The brewery: Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, Maine
Description (from the website): "Doomed by a love of pitch-black Porters and our Allagash House Beer, we summoned the recipe for Haunted House. Roasted Barley and Blackprinz malt curse this beer with a gravely dark hue. Hopped with Cascade, Nugget, and Northern Brewer hops, this beer ends with a ghost of coffee-flavored bitterness and hauntingly complex malty palate."
Would I buy it again? I wasn't initially sold on this one, as the heavy dose of hops clash pretty strongly with the dark maltiness of the beer. But I discovered a bit later that this beer pairs quite well with pizza. It washes down the savory saltiness quite effectively. That's a pretty small niche, though, and not quite enough to justify spending more money on it, but if you are eating pizza and this beer is available, they are pretty good together. Also, I do like seeing a fall beer that isn't either pumpkin flavored or an Oktoberfest/Märzen. Variety is always good.
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