Lost Abbey Isabelle Proximus

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

#600. Bottle from WTF OMG tasting, courtesy tpd975. Pours a bright golden yellow color topped by a small, foamy white head that settles quickly to small bubbles leaving some spots of lacing. The aroma is awesome and shows notes of sour lemon, grapefruit, peaches, and oranges. There is a good amount of oak and vanilla that seem to mellow the citric acidity and funky brett. The flavor follows with more of the sour citrus of lemons and grapefruit up front before the oak, vanilla, and some lactic creaminess smooth things out on the backend. There is a good amount of funk from the yeast too which adds another dimension to the beer. Incredibly complex yet has great balance and is ver yeasy to drink. Full bodied, smooth with good carbonation that leads a lengthy, citrus acidic finish. This is an amazing, world class beer. I really want to get a bottle of my own. Thanks Greg for bringing this and sharing with everyone.

Hazy dark golden with a thin sheen. Nice aromas of barnyard grass cheese and dry wood. Medium body. Tongue tingling acidity up front with dry hay, grass, barnyard piss flavors. Nice dry finish with a medium aspirin burn. Great sour.

dark yellow orange with a good head. . smells amazing, sweaty and tart, my taste buds stand at attention just from the smell. taste is too sour to aptly describe well. vinegar that tastes good. jaw clenching earthy sweat and sour apple in one lots of little flavors eke out as this warms. , banana, leather, oak, sour cherry, but the acidity dominates. 3 8 8 5 18

Bottled, thanks mreusch! Cloudy orange, brief head. Sweaty citric brett aroma. Tart and citric despite underlying malt sweetness. Juicy and quite full bodied. Concentrated citric horsenlanket flavour, like lambic beefed up and condensed. Has an amazing flavour, but lacks the complexity of the real lambics completely. A beer with a huge initial WOW-factor, but upon a closer inspection the surface starts cracking up.

Bottle @ WTF OMG! HOLY! Poured a hazy deep yellow. Nose was brett, funk, unripe fruit, grapefruit, big earthiness, floral hop presence, lemon peel, horseblanket. Flavor was rich and complex, super sour, big funk, fruity, tart, dry, wood earthy. AMAZING!

Unclear yellow of color with a white head. An aroma of horse back and sour. A flavor of citrus and nice sour.

Had a bottle of this at Brouwer’s in Seattle during (oddly enough) their barley wine festival last spring (quite a palate cleanser!). Colour... lovely hazy straw with a wispy off white head. Nose... is it just me or have I been mucking out the barn whilst sucking green persimmons and snorting lemon rinds infused with spice and brett?! And I sincerely mean that in the best of ways!! Palate... lots of brett shining through with this puppy (a wet puppy, that is!). Lemon, earth, wet hay, barnyard, gentle carbonation, tart pippins, grape skin and pips and an ever so tangy, lengthy finish!

Bottle thanks to MaltOMeal!
Acquired as my first by-mail trade, cracked in celebration of my one year anniversary of trading on RB and #500. Moderate white head that reduces to a thin film atop hazy golden straw color, joyously bubbling away without end. Gueze nose that’s balanced right on the edge, showing both tart and sweet elements in brett-dominated leather, lemon, green apple, feet, and minor barn. Flavor not as biting as Cantillon though the brett still comes through with some wheat, dust, and more fruit: lemon, granny smith, and general apple skin. The fruit dominates sweetly in the finish. Full body, carbonation rightly a little lighter to ease the palate off the flavor. Not as mind-blowing as the best gueze because it plays it a little safer, but it is still an excellent gueze and an exercise in balance.