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Allagash FV13 Arrives [VIDEO]

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Allagash BAM, Aged in Honey Mead Barrels

Allagash Brewing’s (Portland, ME) BAM Ale is a draft only offering aged honey mead barrels. The base beer is mainly made with two row barley, honey malt & rye for spice.

Style:  Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Mead)
Availability: Draft Only, as of 10/4/12

9.6% ABV 

See also: BAT Ale

Allagash BAT Is Aged In Tequila

Allagash Brewing’s (Portland, ME) BAT Ale is a draft only offering aged in tequila. The base beer is mainly made with two row barley, honey malt & rye for spice.

Style:  Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Tequila)
Availability: Draft Only, as of 10/4/12

9.2% ABV 

Posted in Allagash Brewing, New Beers

Allagash Helles Brau Lager

Allagash Helles Brau Lager

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, New Releases

2013 Allagash Fluxus Ships Next Month

It is still a little ways out, but Allagash Brewing Company (Portland, ME) is about ready to ship this year edition of Fluxus. The beer is so named because the style changes each year, 2013’s edition is first and foremost a porter. Wait a minute though, it is not JUST a porter. Fluxus 2013 is brewed with coffee and chocolate malts, along with blood orange pulp and orange zest. Chocolate orange anyone? This edition was created by brewer Patrick Saville.

Look for it by August, 2013 in Allagash’s distribution markets.

Style: Porter (w/ Blood Orange Pulp & Zest)
Hops: Tettnang, Perle, Glacier
Malts: 2 Row Pale, Chocolate, Coffee
Yeast: Abbey Ale

Availability: 750 ml bottles, Draft
Arrival: Late July, 2013

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing

Allagash Barrel Ages Coolship in “Single Barrel One”

Allagash Coolship Single Barrel One

Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) has room separate from the main brewhouse that contains a coolship, which is literally looks a bit like a bathtub. It allows airborne yeast to fall into the beer, spontaneously fermenting the beer. These funky beers are referred to as the Coolship Series.  Above – meet a barrel aged edition of the Coolship Series – Single Barrel One. Aged in bourbon barrels. Release dates TBA.

Style: American Wild Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

8.1% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, New Releases

Allagash FV13 Arrives [VIDEO]

It was born in a standard steel fermenter, relocated to a 2700 gallon foudre (giant oak tanks used for aging usually wine) where it resided for the past 4 years, and then hand bottled and labeled just for your mouth’s enjoyment. Meet FV 13, Allagash’s first foudre beer, available starting today. This American Wild Ale “is a blend of wild yeast and bacteria, a base beer with lots of malt character, and about four years of patience. The finished beer is copper in color, with an aroma of cherries and caramel. The flavor is a blend of sweet and tart, with notes of fruit and caramelized sugar.”

Limited quantities of FV 13 will be available in limited quantities to Allagash’s entire distribution area.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles

8.9% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, Coming Soon

Allagash BAM, Aged in Honey Mead Barrels

Allagash Brewing’s (Portland, ME) BAM Ale is a draft only offering aged honey mead barrels. The base beer is mainly made with two row barley, honey malt & rye for spice.

Style:  Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Mead)
Availability: Draft Only, as of 10/4/12

9.6% ABV 

See also: BAT Ale

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, Coming Soon

Allagash BAT Is Aged In Tequila

Allagash Brewing’s (Portland, ME) BAT Ale is a draft only offering aged in tequila. The base beer is mainly made with two row barley, honey malt & rye for spice.

Style:  Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Tequila)
Availability: Draft Only, as of 10/4/12

9.2% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, Brouwerij De Molen, Coming Soon

Allagash’s Next Draft Offering, Smoke & Beards Collaboration

Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) launched a rotating saison draft only series this year. Edition #1 was Saison Genever. The second release is dubbed Smoke & Beards, and is a collaboration with De Molen.  The beer is a tripel, with lightly smoked cherry wood malt. The yeast is a Chouffe house yeast.

Draft should start arriving late Sept/Oct a various Allagash accounts.

Style: Tripel (Smoked)
Availability: Draft only

?? ABV 

by Reid Ramsay