Allagash Musette

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

Serve in Thistle

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UPDATED: JUL 4, 2006 Bottle - corked and caged. Label states "Bottling May 2006" and "Cases Bottled 690". Pours a cloudied brown with a small fizzy tanned head. It’s reduced to a foam ring around the edge of the glass within minutes of the pour. The aroma was a bit misleading at first. It smelled sour or tart. Tart fruits, light wood notes, soft cocoa, and light alcohol. Taste is malty and sweet with more slightly soured fruits, dark fruits, cocoa, dusty yeast, flowers, light wood and a touch of alcohol. Body is bubbly but firm with a slight bit of tartness and some dryness around the edges. Finishes with more fruit notes, though not giving out as much tartness, Belgian yeast, flowers, light smoldering wood, sweet malts, light cocoa and light alcohol.

Bottle... Hazy, copper ale with a small, fizzy, off-white head. Terrific retention. Complex nose... woodsy, fruity, chocolatey, spicy and slightly Flemish. Notes of port, mandarin orange, banana and malt whiskey. Possibly a Belgian yeast strain. The malty, earthy flavor is moderately bitter from the booze, charred wood and hops. Full-bodied and creamy with fizzy carbonation. Lengthy, bitter finish.

Pours clear copper with some orange-gold where the glass is thin. My first impression of the aroma is an excellent balance of peaty smoke and that omnipresent Allagash yeast aroma. Upon further exploration, nutty and fruity notes arise, alongside caramel. As it warms and sits, spicy, ginger-y aromas appear. Good so far. The flavor is mostly smoky and malty, but there is some earth, grape, and a host of other minor flavors--most of which I can’t put my finger on--to add complexity. Interesting dry bourbon and chocolate finish, with an appropriate amount of alcohol coming through. The chocolate comes through more as the beer warms. The alcohol actually blends with the smoky dryness quite pleasantly, making this beer second only to Stoudt’s Abbey Dubbel in the use of alcohol flavors to add significantly to the brew. Another successful experiment. Now if they’d only throw some Brett in there...

Bottle from Super Saver. Pours turbid deep coppery with some deep gold accents on the bottom of the glass. The aroma is oaky, woody, peaty, and charred, with some fruit and bourbon and yeast hints. The flavor is caramel malty at first, with an explosion of smoky, charred, oaky bourbon, fruit, grapey notes, and some citrusy yeast hints. Rich palate. This one has a strong charred, woody, peaty, earthy, fruity grapey thing going on, and it is unique and works quite well.

UPDATED: JUN 19, 2006 Pours brown with a small head. Smells smoky with some nice malty notes, caramel, figs, nuts and rosey hints. Tastes nutty with some cocoa and slight smoky taste.

Got this jem at RSVP in portland. 750ml corked bottle. pours dark amber brown with medium to small head. aroma is of sweet sweet malts, carmel, vanilla, and a hint of alcohol and burbon. flavors are similar, nutty, vanilla, toffee. very smooth. warms you up nice. an awesome beer. you definatly get what you pay for at 13$ and change for a bottle.