Allagash Brewing Company Cherry Lime Times

Cherry Lime Times

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.36
ABV: 4.9% IBU: - Ticks: 5
Inspired by cherry-lime slushies and hazy summer evenings at the drive-in, we took a foudre-aged, session-strength sour ale and aged it on fresh, Maine-grown cherries for around four months. Just before it was ready, we added fresh lime zest for that extra citrus kick. We hope our Cherry Lime Times helps you create some of your own.

Grains: Local Pale Malt, Malted Red Wheat, Victory Malt, Maine-Grown Flaked Spelt, Maine-Grown Rolled Oats
Hops: Hallertau, Loral
Yeast: House
Spices/Other: Local Cherries, Lime Zest, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at the Dec. 2024 PS tasting, 12/14/24. Clear gold, no head. Aroma of funk, lime. Taste is funk, cherry, lime. Simple, strong funk.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2025 at 19:44


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared by my brother: pours very pale reddish with almost no head. Aroma is cherry and lime aromas along with wood, light funk. Not a very huge aroma. Taste is sour and quite acidic. Light cherry and lime notes. Nice finish. I wish it was less acidic.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2021 at 01:17


8

Definitely sessiony light but solid like and cherry.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2021 at 21:03


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

8-13-21 Grand Liquor

Tried on 14 Aug 2021 at 01:44


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

375mL bottled Feb 2021, drunk 7/14/21.
Bright, light pink, good clarity with a small, pinkish-tinted head that shows low retention.
Nose is chalk-full of cherry. Lots of cherry but it doesn't dominate. Lime helps cut some of the perceived sweetness and the bacterial influence is moderate. No acetic character and only mild lactic and moderate Brett-derived acids. Malts are soft and balance gently, adding light honey, cereal-like grain/biscuit and it finishes with soft, but lovely cherry and mild lime notes. No alcohol or flaw.
Big cherry flavor, unsurprisingly, with very light lime zest that seems to create less lime character than the juice would and I think that works really well as it lets the cherry shine and keeps the beer from getting too acidic (lime can dominate/ruin very quickly). Soft, malty texture with fairly tight carbonation and good attenuation. Soft, mild but still full of cherry and Brett flavor. Honey and biscuit-like malts gently keep things in balance. Excellent. Tons of flavor for its size.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2021 at 01:35