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Allagash Odyssey

Allagash Odyssey - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Portland, Maine USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3013.88/5.03.86/5.0Special10.4%95.4Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Late this year we plan to release a second beer in the Barrel Aged series... a dark, 10% wheat beer. We have been aging a portion of the beer in New American Medium Toast Oak, and a portion in Stainless steel. We will then blend the beers to taste, and bottle condition. The beer will have spent over 6 months aging in the oak and steel at the brewery!
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 Ungstrup (14761), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 7, 2006  
A red-brown beer with a beige head. The aroma is sweet fruity combined with some notes of pine needles and hints of smoke, while the flavor is sweet with notes of over ripe fruit, caramel, and alcohol. Nice.


 Papsoe (14642), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/103/517/20
Jan 29, 2006  
(Bottle 75 cl) Very unclear dark brown with a creamy, off-white head. Vinous and quite sophisticated nose. Full-bodied with great flavours of oak and bourbon. Discreet bitterness. Superb. 270106


 oh6gdx (8802), Vasa, Finland
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Aug 13, 2009  
Cask@GBBF2009. Deep amber colour, small brown head. Aroma is liquorice, mild smoke, some wood as well as spices. Also some mild herbal and alcoholic notes. Flavour is liquorice, caramel, sugar, maplesyrup, smoke, some plum and mild spicy and alcohlic notes as well.


 joergen (8430), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 30, 2006  
Bottle. Clear orange red coloured with a beige head. Sweet aroma of wood, bourbon and fruits. Flavour of wood, bourbon and fruits.


 kp (8400), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 1, 2007    Updated: Feb 4, 2008
Date: 04/29/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Dark Lord Day, 2005

dark amber, light malt aroma, rumors of bacon aroma, nice bitter malt flavor, lots of spice, palate fatigue
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Date: 05/04/2005

thin beige head, rich dark malt aroma, lots of rich malt flavor balanced by nice spices
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Date: 03/26/2006
Source: tasting

big woody aroma, lots of oak mixed with the dark malt, are all of these oak aged?
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Date: 11/02/2006
Source: aa
Score: ii+ to iii

lots of wonderful oak
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Date: 02/01/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

oak and dark fruity malts arein perfect balance,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4


 Oakes (8080), gone rambling, Vietnam
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 26, 2008    Updated: Oct 16, 2008
Chestnut brown, slight haze. Thin caramel head. Oaky, toasty and chewy, with rich dark fruit notes. There’s a slightly smokey, chocolate note in there. Soft, smokey, chocolatey body with some woody dryness and alcoholic firmness. Complex, distinctive.


 fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Apr 12, 2006  
Brown color. Aroma of malt, vanilla, zabaione. Medium body structure, good malt, pungent carbonation, vanilla, sweet nuts. Warming alcohol
Well done!


 argo0 (6861), Washington DC, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/104/513/20
Jun 27, 2005  
(750ml, bottled 2/05) Big beige head atop a clear, dark red-brown body. Aroma is moderately sweet, brown sugar, raisin, bourbon, vinous, some vanilla, light wood, faint peat. Taste is sweet, brown sugar, bourbon, vanilla, light plum. Surprisingly mild alcohol warming in the finish. Medium-full body that is much thinner than the bourbon its flavor suggests. Still, the aroma would have you believe a greater range of flavors await you than the beer actually delivers.



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