Allagash Vagabond

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 375ml.

Clear medium to dark amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry - plum, oak. Flavour is heavy sweet, light to moderate acidic and moderate bitter with a long duration, deap fruity, tart, wood, cherry. Nice balanced and complex. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. IMO mind clearly a sour/wild !! [20120211]

375 ml. Bottle pour. Dark amberish color with a decent head. Dark fruits. Very complex. A lot going on. Enjoyed greatly.

Bottle looks really good. Beer in the glass a bit darker than Gargamel, a bit bigger head. Starts mild sourish with very interesting caramel notes. Modest dry, fine fruity. Finish less sourish, fine spicy, still with notes of caramel. Very interesting beer!

375ml shared by duchessedubourg.
Appearance : Clear amber
Aroma : Sourness with soy sauce. Light vinegar notes.
Taste : Soy sauce with vinegar. Sour with quite a lot of wood. Oak tannins.
Overall : Wow this is one weird beer. Very complex with lots of stuff going on... sadly not stuff I like that much. Don’t really like the vinegar and soy sauce thing. Interesting sourness with interesting wood notes. I can understand why some would like this but I don’t.

Trade from rgtravers, thanks a million. To celebrate my 30th birthday. Deep clear amber body with a small white head. Aroma is tart berries, oak, plums, caramel, alcohol, port. Wow. Flavor is tart fruit, alcohol, caramel, plums. Medium carbonated. Looks thin in the glas, but surprisingly oily in the mouth. It simply gets better and better. I´d love another bottle. Thanks again Ryan.

Bottle… This beer rocks!... Clear ruby ale with no head. The aroma is funky and fruity with notes of dark cherries and oak. Full-bodied with lively carbonation. The flavor is malty and fruity, but also quite tart with no alcohol burn. Finishes caramely, tart and dry. World class brew! Thanks to jtclockwork for this bottle!

In short: A weird overly sweet and vinegary attempt at a classic Flemish Sour. Disappointing.
How: Bottle 375ml. Consumed when a little over 1 year of age
The look: Mostly clear light-bronze body topped by a small beige head
In long: The unusual nose is part classic Flemish Sour (sour oaky notes and all) and part maple leaf cookies. Taste is a strange mix of toasted malts, vinegar, cherry skin, some caramel, a lot of dry oak, frozen raspberries, lots of residual sugars, some medicinal notes, quite a bit of leather, maple cookies, strawberries. Strong sourness and excessive astringency. There is a lot of flavors that can be listed here but the whole thing just doesn’t work very well. Too much maple cookies that do not fit the rest of the beer. Overall too sweet and too sharp. The beer isn’t bad but I’m complaining because I was expecting a lot more from this beer. This is not the quality level of their Gargamel, not by a long shot. I’ve been hunting for this beer for a while and when I finally got a bottle I found out it really wasn’t that good. And I also found out why the chicken crossed the road and it’s really not that funny.

Foggy amber color/ beige head. Big wet wood tannin, caramel, fruity aromas. medium bodied. Nice lightly sweet n’ tart caramel, grape juice, cherry flavors--good.

sampled during the 2011 RBWG weekend thanks to Joe for sharing, pours hazy dirty blond with a medium off white head. Aroma is floral with tons of wood going on. Flavor is tart berries, lots of fruity yeast going on and a nice dry finish that is tart with moldy wood.

This ale is a very dark amber, a little lighter in the light. It is brown with highlights of red, reminding me of tea. There is little carbonation as the head is about half a finger but fades way too quickly. There is little lacing. The aroma is strong with sourness coming from tobacco, leather and oak. There is oddly no tartness from fruit detectable. The taste is very similar to the aroma with a strong oak taste followed by a sour finish. The after taste sour lasts several seconds. the beer is good but its not something you could or would drink a lot of. I’m a big wild fan and find them drinkable but this is on the very far end of drinkability.