Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

750ml bottle(Patrons & Saints Club)-Pours a dark brown with a ruby tint with a small ring for ahead. Aroma of roasted malt, raisins, and some chocolate. Taste of chocolate, fruits, and sweetness. This full bodied brew finishes with a nice smooth finish. This is a great balanced beer. 1000 rating

750 ml bottle split between four snifters poured deep mahogany with s very small tan head. Raisins is the major aroma, but there were also some plums and some molasses. Deep chocolate flavor and some darker fruits like cherries in there. Very nice, but was a bit thick and sticky for my liking.

C&C 750 mL bottle from stefanje’s summer secret santa shipment. Thanks! Pours a nearly opaque chocolate brown color with a medium off-white head. Raisin is huge in this beer. The aroma is chocolate, raisin, oats and subtly spicy hops. Taste is chocolate, alcohol, raisins and other dark fruits. Full bodied.

Pours dark brown with a thin ring for a head. Mostly chocolate aroma, a nice balance of acidity, raisins, and a hint of berries. The flavor is very malty upfront with some caramel. It follows with some smokiness, acidic fruit (cherries), with a brown sugar syrupy finish. The Palate is sharp but enjoyable. Balanced and interesting.

bottle. maple pour with thin lasting head. big aroma of fig, raison,sugar, rich malts, alcohol. rich and sugary. wood, dark fruits, vanilla, rich papery malts. interesting palate as it switches from smooth to almost abrasive from sip to sip. Perhaps this will get better as it ages but right now a bit too intense up front

Courtesy of gillard. Pours deep copper with brownish head. Aroma chocolat, dar fruits, sugary and malty. Taste, also noted some light chocolat malts, with some sweet vanilla. Very sweet, loaded with alcohol. Dark fruits, (raisin/cherry) sugary. First sip has this strong dark fruits/chocolaty taste before being coated by the alcohol. A damn fine brew.

Bottle courtesy of Gillard. Pours a hazy brown amber with a one finger off-white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma is loaded with raisins, caramel, sweet malt, and spicy yeast. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium full mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and smooth alcohol. Very good.

Corked and caged from Capone’s a while back, opened to celebrate the Phils clinching another division title (hmmm ... the skies do seem to have turned red). Vinous, raisin-soaked, Port-inflected nose is heavy on the malt with dark figs, prunes. A bit too boozy. Dark ruby brown pour with a rocky tan / light brown head. Hot and boozy overtones overwhelm the raisins and most other facets of beer, eventually moving on to dominate the finish. Dry and lightly woody with some nice dark chocolate through into the aftertaste. Sticky and has some firm bitterness. Very faint prickling from the hops on a medium body. Very good, and moderately interesting, but not great and not worth $10 to age a second bottle. Admittedly suffers from disappointment - I had hoped for much more.