Lost Abbey Serpents Stout

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

Pours a pure black color with a thin dark caramel colored head. Aroma is of chocolate, slight coffee, roasty, licorice, and some sweeter dough. Taste is very similar to Founders Breakfast Stout. It has a lot of chocolate with some hints of coffee. It is very dry. This leaves a nice chocolaty aftertaste. An excellent brew!

Pours an opaque chocolate brown with light tan head. Aroma is chocolate alcohol oak notes. Flavor is very chocolatey/dark chocolate, cacao seeds, oak and mild notes of cherry. Palate is creamy with medium carbonation is mild.

Bottle from Beermerchants.com. Pours jet black with a beige/brown head which makes a very brief appearance. Aromas of dark chocolate,coffee, dark fruits,licorice. Flavours of raisins, dark chocolate, some smoke, brown sugar. Quite earthy. Very pleasent mouthfeel. Nice, warming alcohol. Let’s you know it’s there. Finishes sweet and hoppy. Very nice.

Bottled @SBWF 2009
Pitch black color, no head. Licorice, coffee in the nose. Liquerish palate, warming alcohol. Some chocolate, dark malts and fruits. Vanilla sweetness. Nice sipping beer.

Thanks to savvy1982 for the share! Pours a semi-transparent black. The aroma is sweet, fruity, and roasty. Tastes quite complex. Quite good.

Bottle. Pours a black beer with a lightbrown head. The aroma is roasted with sweetness and bread. The flavor is sweet with malt and notes of alcohol and coffee. The palate is roasted and dry. Overall a really good beer.

Black with a small black beige head that quickly settles into a fine ring of lacings. Not an overly powerful smell, but still with a pleasant character of roasted malts and delightful fruity notes. Quite a lot of coffee. Hints of chocolate and vanilla. The taste is somewhat sweet with gently roasted malts and coffee to the fore. Fruits are more muted than in the smell. Some tannins. Notes of chocolate. The finish is somewhat bitter with a faint salty note of licorice, and a hint of wood. The alcohol provides a nice warming sensation, but not much to the flavors. All in all, quite tasty and balanced nut not overly powerful or complex. Full bodied with a velvety texture. Mild carbonation seems to fit the laid back character of the beer well. I think I was expecting more from this. Still a good beer, though. It’s well composed, but it could use a bigger spectrum or aromas and flavors. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)

Bottle courtesy of ogivlado who shared it with me and heavy (huge thanks!)
Poured an opaque black (very dark red possibly) body with a small brown head that went away slowly. A pungent, chewy almost sweet malty aroma wafted from the glass. Some roastiness and maybe some dry dust. A lighter roasty, sweetish malty taste, very nice, giving out nice light notes of chocolate and coffee. Not much alcohol, a balanced imperial stout, very nice.