Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

Corked bottle, bought @ De Molen. Dark brown color. Maltaroma with hints of herbalness and dried fruit. Malty sweet flavor with toffee, milk chocolate, alcohol, butterscotch, raisin and lciorice. Well balanced ale.

Bottled. Beer no. 10 @ American Blind III. Amber coloured. Unclear. Dense brown head. Cocoa, alcohol, sweetness and fruits in the aroma. Flavour is light yeasty, sweet, full of cocoa and fruits. Medium bodied. Quite dry. Sweet and spicy end. Nice one.

Bottle. Corked and caged 750mL. Pours a bubbly mahogany. Muddied clarity. Nose is dusty earth cob-webby yeast, dark fruits, and soft caramel. Taste is mostly bittersweet and has some under-ripened dark fruit flavors. Some earthy flavors, Belgian yeast, flowers, and dusty books round out the flavor. Body is very bubbly but still chewy. Lots of burping throughout this bottle. Finishes with more dark fruits, bit sweeter maltiness, big yeast and floral notes and softer earthen flavors. Nice!

Bottle. Murky brown-red with a small sudsy white head. Dark caramel sugars and raisin aroma. Alcohol is characteristic of the flavour as well as sugar and sweet malt. There are also some toasted/burnt caramel notes. Pretty good.

Enjoyable though nowhere near as great as their Judgment Day. Mine was crystal clear mahogony brown, small tan head. Nose of sweet toffee and dried fruits. Mouth a little thin but ok. Taste a little simple ... sweet toffee and candi sugar, a little raisin and prune. // End of the bottle is not as clear as the first pour, of course.

Minimal off-white head of fine bubbles. Sparse carbonation. Looks a little lifeless in the glass. Dark malts, molasses, spices and dark fruits. Color is a ruddy dark mahagony brown. Sweet and malty flavor, with some raisins, more molasses and caramel. Typical dubbel flavor but a little bit flat. Very flavorful though. Finishes sweet and malty. A decent brew but nothing really that fantastic. Smooth and flavorful.

(tasting at Brickskeller) hazy light brown with small tan head. Yeast and spice aroma. Flavor was malt, yeast, spice, clove, slightly sweet dark fruit.

750ml bottle from the cooler at Papago: Pours to a mostly opaque dark copper/brown color, does show bits of amber when held to the light. The head is medium height, tan colored, and sticks nicely atop the beer. The aroma is dark fruits, raisin, plum, more prune/plum than raisin really, showing plenty of sugary/thick malt scents in the nose, some carrots, mild spice. Taste is sweet, but not overly so, showing a very malty sweetness as the groundwork - carrot, figs, raisins, light molasses-soaked bread - with some hints of light smoke, yeast, light spice, and some mild esters. Medium-full bodied, lively carbonated. This one is good but doesn’t quite live up to some of the better Belgian abbey dubbels out there. For some reason this tastes like a homebrewer’s attempt to clone a classic dubbel. It’s quite good, but somehow there’s something missing that I just can’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps it’s something in the body, too clean of a yeast character, or something else. It hits close to the mark and is well worth your time, but there are better out there.