Allagash Brewing Company Ghoulschip

Ghoulschip

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Autumn
Score
7.53
ABV: 8.2% IBU: - Ticks: 28
Our favorite Halloween tradition is brewing Ghoulschip with fresh, local pumpkins, molasses, and raw pumpkin seeds. On All Hallows’ Eve itself, we send the beer to rest among the specters in our Coolship, where it collects wild microflora from the chill Maine air. The beer then ferments in a stainless tank on our house yeast before heading into oak barrels, where it sits in waiting for up to three years.

Although Ghoulschip isn’t spontaneously fermented, we rely on natural microflora to sour it. The finished product is a blend of one-, two-, and three-year-old beer. In the first sip, caramelized malt and a mild acidity balance Ghoulschip’s subtle earthiness. The finish of this light golden beer is dry and tart. Boo!
 

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

Tried from Draft at ChurchKey on 06 Dec 2025 at 22:10


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

Sample at the 6th Annual Craft Beer Festival by The Community Tap on 04/21/2018. Clear orange-gold color with a medium white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Aroma of tart fruit, funky yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of vinous oak, tart fruit, yeast and caramel malt. The finish is oaky and tart with a wine and citrus aftertaste. Pretty good all around.

Tried from Draft on 05 Jul 2018 at 19:21


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle - Sweet molasses, yoghurt and bready. Cloudy gold with a small white head. Sweet bready and molasses with some yogurt notes. Odd.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2017 at 03:25


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle at Kump's during non-Belgian lambics tasting. Pours a hazy golden with a weak white head. Aroma is funky and pumpkin, very smooth and creamy. Similar taste woth some spicy notes. This one is interesting, reminds me Belgian Blonde Ales.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2017 at 02:08


9

Incredible. Super tart but loads of balance and peach and plum and white wine. Bela.

Tried on 27 Aug 2016 at 00:23


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Small white head over clear orangeish golden beer. Bretts, saddlesoap and fine sherry, as much as dried peach. Remarkably complex nose. Old wine, sherry, fine malts, bit sweet. Medium bodied, seems thinned by... Great! A pumpkin beer I really like is rare, to put it mildly.

Tried on 12 Jun 2016 at 02:56


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle thanks to Toby. Pours out a hazy peach color topped with a small white head. Nose is lots of oak barrel plenty sour funk some fruit. Taste is more of the sour tartness funky lots of barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2015 at 21:07


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle as Ghoulschip - pours gold white head - nose and taste of molasses, pumpkin, sour earthy funk and toasted seed - medium body

Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2015 at 20:27


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

Sampled at the brewery. Orange in color liquid with a thicker, huge carbonation level. Aroma is white wine, oak barrel and a earthy spice. Flavor is huge in the white wine barrel. Lingering oak in the finish. It’s almost all wine barrel. Not really my thing.

Tried on 11 Nov 2015 at 11:01


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

Draft pour at the Great Pumpkin beer fest. Listed as Allagash Ghoulschip. This beer made the whole festival worth it. Awesome! Pours a cloudy orange color with a fizz head. Big pucker sour fruit aroma and flavor. Just enough pumpkin to know it’s there. So awesome.

Tried from Draft on 02 Oct 2015 at 19:55