL 29, 2005 Re-Rate July 2005. 341 ml Bottle. Dark orange amber body, very nice off white head. Big yeasty aroma, mild spice. Flavour is spice prominend, quite dry. Average palate, lingering spices in the aftertaste. 6/4/6+/3/13 <P>Original Rating Dec 2003. Brown colour with a fluffy white head. I could not get much aroma from it but what there was was faintly malty with a bit of spice. Flavour is subtley spicy and sweet malt. 6/3/7/3/14

Bottle. Pour is golden with fuzzy white head. Taste is spiced fruit, sweet and some smoke. A decent beer.

Orange peel amd canola oil coupled with a medicinal flavour (i tink motelpogo likened the aroma too "peeling off a puss filled bandaid"), sweet start, but a relatively dry finish, with some pepper. A bit "surgical" (thanks Fil for that analysis).

Dark bronze color with tawny edges, lasting head and repugnant lacing. The aroma is faint, but slightly malty and sweet. The flavor is present, but also faint. I thought this would be a little more assertive but it kind of left me hanging. The belgian esters were present but just lacking, hense the average ratings.