Allagash Four

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Portland, Maine USA

This is one of the best beers I’ve had to date. Picked up a bottle from Bev Mo La Mesa. Pours a nice brown color with a small off white head that bailed quikly. Taste of bread, toffee, chocolate, with some spices as well. Cant wait to get another bottle!!

Blind Quad Tasting 07. 750 ml bottle from xnoxhatex. Light brown in color with a small diminishing off white head. Light bready aroma, grainy, earth and very yeasty (that beefy trappistes yeast at that), toffee, coriander, and alcohol. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Lightly sweet, sugary, red fruits, a little acidic, and alcohol hidden well but for bit of warmth on the throat. A bit of chalky finish but not bad overall. Finished 4th (or 5th?) out of 9 Abt/Quads.

Bottle. Copper with a small white head receding into a small ring. Lots of cherries in the aroma followed by caramel and bitter chocolate. The flavour is very nice - soft, quaffable body. Sweet fruits, chocolate, and toffee notes are prevalent. Alcohol and sweet raisins nearing the finish. Very good.

750ml, part of our blind "Better Know a Style: Abt/Quadrupel" tasting, thanks to xnoxhatex for bring this. pours small white head that didn’t last, a cloudy dense reddish brown color. nose is malty, very yeasty, plum, port, oak, brown sugar, maple syrup, and alcohol. flavor is very sweet, long, plum, raisin, and alcohol is very well hidden. mouthfeel is soft and smooth. finished #4 out of 9 quads.

The beer seemed a little bit overdone to me. I feel like it was a bit to malty and sweet for my tastes. I would have liked to be able to taste the hops a bit better. It was a solid beer that was full of flavor, but just not the flavor that I prefer.

Bottle provided by beastiefan2k. Pours hazy brown and amber with a small fizzy light brown head, somewhat diminishing, spare head. Aroma is heavy malt (caramel, toffee, nutty), heavy hops (flowers, perfume), average yeast (dough, fresh leather) with notes of heavy alcohol, apple, pear and port. Full bodied, sticky texture, avearage carbonation and a bitter finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness; moderate alcohol and heavy malt, caramel, maple flavor, perfume and floral hops, well balanced.

Poured a clear ruby brown color with a lasting thick head. Aroma is somewhat soft but contains caramel, clove and some banana. Flavor is more of what I expected with rich caramelized malts, fig, raisin, cane sugar, along with a hint of apricot, clove and cinamon. Mouthfeel is slightly sweet but dry enough to be considered belgian.

Light hazy deep amber colour with a small off white head. Malty, quite complex fruity sweetness with a light alcohol note. Sweet malty flavor with a warming alcohol sweet finish.