The Cellars #08
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production|
Score
7.22
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We took our Tripel and aged it not once or twice, but thrice. First, we racked it into Moulin-à-Vent Gamay wine barrels, then we transferred it into fresh bourbon barrels, after which we aged the beer on fresh cherries long enough to lend the beer an eye-poppingly bright red hue. Flavors of raspberry, cherry, strawberry, and vanilla wash over the palate with a mild sweetness and a lingering touch of sourness.
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8.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
375mL bottled November 2023, drunk September 9, 2026.
Spicy, funky cherry with a hint of bourbon in the background. Not like the bourbon you get in most BA Imperial Stouts, for example, but with more oak and spice and quite a bit more subtle with a bit of liquor. Bright and fruity with a mix of lactic and Brett and good Sacch to anchor it. No booze noted.
Quite a bit maltier than the nose would suggest, though their Tripel is quite malty so it's not surprising. Nice to see it hasn't been overattenuated in almost 3 years. And there's that lovely bourbon character in the background; spicy and liquorish without any obnoxious alcohol nor too much oak tannin. The cherry is really well-done. Round, fruity, with a ton of mineral, flesh and bright fruit but not sweet or too acidic. Not surprised that adding a tasteful addition of bourbon and cherry to their Tripel produced an incredibly flavorful, complex, lovely beer. I love that they haven't departed too heavily from the base beer. There's very little wild yeast/bacteria here. It's still mostly Sacch.
Spicy, funky cherry with a hint of bourbon in the background. Not like the bourbon you get in most BA Imperial Stouts, for example, but with more oak and spice and quite a bit more subtle with a bit of liquor. Bright and fruity with a mix of lactic and Brett and good Sacch to anchor it. No booze noted.
Quite a bit maltier than the nose would suggest, though their Tripel is quite malty so it's not surprising. Nice to see it hasn't been overattenuated in almost 3 years. And there's that lovely bourbon character in the background; spicy and liquorish without any obnoxious alcohol nor too much oak tannin. The cherry is really well-done. Round, fruity, with a ton of mineral, flesh and bright fruit but not sweet or too acidic. Not surprised that adding a tasteful addition of bourbon and cherry to their Tripel produced an incredibly flavorful, complex, lovely beer. I love that they haven't departed too heavily from the base beer. There's very little wild yeast/bacteria here. It's still mostly Sacch.
Tried
from Bottle
at
The Cellars at Allagash
on 09 Sep 2026
at 22:13