Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

Opaque reddish-brown. Aroma of plum, orange, raisin, some sweet brown sugar and caramel malts. Fairly clean but yeasty. The carbonation is a bit zippy. Finishes with raisin notes, alcohol heat and a hint of peachiness.

@ Brewery. Poured a clear deep amber color with a large creamy beige head. The aroma was sweet and fruity with a good amount of raisiny notes. The flavor was sweet and of dried fruits. Yeasty notes with some red apples as well. A crisp dry finish. Mild bitter finish.

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.

A nice brown color. It took several tries but finally got a raisin taste out of it. Very well done.

Bottle from realale420 (thanks), and again at Mugs Belgian Blast - this beer was a bit drier from the bottle than on tap, but otherwise the same - red/brown pour, a little cloudy - dry, almost smokey aroma, with hints of clove and other spices - the roasted malt character is suprising for the style, but not unwelcome - a little bit sweet on tap, but the smokey quality keeps it from being too powerful - plums, figs, some dried herbs - I’m really liking this brewery’s output so far.

Brownish, unfiltered. Fruity, estery sort of aroma and flavor. Very Belgian dubble-styled. Fairly low carbonation, sweetish and candy-ish flavor. Pretty tasty.

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.

A very good beer that I probably don’t appreciate enough because Pannepot Reserva preceded it. There is sweet malt in the aroma. Opaque brown appearance. Flavor has some fruit, including prunes and apple, as well as sweet malt. A thick beer, and very good in or out of its style.