Little Sal

Few things are more synonymous with Maine than blueberries. After years of making wild beers without ever using Maine’s state fruit, a tiny farm in Windham, Maine, asked us to try a beer with their blueberries. The beer tasted so good that we asked to use their entire crop.

To make Little Sal, we add wild, lowbush blueberries to sour red barrel-aged ale. The resulting beer is dark violet in color, with earthy aromas of blueberry and oak. Its flavor is juicy, tart, and unmistakably blueberry: a true taste of Maine.

Beer Details

Grains: Carapils, Raw Wheat, Allagash 2-row Malted Barley Blend, Chat. Munich, Chat. Abbey, Special B

Hops: Hallertau

Spices/Other: Local Blueberries

Total Fermentation and Conditioning Time: Two years

Serving Temp: 40-50°F

Ideal Within: Four years

First Released: 2013

Availability: Limited

Package Size: 375 ml

ABV: 6.0%

Available in:

375 ml

DRAFT

Celebrating Sustainability at Allagash

Earth Month is officially here. To kick off Spring Greening—our brewery’s springtime spotlight on sustainability—we invited just under twenty like-minded organizations to the brewery.

Our Local Fruit Farmers

The quality of our beer is beholden to the ingredients we make it from. Which is why we buy our ingredients locally whenever we can. And one ingredient that we love to buy local is fruit. It’s the best way to ensure sure that the strawberries, blueberries, peaches (or whatever else we decide to dump in our tanks) fill our beers with unmistakably fresh flavor.

What is: Wild Beer

What we call wild beer, many other people call “sour” beer. This is purely a preference, and not any hard and fast rule. But we wanted to explain why we feel like “wild” works a bit harder than “sour,” and what wild beers are to us.