James and Julie
(has 1 batch)
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.49
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James and Julie is our take on a Flemish sour brown and offers an aroma of raisins, figs, cherries, and caramelized sugar. Mahogany in color, this medium-bodied ale finishes with clean acidity and a hint of spice. We brew this sour brown ale with Pilsner, Special B, Maize, and Chocolate Malt and ferment it with our house yeast strain. It then ages for two years on stainless steel with our own blend of Lactobacillus and Pediococcus cultures.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
375ml bottle pours a clear burnt orange/brown with no head. Nose has both dried and fresh cherries, apple cider vinegar, acetic acid, wood pulp, orange rind. Flavor is tart with vinegar, acetic, a little medicinal, apple cider and apple cider vinegar, raisin, pine sol. Tart and nearly hot on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2016
at 19:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 c&c from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours bright copper with a transient beige head. Aroma of mildly sour cherry with some other things. Med body or so. It’s rather sour, with cherry and wood. The pedio paper thing is present, but for a change it works well. Very sour, very woody. Very tasty. Very nice.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2016
at 22:20
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from a bottle dated 08/24/2015. Aroma is rather fruity with lots of raisin, cherry, figs, and some berry notes. Some medium light caramel notes with a light nuttiness and faint chocolate. Some medium light acidity is present in the aroma. Pours a fairly clear, burnt amber color with some copper hues and a medium sized, somewhat thin, tan head that recedes to the edges where a slight film lingers. Flavor has a moderate acidity but it is balanced by a nice sweetness. Some light caramel and burnt sugar notes with a faint chocolate note. Lots of cherry, fig, and berry notes with some raisins as well. Some lingering acidity and fruit notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth, Overall, this is a very nice beer. Clean acidity with lots of fruit character and some balanced sweetness to cut the acidity. Nice malt profile as well. Acidity may be a touch too strong, but otherwise ideal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2016
at 00:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Currant, cranberry, oak, dank basement, blackberry aroma. Hazy copper, thick yellow head, little retention. Tart and tangy, red currant, crabapple, cranberry and blackberry, intense. Light and spritzy. Wonderful flavor and complexity.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2016
at 18:38
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Candia Rd Slightly hazy light amber color with a decent sized tightly bubbled off white head that shows moderate retention. Sour cherries and lemons with bits of caramel and brown sugar on the nose as well as a light balsamic. Light brown sugary malt flavor with some prunes figs and raisins as well as sour cherries lemons and a touch of red wine vinegar. Pretty impressive Flanders style brew, I enjoyed the hell out of it!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2016
at 22:42
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 ml corked and caged bottle poured into a Spiegelau tulip. Bottled on August 24, 2015. Hazy reddish amber with about 1.5 fingers of beige head. Aromas of berries, cherries, vinegar, some oak, a little funky cheese. Tastes of cherries, vinegar, oak, red grapes. Nicely balanced tartness. Medium-light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 20:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
375mL bottled 8/24/15, drunk 12/4/15.
Good clarity throughout this dark auburn liquid, leaving the sediment behind. Light beige head atop is large and slowly fades to cover.
Fairly straightforward, to-style nose is quite fruity, with plentiful cherry/raspberry esters and light brown sugar notes. Acetic acid definitely prevalent, though certainly not problematic, in my estimation. There is a good deal of "sharpness" to it, and perhaps some alcohol is mixing in there, as well as the lactic acid. Peppery and other various spicy phenols noted.
Bold, rather aggressive flavors showcase plenty of acetic acid, with prune-like acidity as well as toffee, raisin and light cherry. Heavily sweet/sour juxtaposition, which is very surprising to me, given that this has spent two years in stainless and 3.5 months in the bottle. Would have expected something much more mellow and homogenous, but mellow this is not. Lots of sharp acidity lingering and the sweet notes are a bit much too, but I wouldn’t go as far as to call it an acetone bomb. Still, plenty of enjoyable flavors here and good texture/carbonation as one would expect from Allagash.
Good clarity throughout this dark auburn liquid, leaving the sediment behind. Light beige head atop is large and slowly fades to cover.
Fairly straightforward, to-style nose is quite fruity, with plentiful cherry/raspberry esters and light brown sugar notes. Acetic acid definitely prevalent, though certainly not problematic, in my estimation. There is a good deal of "sharpness" to it, and perhaps some alcohol is mixing in there, as well as the lactic acid. Peppery and other various spicy phenols noted.
Bold, rather aggressive flavors showcase plenty of acetic acid, with prune-like acidity as well as toffee, raisin and light cherry. Heavily sweet/sour juxtaposition, which is very surprising to me, given that this has spent two years in stainless and 3.5 months in the bottle. Would have expected something much more mellow and homogenous, but mellow this is not. Lots of sharp acidity lingering and the sweet notes are a bit much too, but I wouldn’t go as far as to call it an acetone bomb. Still, plenty of enjoyable flavors here and good texture/carbonation as one would expect from Allagash.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2015
at 15:14