Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

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!!!

This is one of the best of the style I’ve had so far. Hazy reddish brown pour with small white head. Aroma is cranberry, raison, and loads of dark fruit with lost of caramel sweetness and mild yeast character. Flavor is sweet, balancing dark fruit, booze, and light fruit surprisingly well. Lots of different sugar types make the flavors complex and unique. Palate is full, leaving a sticky smacking finish.

I really liked this dubbel from Port Brewing. had it twice now, and its good stuff. dark brown pour with amber edges and an off-white head with nice lacing. aroma of raisins, caramel, and darker fruits. great malty chewiness in the body with hints of banana and finishing with yeast notes that end with sweet and sour sugary flavors before the alcohol finish. nice!

Had this on tap last night at the tap room in pacific beach and it was almost a religious experience, and had to run out and get a bottle for christmas eve dinner at my sisters house, BOTTLE I have to admit as Im drinking it out of the bottle now it is not the same as it was on tap last night but ive got the bottle in front of me so this is what Im rating... foggy brown color with no head, date/raisin aroma, dark fruit flavor, alcohol present and feels pleasantly warming, not at all harsh or hot, mildly spicey, bright zesty fruity finish... he bottle im drinking has sort of an off tart/sour flavor that is way off, maybe an old bottle that wasnt kept very well (from BevMo), the beer I had on tap last night didnt have the off sour finish at all, it was nearly a perfect ale... the difference is startling... ON DRAFT Heres the rating that I wrote down last night... Dark red body, thin white head, plumbs, dates, trappist yeast banana nose, bubble gum flavor, wow, light lemon flavor, roses, light fruit on a dark body, complex and very interesting, sooooo good, wow, blown away by this beer The rating is sort of merge between the two experiences.

Pours a deep plum color with a tan head. Smells of dark fruit and pie spices. Tastes of cola, dry cocoa, and faint lemon. The combination is awkward.

750mL shared into tulips. Courtesy of Shyam.

Pours muddy, super cloudy brown with a two-finger yellowish tan head that settles down quickly to a nice protective layer. Actually, this beer is 100% opaque light brown. It looks like straight up mud. Aroma of figs, homemade apple pie, apple danish. No lacing. Taste is very dry throughout with dry cocoa powder. There are also notes of spiced apples, Chambord, Grand Mariner, some oak, cherries. Some warming from the 8%. Creamy, rich mouthfeel. Yum.

Pours a muddy red/brown with some yellow highlights and moderate head. Most things about this beer are better when you’ve got all that sediment poured in the glass, including the aroma. Raisins are pretty noticable here, but there’s some light banana, some cloves and other spices, some caramel and candy sugar. Strong and totally inviting. Taste is sweet and earthy, some slight raisins at first, but quickly overtaken by some caramel brown sugar, tobacco, dirt/leaves, and persistant burnt toast dryness. The dryness on the tongue is a little off in the first glass, but with the cloudy glass is nice and well integrated in the profile. Finishes with more toast, light coffee, leaves and butterscotch. There still some effevescent yeast and fruit to brighten the flavor a bit, but you detext in the back of your nose and don’t really taste it. That’s fine by me. This is an earthier abbey and very mellow and well-rounded. If it didn’t wow me from the start, by the end of the second glass, I realized how many things I like about this beer. Good stuff!

Tap at Toronado. Pours with a dark, copper color. The aroma is dominated by spices and a bit of floweriness. The flavors are complex: spices, raisins, hops, bubblegum and some sweet malts. Nice body, excellent finish.