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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7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours hazy deep orange, large off white head, dissipates slowly, decent lacing. Aroma starts a bit of nail polish, dust, must, strawberry. Flavor is better, but still a bit of acetone, plenty of strawberry, light plus tart, medium funk. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2016
at 22:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Strawberries and sour plum. Hazy brown pour with ok head and lacing. Tangy finish. Some light citrus. Should be a sour not Belgian strong.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2016
at 20:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7
An experimental twist on the Allagash Four barley wine, matured on oak and macerated with strawberries. Stable, off-white head, misty bronze colour, aroma very much dominated by strawberries - not my favorite scent and therefore not quite to my liking, notes of wood, banana, marzipan, medium dry sherry, sour cream, cognac, passion fruit. Complex taste with an interesting game between sweet and sour, as in an ’oud bruin’, fruity yeast, strawberries coming through but less strongly than I feared, woody and vinous, candi syrup, sourishness wins the game and renders a dry, woody, resinous finish. Interesting and complex, a lot going on here.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2014
at 09:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Thursday night’s Presidential Suite sharing session during RBSG 2014. Thanks! Cloudy golden brown with off-white head. Aromas of oak, raspberries, tart fruit, vinegar, strawberries. Tastes of strawberries, oak, Brett, vinegar. Medium-light body with a dry finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2014
at 22:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - Tart strawberry. Cloudy copper. Tart strawberry with a nice long finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2014
at 22:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours orange. White head. Nose and taste of strawberry, oak, molasses, peach and sour funky fruit. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2014
at 22:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ the peteing zoo. Pours a pinkish ruby appearance with an off white head. Definitely tons of strawberries, oak, slight plastic, yeasty nose. Pretty high carbonation. Some plastic. Thick strawberry flavor. Moderately tart. Slight tannins. Kind of fun but not my favorite. Thanks Luke!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2014
at 22:08
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Wandered into The Jeffrey forgetting it was Allagash night, sweet! This pours ruby orange with great nose of funk, wood and berry. Tastes of lovely amount of fresh strawberries nit overpowering and syrupy or fake tasting. You also get plent of oak, funk, vanilla, and it’s plenty jammy. Tart palate lingering finish. Kick ass beer
Tried
on 27 Mar 2014
at 17:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brewvival 2011. Hazy amber body large rocky tan head Sweet fruit, rum soaked fruit caramel with light tart Sweet lightly tart fruit cherry and caramel flavor Medium body mod high carb
Tried
on 27 Sep 2013
at 12:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml. corked.ABV: 10.8%. Clear medium amber red colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toasted, moderate yeasty, wood, strawberry, light oak - brett. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, strawberry, tart, wood, light leather - funky. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft. [20121019]
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2012
at 08:35