Allagash Burnham Road

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Smoked
Portland, Maine USA

Date: November 29, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: murkey burnt orange, huge stiff beige head that is just begging to be carved into cute animal figures
Aroma: sweet and smokey aroma, caramel sweetness, woody smokeyness, light earthyness
Flavor: flavor starts of with some sweet caramel before the big smokeyness kicks in to turn it dry and earthy, light spicyness follows the woody character from the smoke
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

Draught at Barcade, New York
Black color. Light vanilla and chocolate aroma. Empty and dry final.

(draft) Creamy off-white head atop clear dark amber body, great lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, smoke, some ash, light caramel. Taste is medium sweet, smoked meat, caramel, earthy. Light-medium body.

CBC Cask Night by MBAA–pours a foamy off white head and copper color. Aroma is raw, smoky/peat-medium malt. Taste is raw, smoky/peat-medium malt and sweet, some earthy hops. Medium body. Not my taste but well done.
Earlier Rating: 5/19/2009 Total Score: 3.6
@CBC-on tap-pours an off white ring for a head and hazy amber/brown color. Aroma is peat-medium malt, wood, cherry-some vinegar, some earthy. Taste is peat/caramel-medium malt, wood, cherry, earthy.

On tap at Max’s in Baltimore: Pours a transparent deep golden bronze with a clingy well-lacing frothy off-white head. Aroma of lightly smoky biscuity Belgian malt with some mild grassy hop notes. Starts with pretty good fullness, some fizzy carbonation, and some light doughy pale malty sweetness and earthy smoky character before a drier bittersweet finish. Pretty decent smoke character but could use a little more sweetness.

Tap at Barcade. Hazy brown-amber pour with a thin white head. The nose is lightly spicy with a touch of light smokiness over a softly phenolic clove character. A touch of ashiness, but I like the integration of the yeasty spice with the light smokiness. Fairly assertive bitterness that probably could have been dialled back a bit, but it’s pretty nice nonetheless.

Draft. Pours a an amber body with a white head. Smoke, char, liquid smoke and peat malt. Bacon, chewy meats and well malt. Delicious and 7% is a certain added bonus. Great stuff.

Tap at BT. Pours a clear medium bright copper with a nice white head and some lace. Aroma is a really nice meaty smokiness- restrained and rounded with nice toffee malty sweetness- just clean nice refined beechwood smoke from bamberg/weyerman. Flavor is very clean and smooth- I have to assume they used their house strain to ferment but it is very clean it seemed like a nice lager yeast- fruits are very mellow- malts are clean and upfront- very straightforward with more nice complimenting sweetness, with light earth and restrained phenols. Smooth and easy drinking, felt like drinking a 5-6% restrained slightly fruity smoked lager/marzen. I really liked this one, but I like most smoked beers. Very well done.