Allagash styles changed on BA?

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  1. CheezyBlaster

    CheezyBlaster Initiate (0) Sep 16, 2011 Massachusetts

    Just noticed today that BA shuffled around the styles. Changed Interlude and Confluence from wild ales to saison and belgian strong dark, respectively. This happened yesterday I think, and I only noticed because I had been reading them. I think they also changed a couple of the cool ships as well.
    Edit: maybe BA was just correcting to the Allagash site, because they're listed as saison and strong on there.
     
    #1 CheezyBlaster, Oct 12, 2012
  2. brewbetter

    brewbetter Initiate (0) Jun 2, 2012 Nauru

    I haven't had them, are they sour at all?
     
    #2 brewbetter, Oct 12, 2012
  3. CheezyBlaster

    CheezyBlaster Initiate (0) Sep 16, 2011 Massachusetts

    I haven't had Confluence. However, interlude is super winey/tannic with a sour edge if I recall. Allagash calls it a saison, so I'm probably just blabbering.
     
    #3 CheezyBlaster, Oct 12, 2012
  4. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Probably just correcting. The folks who enter a beer the first time don't always get it correct. :-)
     
    #4 drtth, Oct 12, 2012
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  5. BearsOnAcid

    BearsOnAcid Pooh-Bah (2,239) Mar 17, 2009 Massachusetts
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    Both beers are innoculated with their locally found brettanomyces. They are funky but I don't think of them as wild ales first and that descriptor creates an expectation for a lot of people that Interlude and Confluence don't usually meet.
     
    #5 BearsOnAcid, Oct 12, 2012
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  6. MasterSki

    MasterSki Grand Pooh-Bah (4,848) Dec 25, 2006 Canada (ON)
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    This is correct. The attempt was to make them consistent with beers like Matilda, Saison Vautour, Orval, Fantome, etc. which are not 'wild ales' but simply Belgian styles that tend to have Brett in them.
     
    #6 MasterSki, Oct 13, 2012
  7. UncleJimbo

    UncleJimbo Grand Pooh-Bah (3,771) Sep 11, 2002 Massachusetts
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    Site Editors often correct styles that are incorrect (I know that I do).
     
    #7 UncleJimbo, Oct 27, 2012
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