 BeerandBlues2 (3223), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 15, 2008 8th Big Beers, Belgians, and Barleywines. Pours clear brown with a small, frothy, off-white head, diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel), light hops (grass), average yeast (horse blanket, earth) with notes of dates and maple syrup. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness and acidity, light bitterness.
ogglethorp (889), Ohio, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 9, 2008 Bottle, drank with X-mas dinner. Pours a dark ruby/brown color witha medium sized tan colored head. Aroma of huge sweet malts, raisins, prunes, figs, light caramel and toffee. Flavor is sweet malts, caramel, raisins, figs, honey, spice. Palate is full bodied, medium carbonation, finished sweet and warming. Fantastic.
Snojerk321 (1999), San Diego, California, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 9, 2008 750ml bottle from Pizza Port Solana Beach. What a beer! Poured a beautiful hazed mocha brown. Head was very small and tan in color. Some of the best lacing I’ve seen left on this glass. Nose was not quite as sweet as I was expecting, which was nice. I mostly got caramel, honey, spice, and of course some candied dark fruit aromas as well. Flavor was sweet and malty overall. Another great Lost Abbey brew!!
SQNfan (591), Wheaton, Illinois, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 7, 2008 The beer is deep brown in color and looks just like root beer. The beer pours almost no head what-so-ever and the tiny amount that does pour fades quickly. The nose is filled with plum, currant, yeast, raisins, spice and clove. It is weighty in the mid-palate but light on its feet and comes off more medium-bodied than full. The flavors from the nose contnue but a hit of chocolate leads them through the mouth. The texture is very nice as it is on the silky and oily sides. This is an extremely nice Belgium-styled dark beer that if anything lacks a bit of concentration in the midpalate, though this is a minor complaint as it is a balanced beer that appears it will age well.
pnista (1008), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 6, 2008 Thanks for sharing this rather tasty treat Ryan! Pours a hazy brown with a thin light tan head. Rich full nose. Chocolate, small roast. Small herbal notes. Dark fruit, rather figgy. Full rich creamy body. big creamy slightly boozy. Dark fruit roasty sweet. Tannic character, but mellow dark bitter chocolate balanced this well. Long roastier finish is the only downside on this lovely beer! I imagine this settling down with age to become a really lovely beer!
yjb (110), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jan 6, 2008 Milk chocolate smoothy with raisins and other yummy fruits. Carob? A bit hot, but very nice.
TheEpeeist (1465), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 3, 2008 25.4 oz bottle. Dark whiskey brown with a trace of foam. Nose is banana and rum raisin. Medium light, very light carb, a little sticky. Taste is raisin, some caramel and banana with growing yeast. Good but alcohol creeps in.
AmEricanbrew (1860), Washington DC, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 3, 2008 Medium brown color with no head. Nice smell of pit fruits, vanilla. Very light carbonation. A decent taste follows the nose with a pit fruit sweetness . Cloying sweet, yeasty finish. Not a bad beer, but doesn’t compare to many belgian examples. Sep16/2007
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