Lost Abbey Amazing Grace

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

On tap at brewery. Cloudy brown with no head. Amazingly complex aroma and taste of brown sugar, whiskey character, grapes, and vanilla with notes of dark fruit and red wine. Excellent!!!!

Thanks to hopdog for opening up this one. Pours a hazy brown with a large foamy off white head. Watch this one gushes. Aroma was floral, oaky, vinous, tart cherries, pie crust and just an amazing nose that is hard to put it all into words. Flavor of tart cherries, light red wine, floral, dark fruits and light citrus notes. Oaky and so smooth!

750ml corked and caged bottle. ***Slow gusher alert. This one didn’t spew, it just slowly kept coming out of the bottle*** Poured a medium and cloudy/muddy brown color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of earthiness, wood, oak, red wine, dark fruits, and grapes. Some funkiness. Tasts of lighter wood, vanilla, dark fruits, and vinous. Smooth and soft body. Nice light sour and tart finish. Damn this one was good and really hit the spot. I wish I had more, I could drink this one every day.

Poured a murky brown red color with a small, off white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of brett, vinous, dried fruits, wild yeast, raisins, citrus fruits, and vanilla oak. Taste of more raisins, citrus, vanilla oak, buttery toffee, sweet cabernet, more dark fruits, and a light tartness with a velvety mouthfeel. Thanks to Steve for sharing this at the end of our tasting the other night!

re-rate 8 Sep 2007 on tap at lost abbey hazy brown, very nice complex nose of dreid fruit (prune, raisin), medium body -------&# tap at the Pizza Port Strong Ale fest. Brown with a small head, not much going on in the way of flavor or aroma.

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!

At May Ratebeer London Gathering at Chris O’s. Hazy mid brown. Thick, malty alcoholic aroma, rough and uncompromising. Taste is sour, earthy, leathery and musty. Bitterness to follow. Tough, crude, and reallly rather wonderful.

Nose: Spicy, extremely tart cherry sourness. Candyish with medicinal qualities and growing in sourness and growing in the medicinal cherry direction as well. Oh, and a tid bit boozie if I do say so my damn self.
Appearance: Purple-stained brown. Whispy head.
Flavor: Subtly browned cherries and malt, thick, chewy and not overly effervescent. There’s actually some plasticy old fantome-esche characteristics, back say.. an 02 - 04 Fantome noel type thing...with added funky barrel interweavings. crazy time.