Aventureux
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.47
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Jow (8450) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Tap atbstags head last brew I have to call it Allagash is too strong for a father. Dark pour. Nose is sweet licorice and choclate. Tastes the same anise, chocolate, booze, cherry, vanilla. Slick palate. Hot booze.
solidfunk (22078) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Whiskey and lots of dry roast. Like a guinness with a whiskey shot. Black pour with great mocha head and lacing. Light caramel. Light sweet boozy finish. Tap at Birch and barley.
radagast83 (13601) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
4 oz pour at the Sovereign. Poured a dark brown color with a small light tan head. Aroma as rye, chocolate, toffee. Vanilla and barrel. Very nice!
GenDV138 (9261) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
4 oz pour on draft at The Sovereign during the Allagash Saison Day event. Dark brownish black with light tan head. Aromas of whiskey, roast, chocolate. Tastes of whiskey, dark chocolate, caramel, spice, toffee. Medium-full body with a dry finish. Nice balance.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft. Opaque dark brown, almost black, thick briwn head with good retention and solid lacing. Nice aroma of sourdough brownies. Taste has peppery cocoa powder, espresso, lightly burnt toast. Delicious.
PMgep (4081) ticked Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Aventureux from Allagash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Meadhall on 12/17/15.
Large, dark beige head is full and shows strong-to-moderately-strong retention. Seemingly black body actually shows decent clarity when held to the light, with magenta-auburn highlights on the edges. Beer seems to be in immaculate condition.
Definite whiskey in the nose is very rich and spicy, but dosen’t have the one-two punch of heavy, toasted/buttery/tannic oak. Just the whiskey character mixing with chocolate malt, light caramel and vanilla, to create a light, spicy, cola-character with mild fruity esters from the yeast. Some light alcohol noted, but nothing heavy. As long as you like actual whiskey aromas, it’s quite enjoyable.
The flavor is full of chocolate malt mixed with the base malt sweetness providing light milk chocolate. Yeast adds very light bubble gum and banana and the whiskey adds spiciness/vanilla. Hugely soft mouthfeel with mostly tight carbonation, leading to a somewhat chewy texture. There’s good attenuation and what sweetness is left does help balance all of this spicy whiskey.
What seems to be going on here is that they’ve got a base beer ~7.5% and put it in fresh whiskey barrels, pulling around 2.2% more alcohol. That’s almost 1/3 of the original abv that you’ve added just from the liquor, without the resulting maltiness that would come from adding it through actual mashing/fermentation. So that does make the base beer seem a little light/thin/watery relative to the strong whiskey flavors. Still, I would hardly call the beer "thin" overall, and this is a Belgian beer, which isn’t going to be as thick and chewy as an Imperial Stout that most people are used to. It would be nice if they dialed back a little of the whiskey (maybe took it out of the barrel a few months earlier), but this is still very well-made beer and impeccably clean.