 pantani (1900), Salinas, California, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 7, 2008 Slightly foggy gold with a thin white head. Aroma is yeasty with light citrus, cinnamon, light alcohol. Taste is yeast, cinnamon, alcohol, malt. Ok but not a lot of depth or sweetness.
paytoplay (123), , California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 7, 2008 Much like other posts this was an above average beer but didn’t wow me. Should be some further development as bottle fermintation takes place over the next couple years. Minerals, some roasted banana leaf, mild oil citrus. Weird to have a "mineral" taste as they make their own reverse osmosis water, and don’t run that water over any type of stone or rock to allow the water to pick up minerals and flavor. Though this beer still expresses minerals? I do enjoy that flavor in this beer. Would buy again but only a couple for the next couple years. $9 locall I believe, so not terrible expensive.
hellomynameis (794), Mayer, Minnesota, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 7, 2008 Light citrusy yellow-orange colour with a thin fine foam head that’s just slightly off white. I’m a bit plugged up today and can’t smell too well. However, it’s got a bit of hops in the aroma. Really nice palate, a bit thick and chewy reminding me of an english bitter. The flavour is really nice, similar to a Duvel, hop notes with some slight spice and dry belgian yeast flavours.
CharlesDarwin (1844), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 750mL Bottle. Thanks Andy! Fruity pale malt aroma, light grapefruit and heavy belgian yeast on bread sugars. Heavy on the minerals. Pours a clear pale gold, with a nice froth of silky, silky soap white. Flavor produces an ester heavy sugar base, with nice tart acerbic belgian yeast phenols and a wallop of drying hops and alcohol. Rather clean, but again touched by that very signature Lost Abbey mineral profile that always throws these paler belgians slightly askew. Balanced, well-flavored and certainly quaffable. But at this gravity I yearn for a little more complexity and sense a faint bit of oxidation. Not bad, but nothing to get really whipped up about.
pineypower (1095), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 Thanks to Flacoalto for this one. Pours out a cloudy straw color with a moderate fluffy white head. Aroma is of banana, clove, spice and some yeast. Taste is complex, sweet fruits, banana, yeast, clove and some slight bitterness in the finish. Alcohol is well hidden
Stine (1380), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 5, 2008 Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Softly sweet aroma buried in yeast. Pears, banana, cookie dough, cotton candy, tarragon, clove; full of a romantic, herbal, damp, floral quality. Winsome and warm.
Clean, leafy and slightly medicinal flavor. Yeast seems especially stony, gravelly and dusty on the fairly simple golden malts, and this lends a lovely stock-ale kind of musty, ancient impression, like the beer was dug up from the cellar of an abandoned French farmhouse. Flavors of soft lavender, autumn leaves, grasses, lemongrass and wildflower honey, all burdened so slightly with alcohol, though the impact of the weight certainly seems intentional.
Medium body is somewhat syrupy with lagging carbonation. Finishes bitterly with drawn out yeasts, dried golden fruits, and alcohol. Mission accomplished. Thanks Zac!
dalekliz (546), San Diego, California, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 4, 2008 Bottle. Thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing. Pours a very cloudy yellow-amber with a thick, fluffy white head. Sweet aroma of yeast, hops, cloves, banana. Smooth taste, lots of spices, yeast and a bit of a hoppy bite. Light lingering spicy bitterness. Very tasty.
chrisafari (100), Orange, California, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 4, 2008 Pours clear blonde (was expecting it to be darker) Sweet aroma of belgian yeast. Flavor of orange and pepper. Leaves a nice crisp tartness on the tongue and throat. For a belgian strong ale that is 8.5%, I was expecting it to much more intense. It is really easy to drink. This beer is trouble!!
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