Lost Abbey Isabelle Proximus

Formerly brewed at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Bottle at RBSG at the brewery. Pours a cloudy yellow orange with a thin white head. Lemon and "barnyard funk" aroma. This is very gueze-esque. Medium bodied with a good amount of dryness on the palate. Flavors of yeast, pepper, white grapes, and lemon pulled together by a medium sourness. Nicely done from a slightly inexperienced palate as far as Belgian styles go.

thanks cmubeerman. Bright orange color, hazy, with a thin white head. Sweet tarts, funky, yeasty - amazingly balanced. Excellent dusty finish and lingering yuzu/myer lemon notes. Apple like sweetness, reminiscent of orangina. Quite dry. The balance is really remarkable. Definitely the best sour, and one of the best beers, I’ve ever had.

I had no idea what to expect ... Lost Abbey does great interpretations of Belgian dubbels, tripels, and quads. But this was an amazing American lambic. It’s hard for me to get too enthusiastic about the smell of a lambic, serious barnyard or diaper funk. Everything else is a close to perfect as a beer can be. Wonderful waves of complexity, yeast, funk, lemon, sweet finish. Wonderful appearance, cloudy orange, wonderful palate. Just a great beer.

Bottle from Lost Abbey Sinners online! Nose is tart with horseblanket, oak, lemon, and yeast; Murky yellow-gold with a big, glass-lacing but quick disappearing, off-white head; flavor is moderate funky tartness with some lemon and a light berry note to complement the oakiness; finish is of course tart!

Ratebeer rating #4,500!!! 750ml bottle acquired in trade. A wee bit of a gusher but not too much wasted! Poured a medium and cloudy golden color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of wood (oak), citrus (lemon peels), funky, musty/dusty, and some leather. Tastes of oak, lemons/citrus, musty, funky, and fruity. The more I smelled this one the more and different aromas I got. Medium sourness that lingered on my lips. I’m going to enjoy every drop of this one!

thanks andrew. peach orange color with 75% semitranslucency. smells like any other lambic gueze ever. my nose isn’t able to tell between these things. pretty dry, but pretty balanced. immediately mouth puckering. fantastic balance. pretty dry.

Sampled from bottle courtesy TheCheeseMan and sampled at Lost Abbey tasting @ RBSG. Dark straw color, thin ring of white head. Dusty, sweet barnyard aroma, a lot of acetic notes. Heavy sour citric taste, less vinegar acetic-ness on the taste than the aroma gives. This lets other subtle notes come out, some fresh cut grapefruit, grapeskins, oak. Very nice.

bottle, cloudy yellow color with no head, sweet wine and ureaic? nose, flavors of sour lemon, wildflowers and chalk, finish is salty bitter, great beer