Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

7/21/06 On tap@O’Brien’s: The color of prune juice with a purple tinge and just a wisp of foam that fades to a halo. Aroma is red wine and a wiff of banana. Flavor has a light sweet start with some spice and yeast, some port a hint of bubble gum and banana with a tangy dry finish. Light to medium bodied and smooth with lively carbonation. 11/24/07 Growler from the brewery: Prune juice color with just a wisp of foam. Aroma is rich dark fruit. Flavor follows aroma with raisin and prune some light spice with a tangy semi-dry finish. Medium body is smooth with lively carbonation.

Gentle, hazy chestnut brown with ring of head. Easy malting with a yeasty-sourness more reminiscent of a sour-brown ale piqued by notes of figs. Body is a flavorful medley of figs, caramel malts and some mild sour-yeasty notes. An excellent if perplexing drinking experience. Abbey Dubbel meets Flanders sour-brown and with rousing success.

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.

Shared by BBB63 before ’07 Dark Lord Day. Murky amber color with a foamy cream colored head. Dark sugar and ripe pit fruit nose. Flavors of plums, raisens, brown sugar, and some Belgian candi sugar. Nice beer.

Bottle brought back from California by McBeer and shared during Dark Lord Day 2007. Subtle aroma. Dark reddish amber with a nice tan head. Barrel aged character. Has a backbone. Pretty good. Not outstanding but has enough oomph to keep it interesting.

Name: Lost & Found
Date: 12/02/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear dark brown, wipsy beige head, sweet caramel and chocolate aroma, rich chocolate flavor, very dry, nice fruity character, light bittering hops, long chocolate finish,
-------- /> Name: Lost & Found
Date: 01/01/2007
Mode: bottle

sweet ripe fruit aroma, a bit light on the body, fruity chocolate flavor, the flavor stays rich and fruity to the bottom of the bottle but the chocolate starts to fade, nice sweetness does show up

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

This Abbey Double pours a deep brown color form a cork finished 750ml bottle. Medium to large sized white foamy head. Aroma is bready, yeasty, with raisins, plums, bananas and dates. A medium bodied Dubbel. Malts are fruity and sweet. Lots of fruit flavors (banana and plum) with some decent bready malt. Slightly spicy with some nice bright yeasts. Soft carbonation. Good balance. Nice sipping beer. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet with some spices.

Fully opaque brown under short-lived brown-yellow head. Creamy rich nose, even whiffs of blue cheese. Burnt malts and roasted nuts (Pecan/Brasil/...) Som dark candy sugar. Don’t get raisins in the nose, but some alcohol & higher alcohols. Dry dark beer, woody, very malty with overtones of roasted & burnt malts. Quite some sweetness in the basis, but always under the heavy roasted notes. Some musky, animal-like flavour mixing in. Nutty as well, again. Very well bodied. Nice, and original... not a real drinking beer, however - bit too potent. I find it strange to find so few fruity elements in it, as it seems to have been the object. Thanks to brewboy, anyway!