Allagash Musette

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

Serve in Thistle

Bottled, December 2006 vintage. Poured copper, with a foamy, ivory-colored head. The nose was sour with hints of coriander. The flavor was very complex, with notes of honey, coriander, wood, and lemon peel. The finish was astringent and hoppy.

25 oz bottle, Stateline Liquors. Pours a clear dark copper to amber colored body under a fizzy beige head that retained forever due to vigerous visible carbonation. The aroma is fruity maltiness with lots of oak, alcohol, yeast influence, and caramel. The flavor is as much about the barrel as the beer itself. Very well attenuated, the malt is much less sweet than I expected, yielding to the heavy oak tannins. Finishes with a pleasant yeasty funkiness and minimal alcohol. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and thinner than I expected, but that’s a good thing to me. Lots of fizzy pinpoint efforvescent carbonation really keeps you engaged. This was surprisingly good. Easily the most drinkabe of all the small batch Allagash that I’ve had. The alcohol was amazingly well hidden and it didn’t come across as too young at all. It does perplex me that this is a Scotch Ale though.

Bottle. Clear amber coloured with an off white head. Fruity aroma of caramel. Flavour of malts, caramel, fruits and hops with notes of wood.

Deep hazy brown/amber coloured body with a nice dense off-white head. Aroma of vanilla pods, alcohol, wheat, malt, bourbon, oak and strong spice. Full-bodied; Strong malty flavour with bunches of oak and even more alcohol and vanilla. Aftertaste has more of the same - a lot of strong tastes that last very long in the palate. Overall, a pretty good beer - strong as hell and great to try. I sampled this 75 cL bottle, created in May 2006, sampled on 18-May-2007, purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Bottle. A hazy orange beer with a tan head. The aroma is fruity with apples and spices. The taste is also fruity with apples and spices and some wood. Medium body with a sweet dry finish.

Orange brown body with a small off white head; Very small malty deep nose, not all that interesting, but well made; Big bubbled a little sharp carbonation in balanced body; Long malty a little harsh finish, Bourbon aromas doesn’t mix to well with the beers Scotch ale character.

Bottle @ Københavnske Øldage 2007 in Copenhagen. Light brown color with a small fizzy fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, light hoppy, sweet / sour, earth, vanilla ? Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic, moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat.

Bottle at Københavnske Øldage 2007. Unclear brown - offwhite head. Chokolate, berries, caramel, brown suger, sweetness, yeasty, licoricelight light wood. Alcoholic. It seems to be an belgian style, to me. Ok but not fantastic.