Allagash Brewing Company Pick Your Own

Pick Your Own

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating
Score
7.89
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 29
Pick Your Own begins as a sour red ale that’s aged in an oak foudre with Lactobacillus and Pediococcus for two years. After adding fresh, local raspberries, cherries, strawberries, and blueberries, we age it for an additional three months. The finished beer is a vibrant, ruby red with an aroma of ripe berries and vanilla. As you might expect, berries fill the flavor. Pick Your Own finishes dry with notes of bread crust and a lingering, tart juiciness.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from Chris M: pours red with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is loads of raspberries and cherries and other berries, but those are less well represented. It is lightly funky. Taste is fairly acidic, loads of fruitiness, quite sour. Nice aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2021 at 02:22


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

Bottle from Beer Run, 1.18.20. Murky dark red, thin foamy head. Aroma of funk, berries, earth. Taste is funk, cherry, berry, pepper, lemon. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2020 at 21:38


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

2018 bottle. Pours a clear ruby-bronze color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lace. Aroma of tart fruit, oak, yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of tart raspberry, oak, funky yeast, cherry and biscuit malt. The finish is oaky and tart with a berry and cherry aftertaste. Good beer all around.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2020 at 21:04


8.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, 375 ml, shared with Miro B and Max. Pours ruby with small white head. Fruity, funk, malty, dark fruit, berries, cherries, intensive sourness, puckering, medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2019 at 22:21


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle: Poured a reddish orange with an off white/tan head. Aroma is tart berries, cherries and raspberries, oaky. Taste is tart to with oaky wood, cherries, berries, really sinks into the palate.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2019 at 21:50


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a clear red with a hint of pink and a near white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is full of tart berries with raspberry and cherry coming through with some oak supporting. Flavor has a great berry combination that is supported by oak and a nice tartness.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2019 at 00:53


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

Refrigerated 12.7 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Red with big pink head. Aroma is light berries, medium body, medium/well carbonation, and good little lacing. Taste is tart berries.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2019 at 00:08


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

Crisp and clear golden coloured body with a thinnish faint white head and a bit of effervescence noticeable towards the bottom. Aroma of crisp berries, light fruit, a dose of hay, some wheat, yeast and a touch of light astringency noticeable at the very end. Light-bodied; Strong fruity flavour at first that shows the pungent Belgian yeast strain, a dash of grass, hay, flowers, light alcohol, bitter malts and ending with a touch of apples and pears. Aftertaste shows more of the yeast notes with a dry grainy and malt profile that shows some subdued alcohol, berry and fig flavours that ends with a lot of astringency and a dose of funk, all from the yeast strain. Overall, a nice and enjoyable beer that is more of a Belgian Single than a wild or fruit-based beer. This was a touch disappointing for me, given that I was hoping that much more fruit flavours came out, especially in terms of a soured beer, but this hits very elegantly, as most Ally beers do, but this was good, just not great, and again, probably not worth the price premium. I sampled this ten ounce pour on draught at Blind Tiger in New York, New York for US$10,00 on 09-June-2019. B

Tried on 10 Jun 2019 at 06:54


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at Rattle N Hum West. Pours red. Cherry, blueberry, campfire, raspberry, sharp finish. Medium body. Excellent.

Tried from Draft on 01 Jun 2019 at 18:45


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

375ml bottle pours a clear, starbright garnet amber with basically no head. Nose is nice, tart with berries, raspberry and strawberry, some apple cider vinegar. Flavor follows with raspberry and red wine vinegar, strawberry vinaigrette, cherry too. Tart finish. 7 4 7 3 13

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2019 at 19:18