Musette
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.98
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A Musette is a musical instrument in the bagpipe family. This is a reference the scotch-style ale which is a popular style for Belgian brewers. Musette undergoes a caramelization process in the kettle, where the first runnings are condensed and caramelized, imparting a unique and subtle caramel character and amber color to the beer. Following fermentation, a portion of it is aged in oak bourbon barrels for three months.Flavors of raisin, caramel, and toasted oak come through.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Murky amber with tiny white head. Malty aroma with wood and ripe fruits. Sweet flavour with caramel, oak, bourbon, toasted malt, fruity and hoppy notes finishing it of bitter.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2008
at 09:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Body is a fairly deep brown with a bit of murkiness and an inch or so of head (it seems to be sticking around, too). Aromas are sweet fruitiness (dark fruit), a bit of an earthy direction and seems a little musty. Flavor has a very vinous quality up front and ends with a bit of a raisin sweetness with some bourbon burn... I’m not sure these three elements belong in the same bottle. Alcohol really comes through heavy in the finish (a little like drinking jet fuel or something). Burps have a bit of a smokey flavor to them.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2008
at 22:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(6/29/08) Bottle sample at RBESG08 grand tasting in Plzen. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma of malt, oak and some dark fruits. Sweet malty flavor with caramel and some fruitiness. Medium-bodied. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2008
at 13:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled@RBESG 2008 Grand Tasting
Clear amber color, small white head. Oaky with some vanilla in the nose. Liquerish, malty with some vanilla flavors in wellbalanced package. Some oxidation and fizzyness in the finish.
Clear amber color, small white head. Oaky with some vanilla in the nose. Liquerish, malty with some vanilla flavors in wellbalanced package. Some oxidation and fizzyness in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2008
at 08:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
RBESG08 grand tasting Murky red brown body. Crappy fruity, malty and dyeasty aroma. Yoghurty taste with an aggressive something that might be bitterness but I can’t decypher it. Ok fruity maltiness. A respectable beer but I really didn’t dig it.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2008
at 10:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at RBESG08 ... copper coloured ... sweet fruity ... juicy malts ... very fruity
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2008
at 13:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is wood, lots of nectar, some pine and also a bit leathery and berryish notes. Flavour is fruits, spices, herbs, some berries, yeast and mild leatheryness in the background.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2008
at 23:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled at RBESG. Cloudy amber. Perfumy oaky nose. Fruity and estery with medium body. Woody and full flavoured with some caramel and floral strawberries. Intense. An American version of a Belgian version of a Scottish beer...
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2008
at 03:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
750ml bottle@Noogfest4.0-pours an off white ring and copper color. Aroma is medium malt, yeast-apple. Taste is medium malt, yeast-apple/champagne, herbal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2008
at 19:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange to amber with a diminished white head. Light fruity yeasty aroma, sweet and with a mild vanilla note. Quite sweet flavoured. Shows a light yeasy spice note and a mild smothing vanilla oak flavour. Ligh alcohol warming finish. To sweet for my liking although the vanilla oak smoothness suites the beer well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2008
at 13:44