Avancé
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.64
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Ale Aged in Bourbon Barrels and Finished on Strawberries
Avancé is a strong, sour ale with aromas of strawberry preserves and toasted oak. Berries and more oak continue in the flavor, which concludes with a warm, sweet finish. The beer is brewed with multiple sugars including molasses, date sugar, white cane sugar, and dark rock candi. It’s then fermented with four different yeast strains and aged in oak bourbon barrels for a year with Lactobacillus and Pediococcus. After transferring the beer to stainless we add one pound per gallon of fresh, locally picked strawberries and age it for another six months.
Avancé is a strong, sour ale with aromas of strawberry preserves and toasted oak. Berries and more oak continue in the flavor, which concludes with a warm, sweet finish. The beer is brewed with multiple sugars including molasses, date sugar, white cane sugar, and dark rock candi. It’s then fermented with four different yeast strains and aged in oak bourbon barrels for a year with Lactobacillus and Pediococcus. After transferring the beer to stainless we add one pound per gallon of fresh, locally picked strawberries and age it for another six months.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle 375ml @ Cunningham. Pours slightly hazy brown with a beige head. Aroma has notes of malt, strawberry, plastic, tart and funk. Taste is light to medium sweet and medium sour with a long tart, strawberry and funky finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Strawberries has never been a favorite off mine in beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2024
at 18:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Nice tasty beer. The best strawberry beer I have had Unclear amber ish pour and small head on top Fine intensity in the aroma Pleasant dry and a fine acidity Also a fine carbonation level. Easy to drink. Mild strawberry, fruity, yeast, some toffee and some funk in the flavor. [Bottle – shared by Yngwie and Meilby]
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2024
at 08:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 375ml corked. A hazy golden beer with a reddish hue. Small, dense light beige head. The aroma has a decent touch of ripe strawberries, and a touch of burnt plastic. With lemon and some grassy, hayish hints. Tart and full to medium bodied, with a pleasant carbonation. Berries, some toffee-ish malts and a pleasant but gentle funk. Hints of vinegar. Lasting finish. Sure a decent strawberry beer, avoiding the strawberries smelling and tasting like rottening strawberry. 240726
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2024
at 16:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle from Beer Merchants. It pours lightly hazy orangey - amber with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is sweet, sour, tart, tangy, ripe strawberry, strawberry jam, strawberry shortcake, honeyed grain, brioche, vanilla, funk as it warms, touch of bourbon soaked oak, touch of spice and some heady booze. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy upfront, lovely bright fresh strawberry, fresh red berry, light raspberry, minimal acidity, fruit cake, nip of alcohol booze, dry oak, earth, tannin, touch of funk, oily, honeyed vibe and light spice with a drying finale. Medium body and soft, but lifting carbonation. Really like the combo of the base beer, aging and strawberry. Works surprisingly well. Quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2024
at 14:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
8% ABV. Aromas are a pleasant, interesting blend of strawberries, malt and sour. Flavors are similar to nose, tart dominates and then strawberry and malt in the background. A little fruity sweet in the back but dry overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2024
at 18:51
8/10
Vinegary
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2020
at 00:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Churchkey. Hazy amber pour with a light beige head. Tart fruit, oak, bourbon, strawberry. Intense.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jul 2019
at 17:19
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
375ml bottle thanks to Eric. Pours out rusty pink color topped with a small fizzy head. Nose is big in your face strawberries some nice barrel notes and a well balance sweet sour. Taste is more of the nice strawberries sweet sour balance with the barrel is amazing. Very well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2018
at 22:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at the Ginger Man, pours a hazy amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out wild yeast, tart strawberries, and a touch of bourbon. Flavour is unbelievably complex and multifaceted, with an incredibly cohesive mix of bourbon barrels, tart strawberries, and some wild yeast. Nicely acidic, with wonderful strawberries and bourbon on the finish. Fantastic.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2018
at 07:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Dive Bar, NYC. Pours hazy dark orange with small white head. Strawberries, wood, very vinous, some caramel, oak, strong sourness, some bourbon. Soft carbonation, Medium bodied. Very nice this one.
Tried
from Draft
at
Dive Bar - 96th
on 01 Jan 2018
at 03:40