House Beer
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.14
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Allagash House is brewed in the tradition of Belgian house beer—lower-ABV brews made for the brewers themselves to enjoy after work. The aroma has hop-derived pear and grapefruit notes, while House’s smooth malt flavor is balanced by light hop bitterness. For sale at the brewery only.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle sample at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Thanks Amit. Hazy yellow-golden. Aroma of fruity esters, yeast, light spiciness. Flavor has light sweetness, fruity esters, mild spiciness, and a bitterish grassy finish. Medium-bodied. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2016
at 09:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared by Jack, thanks! Pours a hazy orange with a gold hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has strong sweet grains with a decent amount of Belgian yeast with a bit of biscuit and light fruits. Flavor has grass and grains with a bit of biscuit and a Belgian yeast backbone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2015
at 22:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, a very thoughtful extra from Lukaduke, bottled 6/10/15 and drunk 10/7/15.
Soft tangerine-copper-toned body shows great clarity, leaving light sediment behind. Light carbonation creates a small off-white head that quickly recedes to a ring.
Awesome doughy-peppery nose smells like all the good things about Allagash’s house yeast. No banana or peach, no alcohol, nothing sharp. A touch of earth, light apples/cider notes and soft vanilla-tinged doughiness and easygoing black pepper lingering on the end.
Flavor continues to impress. Tight carbonation and a supply-malted body, especially given it size, propel delicious black pepper phenols, spicy/herbal hops, a pinch of honey and light vanilla, marshmallow and cellar notes on the finish. It’s all wonderfully balanced and the maltiness plays wonderfully against the peppery phenols and light hop bitterness. Very, very drinkable; a table beer indeed, and a delicious one at that. One of the better table beers/abbey singels I’ve had in a long time and much maltier than any that I can remember (most have a bit of an astringency/dryness issue). Wish you could buy 6 packs of this stuff around here. I would drink this all the time. Thanks so much, Luke!
Soft tangerine-copper-toned body shows great clarity, leaving light sediment behind. Light carbonation creates a small off-white head that quickly recedes to a ring.
Awesome doughy-peppery nose smells like all the good things about Allagash’s house yeast. No banana or peach, no alcohol, nothing sharp. A touch of earth, light apples/cider notes and soft vanilla-tinged doughiness and easygoing black pepper lingering on the end.
Flavor continues to impress. Tight carbonation and a supply-malted body, especially given it size, propel delicious black pepper phenols, spicy/herbal hops, a pinch of honey and light vanilla, marshmallow and cellar notes on the finish. It’s all wonderfully balanced and the maltiness plays wonderfully against the peppery phenols and light hop bitterness. Very, very drinkable; a table beer indeed, and a delicious one at that. One of the better table beers/abbey singels I’ve had in a long time and much maltier than any that I can remember (most have a bit of an astringency/dryness issue). Wish you could buy 6 packs of this stuff around here. I would drink this all the time. Thanks so much, Luke!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2015
at 23:16
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Mild smoke and ash nose, dried beans. Cloudy amber, medium head, some lacing. Grassy, lima beans, maybe a bit of malt. Light body, easy carbonation. Little ale character, let alone Belgian ale yeast. Rather lager-y. Allagash isn’t very good at making meh beers. Stick to making good stuff, not beer for schlubs.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2015
at 22:07
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle-trade from Mr Drake. Offwhite-gold. A-floral/lemon, bready lt malt. T-coriander, bready lt malt, slight citrus. Very quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2015
at 14:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from the brewery. First live rate since January. Backlog all done. Yay!!! Hazy yellow, medium fizzy off-white head. Decent retention. Aroma of spicy hops, pale malt. The taste is bready malt, spicy, herbal hops, hints of tea. Medium bodied, well balanced, delicate, drinkable. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2015
at 02:22
8/10
From New Year's Day.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2014
at 09:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours a clear dark gold with one ring of white head. Nose has plenty of candy sugar, orange, lemon, clove, yeast. Flavor is well balanced, sweet candy, honey, orange, lemon, some pepper, some coriander. Clean finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2013
at 11:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden appearance. Herbal nose with a mild bitterness. Hint of bananas and some acidic fruits. Some peaches and a stinging grassy taste. Is pretty good but I wouldn’t drink it daily
Tried
on 28 Oct 2013
at 06:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Brewdown. Pours cloudy gold with white head. Nose and taste of citrus, peel, biscuit malt and lemon. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 19:30