Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

750mL Bottle. This took forever for me to get around to drinking. This beer was approximately 1 year old. A 2007, drank in 2008. Corked with a light spritz and slowly dying carbonation. Aroma cast a glow of settled, alcohol infused tannic fruits. Definitely some undeniable golden raisin shadows over a glow of lightly toasted caramels, sweet onion glaze and fruitcake. Typically phenolic and still a little warm. Poured in red-brown, lightly hazed with a rim of off-white. Flavor presented well-melded characters running the gamut from condensed sugar raisin bread to salted figs and balsamic, back to the lighter side of apricots. Fruity and minerally. The Lost Abbey yeast and mineral character settles in and braces the alcohol against the malt. Works well with Carne Adobado. I do appreciate that the malt flavors are well-intergrated, sweet, but not syrupy and playing well off of the alcohol. Complex, but not crazy. Starting to show a nip of age. The faintest, dustiest wisper of hops hopes to corner some of the gin sugars, but doesn’t get very far. Obviously a decent Dubbel, but maybe not one that I would grab again, as I would look for a little more darkness, depth and drinkability.

Bottled. Tasting @ Kolding Bryglaug. Aroma is very fruity, lots of raisin. Hazy, brown coloured with a lasting, off-white head. Taste is sweet with a little sourish touch. It has raisin.. Lots of raisin. Some sugar as well. Bit dry and smooth. Good, enjoyable beer.

750ml bottle.Poured a cloudy mahogany brown. Light nose of raisins and belgian yeast. Rich and complex tasting,slightly sweet, with a hint of the alcohol, and a fairly smooth finish. I tasted something slightly metallic in the finish, which I could have lived without.

Red amber with a small off-white head. Aromaq has bready malt, some raisin and a touch of berries, that could be raspberry. Dry and smooth malty flavour.

Bottle @ thewolf-and-his-flock-of-sheep tasting session. Hazy orange brown color, medium brownish head. Aroma is slight sugary, quite fruity, raisins. Very malty taste, sugary sweet. Again these kind of brews tend towards barley wines instead of abbey dubbels.

Thanks to the generous nature of the Lost Abbey clergy, I had a taste of this at the brewery. Rockin’ place! The pour was a dark amber transparent color, yet it is not filtered. Inhaling a waft reveals raisins and molasses. The beer itself is incredibly smooth to drink with hints of chocolate, pepper, and raisins.

My first Lost Abbey beer!!! Pours a murky orange brown color with thin off white head. Looks a lot like iced tea and lemonade. Aroma is wonderfully deep malt, dried apricots, over ripe grapes, faint alcohol, and a bit of peppery spice to round it all off. Flavors follow the aroma well. Roasty sweetness, mild burnt toast, toffee, caramel, golden raisins, pepper, licorice mild smoked wood... all these flavors blend seemlessly. Body is smooth with mild carbonation. This is really wonderful. I think this should be rated higher than the Chimay Red personally.

Spicy aromas, malty with hints of caraml. Pours dark amber with no head. Malty with a slight tart funkiness, spicy hops, caramell flavors. Great beer.