 CharlesDarwin (1501), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
scrizzz (573), kirkland, Washington, USA
Jan 6, 2009 Pale yellow, lots of active bubbles, and a thick sticky bright white head. Aroma is soft, some straw, can’t get the granny smith apple until i swirl in the dregs. That really is bone dry. Leathery with faint citrus notes. Alcohol is only noticed much later in my chest, surprising for a beer this delicate. Slightly sour dry wheat finish.
jstraw (549), Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Jan 3, 2009 Bomber at Jerry’s. Pale gold with big, foamy white head / Light, delicate nose of banana and lemon / Light body, hop dry, alcohol well-masked, with good, bitter finish / Flavors of grain, lemon, banana, and dry hops / A summer beer, sort of a cross between a pilsner and a wheat beer.
sundevil27 (26), , New Jersey, USA
Jan 2, 2009 750ml bottle. Light color with somewhat of a haze. Some citrus/fruit, and maybe a pear thrown in there. This is my first from the Lost Abbey, and really like this one.
Sammy (3287), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dec 27, 2008 Light yellow body and lots of lasting white head, with lots of lace left in the glass. A funkly yeast that gives it a funky aroma. Medium mouthfeel, metallic taste. Kind of so-so for the brewer.
satan165 (207), River Grove, Illinois, USA
Dec 25, 2008 candy sugar nose, hop sweetness palate. straw yellow color, thin head. yeast saves this from being quite boring. this loses points for being a non descript belgian, then gains them back and then some considering its not made in belgium at all. still a bit dull.
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