Allagash Musette

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

Serve in Thistle

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.

A hazy orange beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet and very spicy - though I can’t name any individual spices. The flavor is also very spicy and it reminds me a lot of a Belgian Ale, but it also has notes of berries and fruit, and of the spices I pick out cloves, and somewhere there’s just a touch of brettanomyces. The end has a light woody note combined with bourbon. This beer really confuses me - so much is going on at the same time.

(Bottle 75 cl) Hazy, amber golden with a creamy, beige head. Vinous, alcoholic nose. Medium body with some caramel, fruity notes and then an almost roaring alcohol. Not particularly balanced. Once again Allagash fails to impress me. 120507

75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange to amber with a diminished white head. Light fruity yeasty aroma, sweet and with a mild vanilla note. Quite sweet flavoured. Shows a light yeasy spice note and a mild smothing vanilla oak flavour. Ligh alcohol warming finish. To sweet for my liking although the vanilla oak smoothness suites the beer well.

Bottled at RBESG. Cloudy amber. Perfumy oaky nose. Fruity and estery with medium body. Woody and full flavoured with some caramel and floral strawberries. Intense. An American version of a Belgian version of a Scottish beer...

Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is wood, lots of nectar, some pine and also a bit leathery and berryish notes. Flavour is fruits, spices, herbs, some berries, yeast and mild leatheryness in the background.

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

Bottle at KØ07. Almost clear chestnut colour. Good malty flavour with a little esters and pepper and some raisin.