3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Got to try this beer thanks to the girlfriend being crazy and buying it for me. Bottle, pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, and a boat load of malt. Smooth body, 10.4% well hidden. Flavor is of dark fruit and malt. The oak is there in both the flavor and aroma. Good stuff, I enjoyed it.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(750ml, bottled October 2006) Pours a dark brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma of cookies, caramel, chocolate, toffee, toasted nuts, brown sugar, and oak. Flavor of raisins, rum, toffee, apple, oak, and toasted malt with a dry finish.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye.Dark brown pour with a very white head. Nose: meat, denim, graham cracker, coconut rum cake. Taste: Spiced rum, applewood smoked bacon, cookies. Damn tasty.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
2006 bottle from bu11zeye. deep brown pour with some froth up top. bourbon, malts, dried fruits and denim on the nose. good thickness with a great flavor of candied sugar, malts with undertones of vanilla and bourbon.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2006 bottle thanks to bu11zeye...Really good stuff. Pours with a small, off-white head that doesnt last long, covering a huge, hazy, dark brown body. Aroma of snickerdoodle cookies, a bit of barrel, a bit of dust, cinnamon, graham cracker, brown sugar, spiced rum cake...at slightly complex, if not very good. Taste is spicey, sugary, with a bit of cookie, and barrel. Very good, some vanilla traits... great sipper. Syrupy boddy with light bubbles. Alcohol is decenetly hidden.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2004 bottle, at BA Throwdown #2. Murky brown pour, watery white head, very creamy lacing. Spicy nose, dark fruit, dry wheat, some cinnamon, nutmeg. Very smooth, spicy malt flavors, cinnamon, banana, nutmeg, crisp notes of clove and Belgian yeast. Smooth sharp body, drinkable and tasty.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
I believe this beer came from Bruisin Ales in Asheville.
The oak is very subtle. Not too direct or aggressive. The beer pours a brown/red. The taste is all Belgian brown. Very rich and dark and delicious. Traces of bourbon. Some caramel. Very Trappist in taste and style.
Bottled January 2008.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml from Whole Foods, Raleigh. One of the very best of Allagash’s barrel-aged series. Dark brown pour with very intense carbonation, releasing extremely appealing bourbon and oak notes. The foundation is a good solid Belgian strong, almost like Fin du Monde in a sense, given how prominent raisins and other fruits are in the flavor. Full mouthfeel, prickly carb and a bit of pepper, but it’s all smoothed out by the soft, subtle bourbon notes, which bring the beer together. Delish!
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