Allagash Odyssey

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

Thin light brown head of fine bubbles. Very good carbonation keeps a thin foam on the surface. Nice aroma loaded with raisins, grapes, plums and vanilla. Color is a dark port brown. Rich and lively in the mouth. Loads of malts, vanilla, caramel for sweetness and some more raisins. The wheat gives it a little extra body also. Very good stuff. Rich and potent. A little oak in there but not a lot. I have been noticing a lot of beers aged in oak pick up some vanilla notes. Finish is creamy and smooth with a nice alcohol warming. A very good belgian strong ale.

Brown color. Aroma of malt, vanilla, zabaione. Medium body structure, good malt, pungent carbonation, vanilla, sweet nuts. Warming alcohol
Well done!

Beer pours mahogeny brown with a nice thick well retained cream colored head. Aroma is rich and full of grapes, oak, and alcohol. Flavors of oak, cherries, alclhol, and some wheat in the finish. Yum.

Pours dark brown with a foamy off-white head. Slightly vinous malt aroma with a note of alcohol. Malt, cookie and oak flavor with some sour hints and a dry foamy mouth. Sharp, interesting.

got this bottle at the brewery in Portland. Feb 2005. pours very dark brown with some reddish hints. aroma is yeasty and sweet with some caramel notes. taste is awesome, reminds me of a porter mixed with a powerfull abbey quadrupel. coffeee, chocolate, plum, raisins, some banana and clove,some alcohol flavor is present but only adds to the experiance. goes down smoooooth. makes ya nice and warm. great beer, wish it was affordable, i would drink it all the time

Bottled Feb. 2005 - Glossy black body with deep burgandy highlights within. Inch high, puffy tannish foam sits for good length before settling to a big fluffy collar and a solid skim. Minimal lacing in small globby strings and a few spots. Heavenly aroma of vinous-like oak decorated in lots of dark nuances of dark fruity malt, black licorice, tootsie roll chocolate, carob, vanilla, and a splash of good Ol’ alcoholic breath. Taste has an emaculately creamy front that’s airy and rounded with a full brunt of dark fruity malts. Has a short stay middling area of chocolate and date flavors. Lively and full on the swallow with warmth and alcoholic texture bringing a breeze of vanilla and port flavors. Hints to carob, root beer, black licorice and, anise. Finishes great with great length and memory with a leftover melting pot of rich chocolate laced with dark fruityness and sticky maltyness and lightly fluffed with some cocoa powder composition. Its much more complex then what I’m able to describe and soak in, but take my word for it. Its damn good! Feel is a very solid medium body with a uniform ride of interchanging full areas gliding from point to point, as do warming qualities, creamyness, smoothness, and maltyness. Looong finishing area, it sticks with you for a day and a half. A very complexing texture and character to this beer. Quite spectacular! Yum, yum, and yum, this stuff is killer! Fantastic job by Allagash. No surprise really, but damn I could never get sick of this stuff. Me likey.