Lost Abbey Cable Car

On tap at toronado. Nice goldenerod color with a nice white head. Smells like brett, cheesy funk, apricots, and hay. Nice sour acidity, citrusy yet sweet fruits, and a stellar mouth. Clean, crisp, and refreshing.

2009, batch 3, 750ml bottle. Poured into Duvel tulip. A - Pours a mirky golden/light copper color. A nice, fluffy, white head quickly follows on a medium-aggressive pour. A nice, frothy, sticky lacing stays behind from the head. Once held into the light, I can see loads and loads of bubbles rise to the top of the glass from the etched "D" on the bottom of my glass. Overall, something to look at in awe and appreciate. S - Once I popped the cork, I could smell the tart/sour notes from a couple of feet away. Once I brought the glass to my nose, it wanted to turn inside out, just as I imagine my lips will want to do in a few minutes. Musty brett, stanky cheese, lemons, barnyard funk, sweet tropical fruit. All of this combines into an awesome-smelling wild...something to sit back and enjoy for a bit before you taste, lots going on here and probably more then I can pick up. T - Lip-puckering tart that hits you right off the bat and then mellows out into subtle lemon-esk tingle. This is so damn good, words can hardly describe it. Lots of funky barnyard/brett mixed with some semi-sweet fruity notes. Not too tart/sour which gives you a chance to delve in and enjoy some of the other flavors going on. A nice semi-sweet finish that I don’t think I can recall in any other sour I’ve had. A very complex wild. M - Light to medium bodied, but it sways more towards medium but not quite "medium" (sorry if I’m confusing here, hard to explain). Very full, but light at the same time. The carbonation is right-on here, a nice fizzy tickle on the tongue that helps open up the flavors. A dry finish that makes you come back for more. D - This beer makes you sit back and appreciate it. It’s easy to drink fast, but why? It’s great to chill out while sipping on this from time to time. I don’t want this bottle to end, but I’m glad I was able to pop this one open and enjoy. Lost Abbey, you have done it yet again!

Courtesy of tpd975. Pours hazy deep gold with bright white head. The aroma is big tartness up front and right up the nose followed by smooth grains, a mild bit of lemon, apples and a touch of oak. The taste, like the nose, starts with bold tartness building quickly to a full rolling boil of tart daggers. It then seems to even out a tad with faint fruity notes of apples and lemons. The tartness rides right into the finish.

The 09 on tap, pouring at the Night of the Funk event in Boston. Pours a slightly murky and hazy golden straw yellow. A bit nutty, with hay, straw, and brett. Medium bodied, and a bit more of that nutty almond flavor. Light solvent notes. Long slow finish with some light aicd. Buttery, bit of DMS.

Draft at Night of the Funk 2009: Cloudy golden pour with a fading head. lactic and citric aroma- has a lemony acidity with a mild floral component, and mild white oak tannins as well. Fairly slick mouthfeel with apparent acidity. Flavor is lactic and a touch solventy, and mild buttery grains as well. Citric and dry yet there’s that mild solvent presence. perhaps it’s because i tried this just after Yellow Bus, but this is slightly overrated. Still a solid American style sour ale.

Draft at Night of the Funk. Pours a solid cloudy yellow with a tall white head. Aromas of citrus, witbier-like spice, and a ton of barnyardy funk. The flavor is heavy on the lemon with cumin, more funk, and some white wine-like notes. There is substantial sourness here that cuts through the funk and reminds me of Cantillon’s lambics. A very fine effort.

Sample @ BBF Night of the Funk. Pours a cloudy deep yellow with a fluffy white head. Aroma is citrus, a bit of spice, and a whole lot of that wonderful funk. Flavor is spicy citrus up front (coriander, perhaps a few other spices) with a wonderful explosion of funk at the end. Beer remains sublimely smooth and supremely drinkable, a characteristic that belies the heavy, heavy funk. It wasn’t the Yellow Bus, but man did I love this beer.

Sample at NotF 2009. Pours a cloudy dark yellow color with a small frothy head. Nose is light funky esters with some lemony notes and a bit of spice. Palate is crisp. FLavors of light lemon and spice with some funky, musty notes.