A Belgian style stout, the Allagash Black is something delightfully different.  It pours black in color (bet you didn’t see that coming) and has a slight light tan head.  Packaging is sleek and sexy (i do love a cork and cage).   Tastes of chocolate, burnt coffee and a clearly Belgian style yeast.  Full flavored and complex with a pleasingly bitter aftertaste.  Goes down smooth and easy.

This is just the way I like my stouts: dark, dry and full bodied.   Hey Allagash, I went black – and it was delicious.

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I am not sure who Erik is, or if he was in fact a short fat man  – but what I am certain of is that he is bitter and a bit dry.

As a matter of fact, Erik here was a bit drier than I would like.   A little bit smoky and some flavor of burnt brown sugar in there.  I would even go so far as to say a bit sour.  An interesting Belgian spin on an Irish style.  That’s because Stouterik is brewed by the folks at Brasserie De La Senne / De Zenne Brouwerij in Belgium.  Yes, I cut and pasted the brewery name from a real beer site because I didn’t even feel like trying to figure out what it says.

I will give the Stouterik props for being reasonable in ABV, making this drinkable on a rainy Sunday afternoon – but as for the important question of  would I have another?  Maybe  if you were buying…

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