Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

750ml, pours brown with tan head. nose has brown sugar, bread, dark fruits, and spicy yeast. flavor is nutty, bready, slightly spicy yeast, and some dark fruits. a basic abbey beer that doesn’t really do anything special.3.4.

rated blind from "Better Know a Style: Abbey Dubbel" tasting. pours ruby with tan head. nose is smokey, caramel, alcohol. flavor of red fruits, doughy, yeasty, alcohol. mouth feel is smooth. meh. 3.1.

2/23/08, another sample from a bottle shared by holdenn. This is easily my least favorite LA brew as it continues to unimpress me. lots of dried fruit and some yeastyness leaving a lot to desire. i keep trying this brew and wanting more but I guess that’s what Amazing Grace is for. 3.2.

Pour is hazy brown with a thin tan head...smell is fruity with raisins and plums and yeast...flavor is sweet with nice farmhouse dryness...well done...

On tap at pizza port san clemente. papajohn has it right: it looks like prune juice The nose and aroma are a mix of dates, candy sugar and banana. Pretty smooth to drink.

Bottle; Poured a nice reddish brown; Small off white/tan head. Aroma was good; with hints of dark fruit, brown sugar, bubblegum, yeast. Flavor had very strong chocolate component; also hints of caramel, dark fruits, and candy sugar. I enjoyed this, and it got better throughout the tasting.

9/19/2008: Lost Abbey Lost & Found pours a hazy, golden borwn color with a tan head. The aroma has caramel, slight fruit and spice and the flavor is malty, fruity, and quite yeasty with some brown sugar in the middle and raisin in the finish. No alcohol can be detected. It has a medium to medium-full body, a smoot texture, and creamy mouthfeel. Overall this is a very good beer!

1 pint 9.4 fl. oz. corked and caged bottle (Alc. 8.0% by Vol.). Rating #426 for this beer.

Bottle. A murky dark ruby brown color with a foamy light brown head. A raisin, sweet caramel, dark fruit, pepper and spiced aroma. A well spiced flavor with candy, figs, dark fruits, raisins, pepper, and banana in the flavor. This bottle is much better than the tap version I had two times at the Toronado.

750 ml bottle shared by grant. Thanks. Metallic, sweet, fruity, peaty aromas present. I detect some brown sugar/molasses as well. Mildly hazy dark amber/garnet body with a small, delicate yellow-tan head. Rather attractive. Malty sweet start, becoming vinous, chewy, fruity, with some molasses-like flavors. Nice bubbly, spritzy carbonation in the middle. Finishes roasted and chewy. I’m a big fan of this stuff.

Bottle from a case that was reportedly flat, but I managed to achieve carbonation with some TLC in my cellar. Amber-brown body with a medium, fading beige head. Sweet, peanutty malt aroma with cocoa and cooked banana notes. Evident caramelization in the flavor, plus an aspect of rubber tire. Warms nicely though. Develops into an understated, pleasing sipper. Good American Abbey Dubbel overall.