Allagash Brewing Company Confluence Ale

Confluence Ale

 

Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.35
ABV: 7.5% IBU: - Ticks: 73
Allagash Confluence is a strong golden ale that benefits from mixed fermentation and dry hopping techniques. Brewed with a blend of imported and domestic Pilsner malt, as well as a small portion of caramel malt, Confluence boasts a complex malty profile.

Both our house yeast strain and our proprietary Brettanomyces yeast strain are used in fermentation. This layered approach creates a unique blend of fruit and spice flavors along with an incredibly silky mouthfeel.

After fermentation, Confluence undergoes a lengthy aging process in stainless steel that allows its complex flavors to fully develop. Just prior to bottling, it is dry hopped with Glacier hops, providing a pleasant, fruity aroma.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught from the tiger. Poured a very transparent gold, hops/floral and a very clean finish. Good stuff.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:00


7

late check in.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:24


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

2018 version on tap at Farmhouse Tap and Grill. Hazed gold. Thin, dense, bright white head. Nose has light, lemony brett. Straw. Creamy vanilla oak. Grassy hop. Taste is a little sweet and creamy. Some bretty tang. Light bodied. A little drying. Fine carbonation. Light dry finish, with more of the creamy sweetness.

Tried from Draft on 21 Nov 2019 at 21:07


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pour at State of Origin 2018. Light apple and citrus aromas with floral yeast notes as it warms. Wet hay, grass and grainy malt with more stone fruit, peach and citrus. Sweet candi sugar, but some peppery bitterness and dryness on the finish to balance it out.

Tried from Can on 11 Jun 2018 at 03:18


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Dégustée à l'automne 2015 (De mes notes). Merci MAM .

Tried on 21 Aug 2017 at 20:07


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tap at Brick Store Pub, Atlanta. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, tropical fruits, some sweetness, some harshness, some Belgian yeast and malts.

Tried from Draft on 11 Feb 2017 at 18:29


8.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Tap. Pours clear golden, large white creamy head, long lasting with nice lacing. Aroma is a bit dusty, lemon, wood, Brett, basements, floral perfume. Flavor is very light sweet, light bitter, light funk, hint of tartness. Mineral water notes along with lemon zest and super clean Brett. Light plus body, really soft mouthfeel. Solid beer.

Tried from Draft on 30 Aug 2016 at 22:18


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sample in less than perfect condition No head, muddy orange-yellow beer, full of mini UFO’s. Vegetables, celeri (raw), faintly spicy, and a tad mineral. Wild yeast aromas, if mildly so. First spicy-sweetish, then suddenly quite dry-hoppy, only to revert to the spiciness, now spiked with floormop Brett. Uneasy balance, not attractive. Leaving a bitterish-oily film behind, light body. Sample undercarbonated. Not convinced. Thansk to M & L V, for all the effort!

Tried on 06 Apr 2016 at 13:01


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

655 ml. bottle sampled @ “Sir Goatie McGoat S&G Tasting”. Thank you Mathieu87 and/or PriorL! Golden, little white head. Nose is huge funk, dank cat pee funk, but also quite sweet, sugary. Taste is massive weird cat pee , some dank hops, sugar, oily, faintly sour, mineral, lemon but also sugar & malts. Lightly mineral body. Strange but enjoyable, touch too odd for me.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2016 at 09:03


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at Allagash. It pours cloudy gold with a thick white head. The nose is soft, bready, straw, hay, light funk, banana, cracker and clove rock. The taste is crisp, clean, bitter, alcohol, bready malt, funk, straw, light cinnamon, cardamom, wood and dried orange with a dry, spiced finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. I was a touch disappointed with this one. The alcohol plays too big a role in this one. OK.

Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2015 at 07:56