Lost Abbey Lost and Found

Thanks to Mike for sharing this! Orange pour with copper undertones, fluffy off white head and spotty lace. Candied fruit and spice on the nose. Flavor slightly spicy with a little yeast and caramel.

(750 ml bottle from Kappy’s, cellared for 10 mos. after purchase) Pours dark reddish-amber with less than a finger of khaki head that dissipates rather quickly to a thin layer. Aroma of brown sugar, candy-malt, dark fruit, toasted caramel and molasses. Quite nice although I didn’t specifically detect raisins. Mouthfeel is fairly smooth, a bit sticky. Also seemed to lose its carbonation rather quickly. Flavor of dense dark fruits, candy malt, spice, dark caramel and a bit of smoke. Perhaps some red wine. The spice is almost cinnamon-like and reminds me of something like Southampton Abbott 12 perhaps. Pretty sweet, maybe just a little too much so. Lightly hot. The density of aroma and flavor is almost quad-like. Pretty good but sort of tailed off on me as I drank the bottle instead of getting better or at least holding its own. At first I thought I had at least a 4.2 beer here.

750ml caged and corked bottle served in a snifter. Dark reddish brown pour with a thick head of fizzy tan foam that displayed some great retention. Decent lacing. The aroma included toasted caramel, raisins, and plums. Heavy on the dark fruits and sweet malt. The flavor had dark fruits and plenty of caramel. Pretty sweet. Some warming alcohol in the finish. Medium-bodied with a hefty dose of aggressive carbonation. A fairly standard dubbel. Decent.

750 ML 2008 Bottle-Trade w/hellbilly-Cloudy amber color w/a medium tan head. Sweet, biscuit aroma. Flavors of bread dough, malt, caramel, dark fruit, raisins, fig, & molasses. Had a sweetness to it, but not in a cloying or sickening way. Deep, full, satisfying sweet malt backbone. Very easy drinking; alcohol well hidden. Long malt finish; quite good! Thanks Joshua!!!

750 ml bottle. Pours a hazy brownish amber color with a medium fine beige head. The aroma had a good amount of dried dark fruits, moderate sweetness, biscuity malt, and a splash of caramel. The flavor had moderate sweetness, dried dark fruits with raisin being more pronounced in the finish, bready/biscuity malt, and a touch of a warming bite at the end. Medium to medium full bodied and quite good. I’ve found that the Lost Abbey beers with the least hype are the ones that I can see myself drinking over again.

750 ml. bottle. shared with Gabe. Pours a thin long lasting tan head, with some lacing, over a cloudy, medium amber (SRM 15) cloudy, with some floaties, body......nose of fig, raisin, sweetened breads....taste of sweet dried fruits, cherry, fig raisin, with a mild bitterness toward the end, alcohol tones are present.....mouth feel is light, carbonation low. This is really more typical of an Abt/Quad or a Belgian Strong style than the usual Dubbel. The malt back bone is not as pronounced as most and the phenolic/ester from the yeast really comes forward. It illustrates how wide styles really are.

Tasting at a beerfest [Disclaimer: This was tasted along with many, many other beers during a tasting at Julios. Some of the details are a little hazy]. Pretty good but a bit too sweet for my tastes

many dubbels develop flavors of dried grapes but this one really hits it close to home. sizzling mouthfeel i expect from any half-assed dubbel (this is, and then some) and plenty of fig and caremlized pit fruits. quite strong note of mollasses however. high carb tells me the yeast has been feasting but it seems as though it has a way to go in settling down the sweetness. when lost abbey shoots for specific styles like this they seem to do better then with general belgian ales. far from my favorite dubbel but still a very solid contender.