As threatened at the start of the month, I will be reviewing ALL 13 of the special Sierra Nevada Beer Camp collaborations in August. I had my non-drinking wife randomly select the order and the second beer is from Allagash, Myron’s Walk.
“Myron’s Walk is a Belgian-style pale ale combining the best of our two breweries. It features intense citrusy flavor and a complex aroma from the use of fruity and resinous whole-cone Citra and Mosaic hops offset by the complex spicy character of Allagash’s house Belgian yeast strain. ”
I took one sniff and one sip and said, yup, that is Allagash all right. Put this beer into a line-up of their beers and it certainly would not stick out as a collaboration. That coriander and a faintly Indian spice profile is right up front. There is a lemonade quality lurking in the background that makes this a bit more complex and is probably the Sierra Nevada 1/2 of the equation but I wish it was a bit more prominent because the battle goes to the Belgian yeast here. And that is not necessarily a bad thing but when I think of collaborative beers, I hope for a beer that is redolent of neither brewery in total. While still having components of each. As the beer warms up, I start to detect a hint of tea tannin as well.
As we progress through the box o’ beers, I will start to rank them but as of now, the first two are pretty even. Both were very flavorful.
