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Fluxus 2014
Allagash Brewing Company
- From:
- Allagash Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 9.14%
- Reviews:
- 13
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 26, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 39
This year's Fluxus is a bier de miel brewed with a blend of 2-row and vienna malts, spruce tips and honey. It was hopped with Hallertau and was fermented with the Allagash house yeast.
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Reviewed by LeRose from Massachusetts
4.06/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a very slightly hazy honey color (duh) with about a half inch of white foamy head that falls to a ring and a huge island. Incredible cling to the glass - the bubbles coat and slide elegantly back to the liquid essentially replenishing themselves. Clears with warmth and the color is beautiful
The aroma is malty sweet and bready. There's just a flyover from the spruce tips giving a faint pine-like note to the smell. Honey also comes in heavy on the nose, lending a more earthy sweetness. Faint herbal and floral hop notes that gain strength with warmth. There's a little bit of lemon.
The honey flavor leads in the taste layered over a slightly sweet, very classic malt taste. Bread with honey comes to mind, but dialed back from eating a slice. There's very little spruce - just a vague pine-like taste and that's fine with me. I think spruce can be overused and become heavy-handed. The hint is just right for me. The hops have likely faded, but there is still a floral/ grassy taste to be found. Theh took the "miel" part seriously - honey- driven primary flavor and everything else supports that base. Nice peppercorn spice on the back end keeps the sweet in check as does a very, very mild bitterness.
Feel - pretty lively carbonation, medium body mainly driven by the honey. It's a little sticky but not syrupy, although overall it feels light on the sip. Very drinkable.
Overall, why didn't I drink one sooner? This is excellent now - I'd really like to know first hand what a freshie tasted like and understand how much this has tamed down over time.
Feb 26, 2024The aroma is malty sweet and bready. There's just a flyover from the spruce tips giving a faint pine-like note to the smell. Honey also comes in heavy on the nose, lending a more earthy sweetness. Faint herbal and floral hop notes that gain strength with warmth. There's a little bit of lemon.
The honey flavor leads in the taste layered over a slightly sweet, very classic malt taste. Bread with honey comes to mind, but dialed back from eating a slice. There's very little spruce - just a vague pine-like taste and that's fine with me. I think spruce can be overused and become heavy-handed. The hint is just right for me. The hops have likely faded, but there is still a floral/ grassy taste to be found. Theh took the "miel" part seriously - honey- driven primary flavor and everything else supports that base. Nice peppercorn spice on the back end keeps the sweet in check as does a very, very mild bitterness.
Feel - pretty lively carbonation, medium body mainly driven by the honey. It's a little sticky but not syrupy, although overall it feels light on the sip. Very drinkable.
Overall, why didn't I drink one sooner? This is excellent now - I'd really like to know first hand what a freshie tasted like and understand how much this has tamed down over time.
Fluxus 2014 from Allagash Brewing Company
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
159 ratings
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