Lost Abbey Lost and Found

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

Cloudy brown with a small white head. Sweet and fruity with figs, dates and plums in the nose and on the tongue. Nice alcohol presence, warming. Lightly bitter finish. Very nice abbey ale.

Brown w. a hint of orange, decent amount of sediment, light tan head. Nose is fruit - apples, cherries, grapes mixed with a healthy dollop of yeast, caramel, slight alcohol, fig. Flavor is caramel, fruit, nuts, yeast, alcohol. Chocolate in the finish. Butter but in no way aggressive. Very solid.

Bottle: For ramenen´s b-day party. Very sweet, lots of red fruits and sweet bread dough.

750 mL bottle from FlacoAlto. Pours sparkling tawny with a fizzy light brown head, somewhat diminishing, fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, caramel, meal), light hops (grass), average yeast (earth) with notes of cardboard, honey and apple. Average duration, moderate sweetness, acidity and bitterness; roasted caramel malt, earthy yeast, fragrant hop and alcohol flavor, figs, dark candied fruit notes. Full bodied, lively carbonation, sticky texture and a metallic-bitter finish.

Bottle shared with Blankboy, Hogtown Harry, Jerc, Mds, and Mabel, Harry’s bottle.Looks great" dark brown, small tan head, cloudy. Strong malt, candy sugar aroma. Musty taste, fruity, candy sweetness. Complex. Very good.

750 ml bottle. Pours a dark cloudy amber with a creamy medium sized beige head. Aroma of dates, caramel, brown sugar, figs and yeast. Taste is mildly sweet with hints of brown sugar, caramel, dates, raisins, fresh yeast with a slight spicy finish. Very nice brew from a great brewery.

Bottled sample. Nice copper color to this one, with lots of carbonation. Sweet, with plenty of dark fruit and malt, very sweet on the lips. very nice drinker, alcohol is well hidden. By trying this beer, I’ll return to rating this style more, as I enjoy it alot!

A big thankyou to Kook for lobbing this one back from the U.S.
At room temperature into a now oiled tulip at a tasting on Kook’s return to Oz. It poured a lazy, hazy chestnut with a level thin beige pad that held to my amazement. Generous, spiced, winter warmer nose - had that herbally infused, thick, hot cocoa mix melded with heavily clad, peppery spices, that savoury fruitcake blend before its added to the dough, edges of raw tree-bark and some burnt sugar just on end to twist the nostril hairs. It swiftly changes form on the palate for here it is discernibly nutty, dry, woody and dusty. The very tip holds all of what of the sweetness, a dark honey taste, maybe some powdered chocolate and a drift towards hazelnut praline. It is mouth-filling with flavour, though, hugely malty but not overdone. Age selective malts, raw, yeast extracted depth mid-palate, slight roasted tang in back, silky as it moves across. Body is creamy, medium beyond the nice feel. Finish is dry, again showing so much malt, that nutty flavour peaks here, a little earth and dust linger, fade gently. A very nice ale, another of the nights top notch performers. Cheers Kook (1 pint, 9.4Fl.Oz, Date unknown)