Lost Abbey Lost and Found

3-2-08 bottle shared at tasting
Thin amber light brown in color with a small tan bubbly head. Nice smooth candied apple smell with light caramel notes in there too. Sweet flavor of doughy bread and sweet malt. Mouthfeel is fitting for the flavor. Drinkable but not on the top of my list overall. Just a bit more alcohol than I wanted to notice.

Bottle. Poured light brown with a red high lights. Smell of dried raisins, figs, plum, yeast and candy sugar. Taste is same as above with a lively carbonation. Little bit of a oak in there but I know this was not oak aged. Great Dubbel.

Pours a muddy caramel color with some yeast in the glass. Nice beige head. Smell is oddly refreshing and minty with some alcohol presence. Taste is rather mundane with perhaps a hint of belgian yeast, light malt flavor, and again an alcohol presence that comes through as almost minty again. Drinkable, and not really offensinve, as the flavor is so mild, but nothing really screamed great beer about this one, to me.

Had this beer on tap at Toronado in San Francisco. This strong beer tasted of caramel and sweet, candied orange peel.

In short: Intense Dubbel. Rich nutty/fruity body and powerful hopping. One of my favourite of the style.
How: Bottle, 750ml, various aging (little variation), this rating for a 6+ months old bottle
The look: Cloudy golden-brown body with a small beige head
In long: Strong nutty and caramel nose. Taste is like eating one of those grocery store bags of mix stuff (nuts, raisins, dried fruits) covered by rich caramel. Some earthy notes. The intense citric hops really sets it apart from most dubbels. So intense that it’s hard to take big sips. Body is just as decadent as high-class scotch ales or barley wines. Dubbel s don’t get much better than that. I got a lot of satisfaction from the Lost & Found, but still no sign of my missing gloves.

Dark mahagony brown with nice tan head. Aroma is spicey with fig, raisins and candied sugar. COmplex mouthfeel and flavour, lots of dark fruit, plum and raisins with underlying sugary and yeasty malts. Nice smooth beer.

750 ml bottle, very ugly looking beer that I thought was not going to be very good but quite the opposite, fluffy head that recedes to a light brown ring, candied sugar and yeasty fruit yield an ephemeral essence, excellent with a Cohiba piramide

Bottle. Murkey, earthy brown pour with a small off white head. smells like raisons and fruit. Taste is raisons and fruit with some alcohol in the back. Not bad.