2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(on bottle) Rustyred, white head. Aomas from cranberries, wood and mash. Sweet ´n´soft mouthfeel. No real peat or tar here, gets very sweet in the finish, so sweet not even the 10% can balance it out.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Small sample off of a friend’s 750ml bottle. Pours almost a dark mahogony in color. The aroma is nutty and spicey, a mix of anisete and cloves. This beer has a syrupy sweetness, but in a good way almost like a vanilla/honey flavor. It has a full body ending in a warm, creamy finish. Very good.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
pours a nice brown color with a medium sized off-white head. nutty, caramel, toast, brown sugar, licorice aroma. flavors brown sugar, honey coated nuts, caramel, spices.....very brown. sugary. i don’t notice any smoked notes. i would consider this more of a dubbel or brown ale but excellent either way.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Batch 260 - 2006 Vintage - Received via trade, with whom though I can’t recall. I’m usually down with most beers Allagash produces and that didn’t change with this one either. It reminded me in so many ways of a barrel aged Maudite (if that were to ever exist) it wasn’t funny, and then to find out it’s supposed to be a Scotch Ale?
The beer pours out medium brown color, cloudy with a nice two-finger thick head. Aroma is decidedly dark fruits, spices, bourbon and wood. The beer has a slight prickly mouthfeel. Flavors are dark fruits, a caramel-malt yeastiness, and more bourbon and oak notes. This was an above average beer and surprisingly sweet.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 23, 2008 Bottle. Pour is Light brown with the scent of scotch and fruit pear/apple. Flavor is malty, strong hop character, oak. Very drinkable for 10%. 3.5
The BA Allagash Musette on draft at blind tiger tasted like a completely different beer even though they are listed as one in the same. Awesome oak, and vanilla, licorice, bourbon and it just came together so dam good, listed as 10+%. 4.3
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a copper-brown color with an off-white head that sustains itself due to a steady stream of champagne-like bubbles. Aroma is syrupy sweet with some vinous character. Taste borders on cloyingly sweet; I get roasted malt, notes of brandy, and a significant hop bitterness as well. It’s also quite buttery in taste and texture; alcohol becomes noticable after the swallow. Very interesting.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
August 2006 bottle. Fruity malt aroma with tangy apple juice hints. hazy orange color with a almond small head. Mildly sweet fruit malt beginning with a stronger bitter wood finish. Alcohol is well hidden.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Purchased at Perfect Pour - Deep brownish crimson, thick lightly tanned head. Aroma showed notes of brown sugar coated dark fruit and apple with undertones of oak and vanilla grapes. Very well balanced caramel fruity oak flavors throughout. Soft hints of sweet bourbon pear emerge at room temp. Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Complex and very well made...
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