Allagash Odyssey

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

Pours a very dark chestnut brown color with a huge frothy, pillowy tan head with excellent retention, only slowly fading into a lasting cap that leaves chunks of soapy lacing in it’s wake. Chocolate malty aroma that is slightly earthy with hints of oaky wood. Dark fruit notes and peppery spice also present. Creamy malty body with lots of estery dark fruit notes, especially raisin, prune, plum, and dark berries with lots of peppery zest, chocolate malts and earthy oak. Very smooth and quaffable with hints of grape and cherry dark fruit. Very nice balance of dark fruit and chocolate malt. The ABV is excellently balanced without a trace of alcohol warmth making this beer extremely quaffable. Sweet dry finish. Excellent!

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Split with Braden. Pours deep amber, with a thick, lasting beige head. Aroma of figs, raisins, roasted malts, and hints of chocolate, soil, and chesnuts. Full bodied with a heavy, creamy mouthfeel. Excellent Belgian strong. Highly recommended.

On tap at OBriens Pub in San Diego. A beginner of a fine evening of weeknight drinking late in September with Katie. Color is dark brown with a fine developing white lace served in a Chimay chalice. Aroma is mostly ashy smoke and dark fruit, with raisins and cherry tossed in the mix. Flavor is fairly light and dry, with bitter smoke and just a hint of oak showing through in the finish. Dark fruits comprise most of the flavor up front. Belgian yeast notes linger in the finish. Pretty tasty.

2006 Bottle - Thanks Ughsmash! - Pours a thin black with a medium beige head...aroma is vanilla oak, caramel and cocoa...flavour is similar, toast, massive wood and sweet creme, chocolate malt and more sweet wood...plenty of unfermented sugars in this, but not sticky, just sweet...the oak is #1 and everything else is secondary in this brew, and I really dug it...

Dark brown almost still pour. Aroma of caramel, toffee, oaky tannins, and chocolate on the nose. Flavor does not live up to the aroma. Flavor is Earthy with notes of toffee, chocolate, vanilla, light bourbon, & toasted hazelnut.

Dark fLat pour barley no head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel choc brown sugars hints of vanilla and a hint of bourban boozy nose. Almost a slight bitter choc in the flavor lots of the oaky bourban comes through And even some darkfruit lot more fizz at the front then expected. Very easy drinking and very yummy!

Dark brown pour with no head. Aroma is brown sugar, vanilla oak, slightly vinous. Flavor is oakey with some vanilla notes and dark fruit, dates ands some dark sugar. The finish is sublime. New flacors of codes and roasty choclate come though. Complex brew. really fantastic

Deep garnet body colour with a shinning surface. Smell of sweet, dark berries with vanilla hints. Spicy and sweet taste of berries and dark fruits from start to finish. Some vanilla hints from the oak barrel. Well integrated alcohol. A tasty drink, full bodied (One-third pint, gravicask, USA bar, GBBF 06.08.2009).