Lost Abbey Isabelle Proximus

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

WOW!!!! Bottle generously donated by Kelly! Absolutly one of the best brett beers I’ve ever tasted. Very well balanced. A lemon zesty sour ale with a hint of barnyard. LOVED IT!!!!!

rating 1900 and sourhead rating 100. I’ve had this beer several times and it keeps getting better and better. A murky gold color with faint white head. Lemon citrus, funky horse blanket brett, and immense sourness on the aroma. Oak manages to cut through the body of this intensly sour beer. A little saison like funk in there as well. I could drink this every day. Thankfully, it’s on tap at GABF ’08 so I should get my fill for three days straight!

Sampled on 12/31/08. This sour ale pours a slightly hazy yellow gold color from a cork finished 750ml bottle. Small sized white foamy head, with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is tart, fruity and funky. Lots of stuff going on in the aroma; a nice mixture of must, horse blanket, oak, and fruitiness. A medium bodied sour ale. The malts are fruity and sweet, but the tartness and funkiness rule in this beer. Nicely balanced. Lively carbonation. It a big tart/sour/funky beer yet there are other subtle tastes here as well. There are earthy notes, citrusy notes, funky notes, oakey notes and then there is that sour/tart geuze blast, all these flavor mix and match and change every sip. Yet it has a very nice soft round mouthfeel. A great beer to usher out 2008 and celebrate 2009. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is tart and funky.

Thanks for sharing Andrew! The beer pours to a yellow hazy/murky body with a thin white head. The aroma is sick! Sour complex leathery pineapple and starfruit. Tartness everywhere. The flavor is tart and leathery sour fruits like pineapple and starfruit. Kind of like a gueuze but not blended. The palate is tart, medium bodied, refreshing, and not overly sour. Nice acid component throughout. Near perfect! Keep it up Tomme, Vinnie, Lorenzo, Rob, Adam, and Sam! Wowzers!

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 knew this would be making its way to Philly and I am more than just excited to try this bad boy. This one is a bottle from Monk’s – Really nice golden color with a moderately sized white head. Aroma is big and sour with a gentle woodiness that blankets a lemon/orange/citrus sourness. Also getting some light raspberries and pre-ripe/tart blueberries. Inviting, but not overwhelming. Flavor is pure heaven – citrusy sourness melting into gentle lambic with woody undertones, a hearty and tasty tartness, and smooth sweetness that is so well blended – its just about perfect. Mouthfeel its incredible – the perfect balance of sticky and smooth – almost indescribable. This is a fantastic beer that is a great example of how awesome American beer can be. Tomme and the gang really outdid themselves with this one!

Bottle at the launch party, Lost Abbey, San Marcos
Very cloudy beige colour. Shimmers in the glass. Very fresh aroma of foot, lemon, woody and a slight bit of cheesiness. Great sour character, but blended with a sweet finish. Brilliant balance. Foot, funk and lemon, but yet very clean. Near limitless complexity. You would never know this was American - this is serious lambic of the highest order. A masterpiece.

Poured from a bottle at the Brickskeller Lupilin Reunulin (double sample as I could not get enough). Hazy gold, creamy white head with perfect lacing from top to bottom. Deep complex aromas open to notes of lemony musty funk and yeast. Warming brings on soft undercurrents of creamy herbal peach, toasted oak, and hints of stinky cheese. Flavor piles on the bretty funk and yeast that beautifully balances on dense sour lemony citric and lactic vanilla wood-like tones. Just an incredible mending of flavors. Full bodied and smooth, tingly carbonation, sour funked finish. This was absolutely the highlight of the evening. Simply spectacular…