Allagash Overview

Allagash Brewing Company is a brewery in Portland, Maine, founded by Rob Tod in 1995. The brewery specializes in Belgian-style beers. Rob observed that while German and British-style beers were available throughout the United States, Belgian-style beers were difficult to find. He established a small, 15-barrel brewery and began brewing a beer modeled after a Belgian Wit beer named Allagash White. The beer gets its flavor from the use of wheat in place of barley, as well as the addition of Curaçao orange peel, coriander, and other spices. All of the beers Allagash produces are bottle conditioned. The technique calls for two fermentations, the first in the fermenting tanks and the second in the bottle itself. Allagash was one of the first breweries in the US to build a traditional coolship for spontaneous fermentation by wild yeasts.