Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

Brown/red pour with a small head. Aroma is dried fruits, dark fruits and caramel. Flavor is sweet. Palate is smooth and thick. Decent beer and hides alcohol well.

bottle poured a light brown in color with no pop on the cork and a still look in the glass. aroma has rich raisins, plumb, hefty sweetness, and some spices. mouth feel is sugary thick and the liquid is completely flat. flavor has loads of thick fruit, raisins, spices, and sugary sweetness. the flavors overall were real nice but the stillness was throwing. I have had this bottle for a few months so I will make a point of a rerate.

Bottle pours a dark brown color with a miniscule clear head. Nose is plums dates candied sugars and other dark caramel noted . Palate is flat and syrupy with a smooth clean finish. Flavors of alcohol , dates and dark fruits with some light sweet caramel notes

In the bomber bottle from Downtown Johnny Brown’s in San Diego. Purple-brown in color with a beige head that diminishes fairly quickly for such a big beer. Thick body. Lots of dark fruits- dates and raisins. Caramel meets tobacco. What a concoction.

Bottle pours brown with a beige colored head. Aroma is big, with notes of raisins, toffee, brown sugar, banana, and liquorice. Flavor is consistent with additional notes of molasses and red apple. Definately a worthy quad, but I much prefer 10 Commandments.

Brown pour. Aroma has tons of raisins, roasted malt, toffee, booze and some light roast malt. Flavor is a bit sweet with tons of dried fruit, caramel, dates, figs, brown sugar. Lightly hot finsih. Good.

Nose of prunes, malt, licorice-like notes, and very light roasty char. Deep brown body below a thin mocha head. Flavor is traditional quad, but with that added roasted/char quality that is unique for the style. With enough carbonation to lift any cloying qualities safely away from your palate, this is an unique take on a classic Belgian quad that deserves a try. Certainly not going to replace my St. Bernardus 12, but a welcome addition to the quad crew.

A less than impressive pour with a small, dark beige, fizzy head which is mostly diminishing very quickly and leaves minimal lace; the body is a murky, maroon color with notable effervescence and sediment. Nose is nice but a bit subdued for the style; notes of molasses, rum-soaked raisins, caramelized dark sugars, some English toffee in there, more spicy alcohol, candied dates, and hints at burnt caramel. Flavor is nice with more malt richness and surprisingly less fruit notes; light notes of raisins soaked in spiced rum, light candied dates, lots of molasses, hints at tobacco, more toffee, burnt caramel into the finish, hints at lightly roasted pecans also moving into the finish, a bit of banana bread notes from the yeast, and plenty of caramelized sugars. Palate is nice being full, soft to lively, round but a bit syrupy. Finishes with just enough bitterness from the roasted pecans and the burnt caramel, almost a bit oak-like?; other notes in the long, sweet finish include spiced rum, light raisins, candied dates, and still more caramelized dark sugars. This is a nice rendition of the great Belgian abts, although not at the same level, it is very pleasant and true to the style. Bold warmth, nice spice notes, plenty of malt richness, enough non-sweet notes malt notes to keep it from being cloying, and just some light complements of raisin and other fruit. This brewery does very nice things and a nice American abt is a rarity, but I have come to expect nothing less from LA/PP.