Allagash Brewing Company

Allagash is brewing it the way beer was meant to be. Personal favorite– White, but all others are good, tasty, and fresh. I was involved with beer instrumentation years ago with Allagash– when they had a handful of people. Always courteous and professional, but fun folk. Quality, freshness and perfection is the norm. If you can’t make it to the brewery, buy the beer at the store. ;)

My wife and I recently visited Allagash. Our tour guide, Dylan, was great. The rest of the staff were also very friendly.
The tour is informative as well as fun — even for non-​beer geeks. The tastings were equally impressive as was the selection of beers for purchase in the shop/​tasting room. If you enjoy barrel aged beers (especially beyond bourbon barrel aging), Allagash has you covered.
Allagash is definitely worth a visit and I will certainly be back!

100’s of craft beers under my belt but never a beer tour. It’s all about price to % to taste for me. Well, until today and wow I learned ALOT. Tessa, our guide, was fantastic. Congenial, fun, knowledgeable, totally engaged employee, humble, and a good (no great) advocate of the product. The other employees there seemed to have a real pride in the product and there was a youthful spirit about the place. Creative and never content with the current product always willing to try new things. I have no doubt this young company will be around for many many more years.
The tour showed the entire process of the beer making process from ingredients to bottling. But it wasn’t boring at all and the tour had a good pace about it. I would think everyone from the beer drinking noob to the beer making geek would be satisfied by this tour.
The history of the company was a nice touch and was really communicated in such a way to want me to get behind the brand. My wife and I really had no intentions of buying anything from the shop but we ended up spending $ 100 in beer to take home and a few trinkets. There’s a beer, Curieux, that is aged 8 weeks inside Jim Beam barrels and let me tell you, I’ve had nothing like it. Had to buy some. Wow.
In sum, you must try this tour if you are near by and are a beer lover. I learned not only appreciate the $ to % to taste ratio. Now, I appreciate the beer for the process, the people, and the history behind the SIP! A whole new layer… thank you Allagash!

What a great place to taste! We were greeted with a house beer by a wonderful hostess. The house beer was an awesome light beer, perfect pairing for those household chores.
Next we took the brewery tour. Tim was the best! His tour was enjoyable. We tasted white, dubble, and black. All beers had a smooth non– bittery flavor. My favorite was the dubble. Did I mention Tim was an excellent tour guide.
For a special treat, try the neddle. Can we say smooth and sour!
Great job Allagash!

Free tasting flights, but they gave us extra tastings of other delicious beers too, gratis, friendly bartenders, bought lovely beer soap and got totes with purchase! As if I didn’t already love Allagash White, now I have a whole new list of beers to drink.

Fantastic experience. Book your tour online early (I would say at least a week in advance) to guarantee your spot; tours fill up quickly! It was very educational and informative. They started the tour off right with a nice sample of Allagash White (my personal favorite). If the tours are all full, do not fret, you can still taste a few brews! If you are in the area I definitely recommend visiting!

Had a great time here, Staff was awesome and knowledgeable, Devon was so nice and courteous highly recommend this place! He made the trip from Texas totally worth it!

I absolutely loved the tasting room at Allagash. Big olé bar with tours going onion the back ground. Nice tables… plenty of swag around to buy as well as their beer of course.
After being carded at 57 which I really find humorous, my buddy Dan and I sat down to enjoy 4 2oz samples of the beer. It came with a description of each.
The room definitely needs some munchies to help clear the palette in ones beer tasting pursuits!

We weren’t able to do the tour, but we were still able to sample their beer at the tasting room. The four large tasters were free, that’s right, free. It felt strange for us to just sit down and have someone pour us beer samples. The guy who helped us was very friendly and helpful. We told him that we plan on going to this restaurant with great Unilocal reviews for dinner. He informed us that, although that restaurant is good, it’s not worth the price and recommended another one to us that’s as good, but cheaper. Unfortunately, I can’t recall the name of the restaurant, but he was definitely right about the food. Best lobster roll we had on our Northeast trip.
Anyway, as I was writing before I went off topic, Allagash gave us free samples of some very delicious beer. They didn’t have a limit on how many we can have. And, they had those mind puzzlers there to entertain us. I definitely enjoyed all their samples and will look for their brand here in Los Angeles. I highly recommend Allagash, even if it’s just to sample their beer at the tasting room. Great beer and great service. Can’t beat that.

No room on the tour when we visited, but the tasting room suited us juuuust fine. 4 very large samples of delicious (and often brewery-​only) beer served with a smile for free (even the tips are donated), in a cozy taproom with a huge dog-​friendly patio? Yes, please! (Also, there are 3 more small breweries just around the corner, so you can make an afternoon of it.)
I love their barrel and sours program in particular, but they do everything well here IMO– Allagash White was one of my first ‘craft’ beers ever many years ago, and it still stands up as a solid brew. Love everything they’re doing here.

Free tastings. That’s all I can say! The sour selection is OUTRAGEOUSLY amazing and tasty and everything I ever thought it would be.

While spending my early part of the day across the street for can releases, I stopped by to see Allagash Brewing. Their beer is solid and I’ve been having it for a few years now. The actual brewery is amazing. It’s so big in size, can seat a lot of people, and has great outdoor seating. My only tiff with this place is the beers they had on tap are common beers you can buy at any beer store. I was hoping there was going to be something you could only drink at the brewery. Other than that, you have to visit Allagash when in the area.

Visited here in April 2015 while I was solo-​camping in the forest nearby Freeport, ME. I joined a brewery tour. During the tour, everything was new to me. Especially barrels of special beers in the warehouse impressed me a lot. I will never forget this experience.

Went here in May, right before the peak of summer and it was an absolutely glorious day. Reserved our tour for a Wednesday afternoon and got to the brewery a bit early — but there is plenty of parking so no need to worry on that front.
You can tell that the place is well established as soon as you walk in — the atmosphere is cozy and intimate, but not cramped. The taproom is bigger than most, with a bar/​sitting area for tastings, a shop, and a refrigerator full of their brews.
We opted to have the free tasting before the tour and wow they were so good. Loved allagash black and white (my go to beer now) and they also had a crazy raspberry beer that was delicious as well. The tour was awesome — the facility is HUGE and the guide really knows what she’s talking about. Everyone has a headset to listen in on, since it can get loud walking around the factory. The upstairs offices in particular seem really chill and cool.
This was the first brewery tour that I went on and wow did it set the bar high. Expectations blown away and then some. Just regret that I didn’t get some brews for the ride home, it’s harder to find their good beers in New York!
Would definitely come here again on a future visit!

I have been to a few breweries before and this one is my favorite. First of all it is free. You can go to the brewery and get free samplings of whatever beer they have on tap that day.
I went online a few days before and booked a tour. The tour is also free but you have to book ahead of time. I think the tour was really nice and our tour guide was very enthusiastic. My boyfriend loves Allagash beer so he learned a lot from the tour. You get to sample beer on the tour as well.
Overall, if you are going to be in Portland than stop by the brewery! They also sell beer here that you will not find in any other store!

I’ve been here 4 – 5 times and every time is awesome. When you get to the door, the host/​hostess will check your ID and then give you a wooden token which you trade in at the bar for 4 small glasses of beer. You usually get to try the white and black, and then two other seasonal/​small batch brews. They are usually all good.
You can drink either inside with climate control, or when the weather is good, outside on the benches or Adirondack chairs.
I usually buy some beer while I’m there cause it’s cheaper and they carry special drinks you can’t get at the grocery store.

Not a huge beer drinker but a flight of anything always makes it taste better! So many breweries In Portland but having recently tried Allagash white while in California, this was a logical choice.
This is not in downtown Portland and a car is required but is well worth the trip. The facility is sparking clean, the tour is informative yet not too long, and the complementary flight of 4 of their products was a nice finishing touch.

The first time I toured in 2012, Allagash was remodeling. Despite the construction, I’d say it was a pretty decent tour. I finally got the chance to go back in 2015, and I can happily say that this is definitely one of the best brewery tours I’ve been on!
While you do have to make a reservation online, it’s super quick and easy. Once that’s out of the way, you’re treated to a jolly tour complete with safety goggles & headphones for easy listening, multiple flights of stairs to keep your heart healthy, trips outdoors and back in again (and then out and in again) for that crisp, fresh Maine air, and more than a few generous tastings of what Allagash has to offer!
Brewery tours can definitely get tiring, and it’s tempting to say that once you’ve seen one, you’ve really seen them all. However, I’ve had awesome tour guides on each of my visits, and if you’re a true beer snob, you’d come for that hard to find stuff that you just can’t get anywhere else!

We arrived too late for the tour but the staff still sat with us to give us a bit of history and production insights while we were sipping our 4 x 3oz free samplers. The One T (the current employee creation) was an ambitious pineapple IPA mix that I enjoyed despite that I’m not at all a «bitter» person. It’s too bad it was a limited production tap-​only beer, otherwise we would have brought some back to Canada.
One of the highlights of our trip to Portland.

After booking our brewery tour 2 months ago, it was totally worth it! Would suggest making a reservation weeks in advance as it was one of the best brewery tours I’ve been on! Their barrel room was huge and it was great to see them at work! The tour guide was super knowledgable and answered every question we had. Our group of 5 told her our different kind of tastes, she immediately told the bar tender what we should try! At the end of it, we also had a flight of four different beers (you can even get this without the tour)! With varying flavors, it was just a great sample of the amazingness of Allagash!
Paired with outdoor seating and a corn hole set, this is the perfect day drinking place! Not too far off central Portland, it was worth the drive and would definitely visit again!!!