Lost Abbey Amazing Grace

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Abbey Dubbel
San Marcos, California USA

Bottle at the RBSG grand tasting thanks to JohnC. Hazy brown with a small head. Very funky bretty aroma with citrus, wine, and some oak. Nice start to the flavor with some caramel and dried fruit, leading to a dry and tart finish with a touch of wood. Light bodied with medium carbonation. Lost and Found is already a very nice beer, and the barrel aging had added a really cool complexity and style to it.

Liquid Sunshine VII Tasting – Kirkland, WA
Aroma: Big Belgian yeast and malt aroma.
Appearance: Dark amber in color, clear with a thin head.
Flavor: Big Belgian flavor good malts with fruit flavor. Very dark dried fruit flavors where awesome.
Palate: Great Belgian Finish, with a Nice Mouthfeel.
Overall: This was a wonderful Abbey Dubbel.

Nice darker brown with a pleasantly sour aroma of dark fruits, Cabernet and other Bordeaux varietals, wood, and sweetness. Flavor is nice and sour with some red wine barrel, oak, wet fields, and funkiness. Quite nice - I liked Lost and Found but this really takes it to another level.

750, corked and baled. Thanks, SuzyGreenberg! Opaque medium brown with medium dense creamy tan head. Watery medium body. Tangy tart fruity sourness happening. Risins, figs, and caramel. A little bit of lemon on top of that. Interesting, kind of offbeat, doesn’t seem coherent. Not sure if it’s supposed to taste this way.

Bottle. Funky fruity aroma. Clean fruit taste with lots of funk. Excellent.

Bottle courtesy of KingG poured into a tulip. The cork popped with some serious power and the foam started to creep out of the bottle as I poured it. The body is a deep, clear copper with a huge creamy tan head that settles in as a big cap leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is much more tart and funky than I was expecting. The underlying dubbel aromas are there, especially some dark fruits and caramel, but the funk is really in the forefront in the nose as well as tart cherries and some dry woody scents as well. I think the taste is slightly better than the aroma as it seems to really bring in the dubbel character with more caramel sweetness and candi sugar than the aroma. The initial blast is of tart fruits, maybe cherries, as well as a hint of funk. The dubbel starts to show through in the middle before a dry, woody finish to close things out. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with lots of carbonation and definitely much more tart and dry than your garden-variety dubbel. This is an extremely unique and tasty dubbel . It’s certainly nothing close to what I was expecting with the serious tart fruit presence and emerging funk. Thanks to Joey for sharing this beauty.

Bottle at RnH Drink for Charity. Thanks to everyone who brought great beer to this. Reddish amber with ring. Funky fruity cherry aroma. Woody cherry sugary. Nice carbo and mouthfeel. Very good.

Bottle at the “Drink for Charity” event at Rattle & Hum. Pours a clear ruby. Mostly still with just a touch of a beige head. Nice bretty funk, cork, wood. Medium bodied with a nice full carbonation and crisp. Light sourness. Dry and crisp with a good deep plum note and a little bit of alcohol.