Lost Abbey 10 Commandments

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Pour is like a belgian Dark Strong, beautiful and deep brown with tan lace. Aroma is definitely Belgian with bretta sour notes. A full palate sparkles darkly on the tongue. The flavor... malt, current, tart, caramel, leather, earth. WOW! This beer is amazing. My first ever 5.0.

This brew is amazing! Pours like malted leather juice w/ it’s hazed, dark amber brown colors. Froth is medium sized w/ spattering and recedes slowly. Residual lacing consists of a full fluffy ring. Aromas of sweet malted dark fruits and cocoa. Full nectar w/ soft and fluffy creamy residual effers. It’s like the effers overcome the liquid and turn to fluffy cream. Nice! Big spicey malts w/ a dash of bakers cocoa. Mildy sweet w/ nuaces of pine, bitters, roasted coffee bean, black cherry, raisons, leather, steak. This brew has a mild roast component and delivers a peachpit style bittering that sets in mid palate and sticks. The finish is long on flavor w/ a mild sweetness and bittered perfectly. During the session I was reminded of a texture that took me a while to place. A texture so amazing and that isn’t readily produced in but only one other brew that I have had. That brew is the Westy 12. It took me two thirds of the bottle to finally remember where I had last felt that. The best thing about the W12 is it’s texture, full on cream. Perfect! 10 Commandents has that texture. Good job guys. Connoisseurs choice! Highly recommended.

Great beer. Pours out dark ale with lots of head. Strong smell of raisins and malt. Very complex taste. Smooth finish with alittle fire.

Wow, haven’t rated this beauty. Pour is a very dark brown with a perfectly forming head of a very light tan. The head is airy, frothy, well developed and very pure and authentic...very Belgian. Perfect appearance because it looks Belgian. Nose is very expressive and lively and mainly shows the spicing (ginger, pumpkin, allspice), but it also hints of raisins, dark fruits, wildness and Belgian yeast. Flavor is very well balanced with all the elements working well together. Spicing is still the dominant factor, but the flavor still gives hints of raisins, dark fruits, herbs and yeast. Like it quite a bit, but it has aged slow. RERATE!!!!!!!&# 2008 Batch. Incredible improvement on an already great beer. This new batch is really, really terrific.

Courtesy of badlizard. 750ml bottle. Appearance: It pours a murky brown beer with no head. Aroma: Burnt caramel, jarred pickles, oak, honey, vanilla, licorie, pumpkin, balsamic vinegar and nutmeg showing up. Extremely interesting, pleasant, complex and inviting. Flavor and palate: Nicely balanced. Surprisingly sour. Some sweetness. The rosemary really adds a lot to this beer. Low carbonation. Full bodied and unbelievably smooth. A lot of candy, molasses and burnt caramel appearing. Hints of ginger, vanilla, oak, lavender, cough syrup, nutmeg and rose appearing. The finish is rather dry and reminiscent of Christmas cake, dried apricot and sage. Overall impression: A true nectar. My kind of beer. Thanks a lot badlizard!

Ok.........I’m in love with another beer from Lost Abbey. Pours a completely NON translucent dark brown with a faint ruby hue. head was small, wispy, and beige in color. Nose was bursting with flavors of cinnamon, raisins and other dark fruits. Flavor was potent with cocoa dust, dark fruits, and.....once again.....cinnamon. I’m so glad I live in San Diego, a beer dorks heaven on Earth. Thank You Tomme (brewer).

Bottle split with Pat. The bottle reads 10% abv. Pours a dark murky brown with a small brown head. Aroma is sweet fruit, raisins, and malt. The flavor starts as a belgian ale, and ends with a roasty flavor accompanied by notes of raisins, clove, and vanilla. An amazing brew.

Bottle from Capone’s. Deep brown pour with 2-finger khaki head and great lasting lacing. The aroma is incredible; very much like Westy 12 and Rocheforte 10, with caramel malt, brown sugar, funky yeast, spices including cinnamon and nutmeg, raisins, and floral notes. Very complex aroma. The taste had notes of roasty dark malt, figs, raisins, dark chocolate, brown sugar, funky yeast, and spices. The palate is complex, very well balanced, pretty hefty, and very lively, with the carbonation being on the high side, and it all worked very well, making this a world class brew that every beer lover should seek out.