Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

750ml bottle generously shared by Degarth. Thanks, Joe! Pours an apricot color, with a bubbly, small off white head. No lasting power on the head. Aroma of dark fruits, apricots, yeast, and some mustiness. Fore is spritzy and lightly astringent. Finishes with yeast, candied dark fruits. Finish is sour, crisp and dry - medium length. Something about this beer screams "old", and I’m not sure if that was intended or a good thing.

pours a cloudy copper with full white head. sweet fig and cherries on aroma. spritzy full palate, complexity with figs, yeast, raisin, smooth finish. good aftertaste.

750ml bottle from bu11zeye. Aroma: Bready malt, candi sugar, spice, raisins, and belgian yeast. Appearance: Dark amber/orange in color and very hazy. Medium beige head was full, fizzy, and foamy with good retention. Good lacing. Flavor: Sweet bready malt with notes of caramel and candi sugar. Banana and spices, raisins and red wine. Some light floral notes into the finish. Finishes fairly dry with some malt and yeast carrying over. Palate: Medium bodied and creamy. Medium-high carbonation. Overall: Pretty good Dubbel. Lacked the deep flavor/aroma of the good Belgian examples, but was still a good beer.

Pour is a very nice looking murky, chestnut-mahogany color but the head is small, beige, fizzy and fully diminishing with no lace. Nose is pleasant with lots of figs, raisins, dates, caramelized notes, toasty nutty tones, light chocolate, and plum; very fruity and sugary but not overly sweet. Flavor is similar but with more malt richness; fig again is prominent, raisins, plums, nice Belgian chocolate, toasted almonds, caramelized dates, light brown sugar, and just a bit of toasted oak notes in the finish lending a mild and earthy bitterness. Palate is fair but dubbelish with a medium body, round, silky, thin, and very lively. Finishes with the fruit notes becoming almost apple-ish, like an apple brandy with other notes of similar chocolate, toasted almonds, brown sugar, and the oak notes lingering. A very nice fruity-type dubbel with the addition of the raisins really complementing the beer instead of dominating. A very disappointing appearance and an average palate but a very drinkable and likable beer. One of my favorite dubbels and I would expect nothing less from LA/PP.

From The Publick House- Boston.
Lucious pour with rich head. Aroma of roasted grains and butter. The flavor is mosty dark chocolate and pepper - with a dry and short finish. Most similar to Westmalle.

Very nice dubbel ale. It just falls a bit on the lighter end of the dubbel scale. Slightly thin, if not tinny, aftertaste. Aroma is muddled, with some alcohol, fig, and cherry (?) coming through, but none of these really make much of an appearance, giving the aroma of a bland multi-varietal wine. I’ll try more from Port Brewing, but this one was not life-changing.

The first thing you notice about this beer is it has an odd appearance. Not so much deep and dark as it is murky. The aroma is ginger and fig. A little on the unusual bend. The taste though is heavy in the raisin puree but unfortunately unimpressive. Felt as though this beer promised a lot but fell short.

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