Allagash Vrienden

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pouring at the Saturday sessions of EBF. Pours a hazed orange amber. Soft funk and light sourness on the nose. Just a touch sour, raisins and fruit. Sour acid takes over, toasty and lightly funky. Long sweet acidic finish.

On tap at Map Room last night...Pours a light copper, a nice bright off-white head, great retention and lacing... A nice musky aroma, grains show through with a little floral note... The taste is more of the same but you get more of the elderberries, nice and drinkable, alcohol hidden well... One of the better Allagash beers.

On tap at Gourmet Haus in Redwood City. Pours a beautiful burnt orange with an off-white head that only leaves a small collar. Fruit, sour and slight malt aromas. Coating mouthfeel with noted alcohol. Great sour taste that is perfectly understated. A little grassy meadow. Puckering.

Poured hazy with about 1" of head. Smells of orange peel. Tastes lightly sour, but this would be a great introduction to sour beer if you’ve never tried one before.

Complements of the dude at the end of the bar who brought a small keg - wow thanks!! Hazy pour, almost no head. Wonderful nose! Molasses, earthy, lactic. Nice flavor, almost no carbonation.

Draft. Amber beer with an off-white head. Tart and yeast aroma with green apple. Tart and yeasty flavor with green apple and light malt. Medium bodied. Tart and light yeast lingers with light herbaceousness and malt.

In short: A slightly funky and not-so-sour Sour/Wild flowery golden ale. Lovely
How: Tap at Extreme Beer Fest 2011
The look: Cloudy golden body topped by a medium beige head
In long: Nose has a bit of funk, dust and something musky/wood-ish. The beer has a big body full of grainy cereals with taste dried fruits, dry flowers, tannins, acidity, very mild sourness. One of the too many beers I had on that day. It’s not a precise description but you can bullshit people into thinking that if you wanted you could add more to a beer description by ending a rating with five periods…..

Draft. Pours a hazy orange body with a white head. Aromatically sour with some funky and herbal notes. Light funky fruit tones maybe cherries. LIght funky berries and a floral tone. Mild warming with some lacto and acetic tones. Finish is a bit grainy with some peach and nut tones to finish. The better of the two.

Served on draft at Commercial Taphouse in Richmond, VA, 4/23/11. Pours a hazy reddish color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Tart earthy aroma with notes of citrus, plum and faint vegetal notes. The taste is earthy and citrus hops, berries, plums, some vegetal notes and a tart finish. Medium bodied. Nice beer.

On tap at the iron abbey beer dinner. Red wine, sour aroma. Grape, woodsy, strawberry, mild sour taste. Second tier sour ale.