Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

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.

Even if the label didnt read "raisins" my nose would have known, along wiht brandy, sour cherry, alcohol. head lasted maybe 10 seconds, dark, coupe layers of malt here-- raisins, cherries stuffed with brown suga. meant to age, so not as complex as could get. sweet, carmelized finish.

A great brew. poured out a hazy dark brown color with a nice head. aroma had notes of sugar, yeast, dark fruit, and spice. flavor was very pleasing with raisins malt and sugar to it. a fantastic brew.

I love it, I freakin love it. Smell is raisins, plantains, gin, brown sugar and alcohol. Deep muddy brown with quickly disapating beige frothy rocky head. Taste like a mix of styles, but to describe it fairly, I will reference Dogfish Head and say that it is right in between the Raisin D’etre and Raisin D’extra. Awesome flavor that meddles with all the aroma components plus yeast, but not in the typical quad way because in this beer the yeast comes off as being somehow roasty or burnt. Tremendous balance with the carbonation. Super beer, thank you Port Brewing. 08 or 09 22oz.

750 ml bottle. Pours a hazy brownish amber color with a small beige head that disappears quickly. The aroma is an interesting mix of caramel, dark fruits, spices, raisins, alcohol, and a touch of banana. The flavor has much of the same goodness centered around the caraeml malts and dark fruits. Raisins, spices, and brown sugar with alcohol round out the flavor profile. For a bigger beer this was pretty easy to drink, although a bit warming. The finish was dry but full. This was not the best quad, but very enjoyable.