Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

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.

I once was lost, but now… It delivers as promised in the description: aroma and flavors of figs, dried fruits, raisins, and notes of bread dough. The finish is spicy but slightly dry making you want more, which I do. This is a well made beer.

Sample @ the Brewery. Pours a deep amber color so typical of the dubbel style. Aroma is heavy dark fruit with slight spicy notes thrown in as well. Taste is dark fruit on the top with caramel and malt sweetness, ending in a slight grainy and nutty bite. Very nice.

(USA) Courtesy of AFI96, thanks Waylo !!! Pours a nice burgundy color with a dissipating tan head. The aroma is of caramel, dark fruit, and nuts. Taste of caramel, spice, and molasses. This abbey dubbel is very enjoyable and is worth looking for.

750ml. Pours dark ruby with a tiny but well sustained white head. Aroma is very sweet, syrupy, dark fruits, but in a good way. Raisins. Smells like a lighter version of a Bernardus 12 or a Rochefort 10. Or maybe that’s just the raisins. Tastes the same as the aroma. Yeah, this is pretty good.

750ml caged&corked bottle. Pours a dark amber, cloudy, with a very thick light tan head (gushing bottle). The aroma is tangy, malty sweet with a good bit peppery phenols, too. The flavor starts lightly sweet and musty. There is some light dark malt character - not quite chocolatey - with some doughy, toffee notes and some soft fruit. The finish is dry and somewhat sweet. Mouthfeel is surprisingly light in body, but feels full and creamy after some swishing. The carbonation level is high, but not overly so. Overall, a decent abbey dubbel but not nearly as special as I was hoping. I’ve read nothing but amazing things about Lost Abbey, so I was hoping for an amazing start. Perhaps one of their other beers will dazzle me (10 Commandments and Red Barn are in the cellar...)

Pours dark, barely translucent brown with a 1finger pillowy light tan head. Aroma is tree fruit, caramel, raisins, fresh baked yeasty bread rolls, orange marmalade, hints of grass and floral hops. Flavor is dusty toasted white bread with orange marmalade, fig, raisin, burnt sugar, wet leaves, earthy notes, a little red apple skin and blackberries. Finish is dark fruit, burnt sugar, a little alcohol and light bitternes. Palate is medium thickness, a little oily up front and fairly dry though a little sticky to finish, carbonation is about right for a dubbel, nice and soft, but vibrant. Overall this is a tasty beer, a good dubbel but, really nothing to interesting.