Lost Abbey Amazing Grace

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

Bottled - tasted blind. An unclear amber-brown beer with a lazing orange head. The aroma is sweet combined with some acidity and notes of fruit and black currant. The aroma is sweet with an underlying acidity and notes of woood, berries, and brettanomyces.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of fordest. Slightly hazy amber golden with a creamy, cappuchinoish beige head. Tart, Brettish nose - very vinous. Medium body with vinous sweet’n’sour caramel and lots of dried fruit. Discreet bitterness. What a wonderful complexity. Knowing that this was labelled as an Abeey Dubbel I thought it was infected! But it’s not, it’s just wondefully barrel-aged, and it’s really more resembling a Flemish Sour. Someone please remove that Abbey Dubbel tag - it’s terribly misleading. 190408

Blind tasting at Papsoes place, another great session, thanks Henrik! Beer #17: Pours hazy brown with a lacing slight off-white head. Light fruity acidic aroma. Flavour is light orange peel and citric/acidic. Light sweet caramel malt beneath. Light sweet caramel flavour and light acidic into the finish. Nice.

Bottled, thanks cquiroga! Cloudy dark amber with very lively but brief head. Floral vinous and oaky nose with some higher alcohols. Fresh and lively with notes of cherry. dark chocolate and peppery alcohol. Feesl surprisingly light for it’s size, due to it’s liveliness. Complex but non-assaulting. Excellent!

Bottled. Hazy amber colour with small off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, grapes, some woodenness as well as quite red wineish. Flavour is lots of sour wood, caramel, some sugary notes as well as alcohol and mild madeiraish notes. As a whole, a really warming and wellbalanced brew.

Bottle. Hazy orange red coloured with a medium sized beige head. Light acidic aroma of red wine, wood and vanilla. Light acidic flavour with some sweetness and notes of red wine, wood, vanilla, brett, glue and fruits. Dry finish of wood.

Date: 12/01/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Strong Ale Fest

muddy brown, wispy beige head, huge sweet ripe fig aroma with notes of chocolate, lots of the barrel flavor with a muted, only a hint of the ripe fruit in the aroma, flavor does not follow through,
-------- /> Date: 12/26/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: brewery
Score: 3.1 to 3.5

muddy dark red, wispy beige head, drippy lace, lots of funk starting to come through in the chocolate aroma with a fruity winey sweetness, rich chocolate flavor, lots of sweet wine character, oaky barrel comes through with a touch of funk, the oak grows to balance the sweetness from the wine and dry out the chocolate, the bretty funk grows as it warms, starts sweet and fruity and turns dry and oaky and the night progresses
-------- /> Date: 01/12/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

still mostly wine with only a hint of the funk,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Muddy red-brown colour. Dar fruit and light alcohol. Fairly vinous woody character. Deep and complex. Fruity with rich raisiny depth and a dry alcohol finish. Complex and delicious.