3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a brownish-orange with a light tan head. Aroma is malty with some spices. Flavor is sweet with an oakish, vinous, and bourbon like notes.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
This was stored for my 400th beer since I didn’t want to take the plunge into the $17 other one. Maybe I will do that today. Pours an exceptional golden brown something. nose is alchohol and sweet malts. No hint of the vanilla I was hoping for. Taste hit’s strong and crisp, almost tingles here and there, then mellows out into robust roasted malts, some dark cherries, sugar, and dark fruit. It’s balance hangs well enough to frustrate us all and remains down to earth in tone. Well done me on reaching #400.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled May 2006. Brown colored body with ample light seen through but still quite opaque. Wondeful creamed banana and bourbon nose, full of cedar and oak wood scents. Flavor more of bourbon (light butter), dark overripe oranges and bananas, even some fig in there as well. Creamy, lightly frothy, rich, delicious.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours with a brownish, copper color. Definitely aromas of wood and oak as well as dark fruit. Flavors of oak, roasted malts and cherries. A heavy dose of Belgian yeast supplies the background of typical breadiness. Well constructed beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. 2006 vintage. Rich amber beer with an off-white head. Yeasty, earthy, sweet malt aroma. Oaky, sweet malt, slight caramel flavor with yeast and earthiness. Medium body. LIngering oak, yeast, and sweet caramel malt. Hides alcohol well.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft @ Capone’s. Amber with some reddish tones and a small white head. Sweet & oaky aroma with some dark fruit. Taste is sweet & smooth, with plenty of dark fruits, oak, a bit of bourbon, and some vanilla. Very tasty! Another good one from Allagash - can’t wait to try my 2006 bottle of this after a few years aging!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at Capone’s. Slightly hazy copper. Aroma of oak/bourbon and brown sugar. Taste of brown sugar, toffee, bourbon and vanilla. Full bodied. Very nice.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Capone’s during the Great Lakes tasting. Pours a lightly hazy golden amber with a smaller off white head. Aroma of caramel, dark fruits, Fig Newtons, slightly earthy with some oak. Flavor of candi sweetness with hints of oak, vanilla, light alcohol, Belgian yeast, spices and a bit on the hot side.
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