Allagash Odyssey

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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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.

December 2011 bottling. Aroma has some burnt sugar character with strong alcohol note, raisins, leather too. Copper to dark mahogany in color. Super creamy head that never disappears. Taste is sweet again with strong alcohol character. Slightly tannic, not really getting the oak. Definitely has a sherry character. Very long finish, warm. Creamy mouthfeel. Enjoyable beer. Would love to taste some straight from the steel tanks so i could appreciate better what the oak adds.

08 Vintage. Brown/black, mahogany edges. Aroma of dark fruit, earthy bitterness, tobacco, some licorice and soy. Taste is nice and mellow, lots of sweetness, some woody bitterness. Very smooth texture, soft carbonation.

(750ml bottle vintage July 2009) clearish medium brown pour with light bubbles. Nose of grape jelly, lightly vinous, sweet Belgian dark candi sugar, bits of cocoa, smells super complex. Taste of concorde grapes, belgian candi sugar, not super spicy. tends more towards the sweet, juicy dark fruits, naturally carbonated, a nice beer!

Bottle shared with friends. Brown pour with off white head. Aroma is roasted and woody. Roast malt, oak, caramel and fruit in flavor.

75cl shared with kermis and friends. Thin off white head. Deep ruby pour. Nice enough beer. Can’t taste the barrel aging

Hot damn... Dark brown pour. Smokey aroma, with flavor of caramel malt, oak, and general malt deliciousness. oh, and alcohol.

Draft at Mugs Alehouse. Aroma of rich toasted Oak, Toasted Oak on the palate but not too overbearing, Slight Vanilla, caramel and spice,carbonation is lively and makes for a great mouth feel. Well balanced for such a strong beer.

3/6/12. 750mL bottle shared by Larry! Hazy brown pour with a small tan head that fades but laces plenty. Slightly fruity, phenolic aroma with a surprising chocolate and roast kick. Sweet banana flavors with another big chocolate and roast kick, on top of touches of vanilla. Nice!

Bottle pours a clear red/brown with a small, fizzy, off white head. Scent is caramel, wood and booze. Taste is sweet and lightly bitter with wood. Nice

Pour is a mahogany color with a finger thick white head. Nose is of roasted... something. Taste is similar, dominated by the aging notes more than anything, some light vanilla and some strong oak notes.