Nancy
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating|
Score
7.82
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Nancy is a tart ale that brings local cherries together with Brettanomyces yeast. The beer is brewed onto a blend of Maine-grown Balaton and Montmorrency cherries. It ferments for over a year in a stainless steel tank with the cherries and Brettanomyces. Copper in color, Nancy’s flavor is a medley of citrus, cherry, and pie spice, with a hint of graham cracker. The finish is dry and refreshingly tart.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours bright orange into a tulip. Tart cherry and brett aromas. Sharp with dark cherry upfront turning very dry and parching citrus before the lasting, mellow marshmallow finish. That’s nice....
Tried
on 03 Feb 2015
at 16:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a light reddish color ale with a nice large bubbly head with good retention and some light lacing. Aroma of tart cherry notes with limited acidity notes is quiet charming. Taste is also dominated by tart cherry with light residual sugar notes with some light oak notes also noticeable. Acidity level is well balanced which is great. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Well brewed and quite enjoyable with nice drinkability level.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2015
at 21:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of GT2. Pours tiny hazy pale orange with a small offwhite head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sour and fruity with crackers, lemon juice, sweet and sour cherries, yoghurt, cherry pits, hay, dry soil, barnyard, green apple skins, lemon zest and hints of cinnamon. Taste is sour and fruity with crackers, white bread, lemon juice, yoghurt, sweet and sour cherries, hay, dry soil, minerals, apple skins, lemon zest and cinnaomin. Mouthfeel is soft, round, slightly dry, tiny astringent and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sour with cracker,s white bread, lemon juice, sour cherries, green apples, yoghurt, hay, dry soil, minerals and lemon zest. Very drinkable tasty cherry sour...
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2015
at 12:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a hazy peach with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has lots of leaves and a bit of wood with a growing sour cherry note. Flavor has more of a combination of leaves and sour cherry with decent acidic kick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2015
at 18:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
375 c&c from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent gold with a slight, transient white head. Aroma of tart/sour cherry. Takes me back to West Vlaanderen. Med body or so. Flavor is cherry and tart/sour. It’s a bit acidic. Finishes dry and tart/sour. Nailed the style. West Flanders red style. Color is a bit light, but what the hey.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2014
at 18:53
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Amazing cherry twist at the end of this that really combines well with grapefruit bretta elements. Pours hazy golden with ok head and lacing. I love the smell of this. Tangy finish with long-lasting cherry notes. Bottle pour at Churchkey thanks to Travlr.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2014
at 07:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from the Drinkery Derry Clear deep golden with a tinge of pink and a huge bubbly white head that persists for quite a while. Aromas of earth and ash with a solid lactic twinge. Lemon and tart cherries drip off the edge of my nose. The flavor is piercing lemony tartness with a bit of tart cherry to back it up. Earth and funk with just a hint of balsamic round us out quite nicely. Very nice brew, I would have expected a bit more of a reddish hue honestly, but I would drink the crap out of this beer if it were more readily available.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2014
at 15:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
The beer is dull gold in color. Cloudy. Small white head. Not much in the way of bubbles after a minute of settling. The aroma is cherry pie and earthy funk. Cherries are sweet and sour. Funk isn’t terribly deep but it’s nice enough. Might develop well with some time. Taste is medium sour. Somewhat lighter on the fruit in the taste. Some cherry but it’s more just funk and sour. Varied acidity. Pretty good pucker, particularly as it warms. Solid sour. More good work from Allagash.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2014
at 23:43
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Brian - thanks man! Pours hazy golden, medium white head, dissipates slowly, great lacing. Aroma is dusty dusty dusty, just a touch of cherries and some basement funk. Flavor is light plus tart, ilght funkiness, lemon, standard basement and dusty notes; no cherry apparent in taste. Light body, medium plus carbonation. Quite the tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2014
at 13:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 2
Overall 7.5
Sour cherry, oak, crabapple nose, very faint cobweb. Clear amber, medium head with little retention. Very tart, barely ripe crabapple. Cherries do not show until then finish. Stinging mouthfeel, which I can’t tell if it’s from the carbonation or sourness, either way, it’s distracting. A little over the top. After letting the beer sit for a few hours, I realized it was simply overcarbonated. It’s still very sour, but is much better warm and flat. Cheese and oak become more noticeable
Tried
from Can
on 08 Nov 2014
at 12:56