Allagash Brewing Company Once Upon an Orchard: Cherries & Raspberries

Once Upon an Orchard: Cherries & Raspberries

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series
Score
7.15
ABV: 7.7% IBU: - Ticks: 6
Once, a traveling group of brewers happened upon a farmer stuck in a ditch. His cart had too many fresh raspberries and cherries. The brewers helped to push his cart out, but he soon was stuck again. So, as payment, the farmer gave them bushels and bushels of berries, which the brewers decided to age in a dark, tart beer. The result was a rich, complex beer filled with notes of fresh cherry, ripe raspberry, pie spice, and a hint of cocoa. And they sipped it happily ever after.

Grains: Munich Malt, Chocolate Wheat, Midnight Wheat, Roasted Barley

Hops: Cascade, Northern Brewer

Yeast: House & Brettanomyces

Fruit: Fresh Cherries & Raspberries

Spices/Other: Aged in an Oak Foudre, Local Honey
 

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7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

10/05/2025 Sample at Palace Hall, Malmö May tasting - tart berry fruity with notes of raspberry, some cherry and plum notes, medium body and nice acidity, tart fruity finish.

Tried on 10 May 2025 at 04:30


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Thanks ClarkVV on the 500 ml bottle share share! Brown color, Aroma is lightly acidic with cherry and sharp oak. Way too much like a sour brown for my own liking. Acid and sharp oak lingering in the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2024 at 13:54


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

March 2023 375mL bottle drunk 10/20/24. Clear chestnut. Small, reddish-beige head quickly to ring. Some dark, crusty bread, light, peppery phenols and mild, succulent cherries. No huge acidity from the raspberries. Lingering vanilla, brown sugar and juicy fruits. Juicy, with bigger raspberry acidity than the nose portends. Succulent cherry, mild brown malts and some bread. Dry, lots of lingering fruit tartness. Lighter body, but not thin. Maybe a bit more acid than I'm in to these days but the fruit is lovely and the beer well-executed.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2024 at 13:43


7

Thanks Clark. Tart jammy berries, acetic.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2024 at 09:42


7

A dark reddish brown ale with a thin lacing light mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity ground cherry with cork, light buttery notes, light Epsom salts, pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity tart mix of raspberry jam, light acidity, light cherries, lactic acid, light cork, pleasant. Bottle from Bottlecaps, Watertown.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2024 at 00:46