Lost Abbey Judgment Day

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
San Marcos, California USA

Courtesy of badlizard. Surprisingly light color. Low carbonation. Sweet malty. Hints of raisins. Full bodied. Mediocre. Thanks a lot badlizard!

courtesy of Allen - hazy bordeaux-brown colour with a little beige foam; aroma of wood, solvant and malt; deeply sweet and full-bodied but quite unbalanced (the finish is a bit empty); long sugary finish of malts, apple and dried prunes - far too sweet to be really good

Bottled (thanks stoutlover72!). Deep amberybrown colour, small head. Aroma is raisins, plum, some alcohol and mild notes of fruits. Flavour is fruits, alcohol, raisins, ashes and liquorice as well as some spicyness. Dry bittery grass, coffee and some yeast as well. Complex and quite good beer in it’s style.

Dark ruby-brown, viscuous, with the smallest of light brown heads that immediately disappears. Big raisin, port wine aroma with gumballs, toffee and alcohol. Flavor is much of the same- raisins, dates, caramel, and toffee malts lend a sticky sweet quality. Nutmeg and alcohol at the end. Carbonation level is nearly non-existant- feels flat if you hold it in your mouth too long. Hot, cardboardy finish. A strange take on a quad, and it’s not for me, evidently.

Bottled (few years old bottle). Dark brown color, small mostly vanishing beige head. Vintage nose: dark bread and raisins. Very bready, raisiny flavour. Alcohol is not dominating (for 10.5 % beer). Long sweetish aftertaste with some alcohol and hops. Balanced brew, quite good imitation of Belgian trappist - supposely Belgian yeast and hops used because this is very close to Rochefort and Chimay brews :)

New world intensity is a good way to describe the distinctly american qualities of this quad. The aroma is very strongly raisiny and malty. The taste is sweet and the raisins follow. A really lovely beer, offers something new to the belgian beer tradition by being so intense. Could be more complex but I loved it.

brought back bottle from san fran. this beer was tasty. a little too tasty

Pours dark reddish brown with almost no head and a fairly flat appearance. Wow they werent kidding about the raisins, first thing my nose picked up, follwed by some roast, lots of caramel, some toffee, dried plum, dark booze, some sweet bread spice and toasted wood notes. Flavor is full of raisin pudding, toasted grain, honey wheat bread, molasses, musty grass, overripe banana, date nut bread, some mossy/earthy notes, anise, burnt sugar, overripe cherry, hints of port, herbal hops, dusty attic and just a hint of pine and cedar. Finish is brandy, anise, cinamon roll, apple danish, peat and just a hint of bitterness. Palate is medium to thick with a syrupy entry and a somewhat astringent and dry finish, mine is fairly flat throughout, not sure if that is a packaging issue or not. It seems to fail to strike a happy medium where palate and flavor sync up to have a perfect temperature together. Too cool and it loses its complexity, but is more drinkable. Too warm and it blossoms with rich Quad flavors but becomes too hot and boozy. In any case, while I wish my bottle had more carbonation It was still rather enjoyable and I may buy another to save for a snowy day.