Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

750mL bottle, 1st bottled release (also thanks to Kan for sharing recently!). Poured crystal-clear, shimmery coppery-brown with a lovely cap of beige head (unfortunately didn’t stick around for long). The aroma picked up a solid blend of dark sugars (vinous notes, plums, and prunes) upfront with rich caramel, chocolate, and peppery yeast not far behind.. sherry stuck on the back with a bit of less-refined alcohol, but this really grew on me as the drink progressed. The flavor had a lighter, freeer-flowing caramel and sherry character to it the whole way through.. dried spices and peppery alcohol grace the edges.. finished very dry and spicy with vinous notes and toffee. Medium-bodied with low carbonation and a slick feel across the palate.. wish it gripped a bit tighter.. finished a bit stronger, but never entirely came together. All in all a tasty brew!

Dark pour with very small brown head. Nose of dried fruit. Flavor is rather sweet, cross between a barley wine flavor and quad. A lot of raisins, prunes and plum. Body looks big, but more on the lighter side. Hops are present, just enough to keep the sweetness in check.

Not quite what I was expecting from having other quads. Dark, rich brown, almost the color of a stout or porter. The raisins really come through in the nose. The flavor is belgian up front, followed by some bitter twang, then ending with a dark fruity flavor, reminiscent of some Nogne brews I’ve had. Surprisingly light bodied for its full flavor, it is full of effervescence. Still, maybe its summer, but its a bit to rich for my blood.

Poured real dark with a small khaki head that laced around the glass nicely.Lots of sweet dark fruits on the nose. The flavor was warming with the dark fruit sweetness and caramel.This brew was complex but blended well letting me enjoy the flavors with out one being dominant. Finished of warming and sweet.

Pours an almost black brown with tan head. Aroma is dominated by dark fruit- fruity malt, apple, raisin, plum, apricot, peach, and grape all evident. Flavor follows suit from odor with dark fruit again clearly present. Palate is thick and rich with some definite creamyness- sweet finish. Really tasty beer.

Sweet malt, fruity raisin notes, nicley aromatic. Eye catching dark brown to deep purple color, no "smoke on the water" here. Semi-sweet sugary flavor. Somewhat creamy mouthfeel, A little rich. Fruity and a little zesty in the end, warming fruity of dates and raisins. Aftertaste is very appealing a lingering warming mouthfeel, nice. I will have to buy another and save it for the end of days.

Pours to a dark brown body with a thin off-white head. The beer is pretty flat. The aroma is raisins, candi sugar, dark sugars, yeasty. The flavor is dark sugars, raisins, and complex yeasts. Rich and complex. Sweet rich mouthfeel.

Brown...small, lingering,swirling amber head. Aroma of malt and cane syrup. Big sweet malt, raisin, prune, plum, fig, molassas & cocoa flavors. Rich like a thick hot chocolate fudge drink. Hingy bingy walla boom. Finish is a bitter chocolate, mineral, cola, wine, brown sugar behometh.