Fox Leap
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.69
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Wild Ale Aged on Cherries
Foxes are known to enjoy fresh cherries—as are our brewers. We take nearly two years to make each batch of this blend of wild ale: one part we age for twelve months in bourbon barrels and the other we sour in a stainless steel tank for eighteen months. After blending, we age it on 3,250 pounds of local balaton and montmorency cherries for an additional four months. The prize: a sour beer filled with fresh notes of tart cherry, malty undertones, and balanced sourness. Take the leap into this bounty of cherry goodness.
Foxes are known to enjoy fresh cherries—as are our brewers. We take nearly two years to make each batch of this blend of wild ale: one part we age for twelve months in bourbon barrels and the other we sour in a stainless steel tank for eighteen months. After blending, we age it on 3,250 pounds of local balaton and montmorency cherries for an additional four months. The prize: a sour beer filled with fresh notes of tart cherry, malty undertones, and balanced sourness. Take the leap into this bounty of cherry goodness.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
375 mL bottle from Niemuth's, 7/5/20. This holiday weekend I'm drinking through the US states to celebrate. This is the last one as I'm out of states I haven't already ticked in the last two days. But its a pretty impressive list... OH, WI, MI, NY, CA, CO, VA, IL, HI, MN, MO. And now finishing with Maine. Hazy red, medium fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of cherry, oak, funk, pepper. Taste is tart jammy cherries, oak, charred oak (maybe that's bourbon?), vegetal notes. Medium bodied, lingering tartness, bright. Been a nice journey!
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on 06 Jul 2020
at 01:51