Lost Abbey Serpents Stout

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

Bottle shared by badnewsbeers. Deep opaque brown/black body, medium-thin ochre head. Rich, complex nose, with milk chocolate, dark fruits (plum, cherry, berries), roasted malts, and warming wisps of alcohol. Silky, soft body with plummy chocolate, marshmallow, and charred roasted malts, enhanced by warming alcohol. Good heft. An excellent, rich stout.

750 ml corked bottle. An opaque black beer with a small, mostly lasting brown head. The aroma is extremely powerful and rather complex, heavily malty, lightly hoppy and yeasty with notes of roasted grains, chocolate, coffee, alcohol and a hint of dark fruits. The flavour is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Quite clean. Medium to full body, average carbonation, long finish with medium bitterness, moderately alcoholic. Very good stout with a light Belgian touch. I’d definately buy this again.

Wow. what a beer! So smooth and drinkable for 11%, the alcohol is well hidden. It has all the usual characteristics of a good Imperial Stout, but has a little of the sightly sweet dark fruit thing going on like the strong Belgians. Excellent!!!!!!

Bottle, pours like old motor oil with this tan head that dissipates quickly. Aroma is sweet fruit and smokey mustiness. Taste roasted malty sweetness then hard tongue curling bite of alcohol, smokey, thick. I like it a lot. I just wish we could get it in Ohio

Many thanks to GorditoABD...Pours a thick black with a medium tan head. Aroma is very chocolatey with notes of vanilla and roasted malt. Flavor follows the nose with hints of dark fruit, but more chocolate than anything. Smooth creamy finish....Fantastic! Thanks Chris!

2009 bottle dark brown-black pour, with a super-dark filmy head. aroma is belgian-stout-y and bursting with tons of different things: malt, grains, vanilla, scotch, chocolate, prunes, figs, tons of green olives, and sweet warm alcohol. flavor is a well-balanced mix of sweet, bitter, and alcohol bite, though reminiscent of thick chocolate milk. full bodied with a smooth but dry mouthfeel, has a long, sweet, and strongly alcoholic finish.

’09 bottle thanks to hophead22!
Black with a thin tan head that fizzles away upon pouring, leaving an oil slick behind. Nose is way sugary, bordering on juice with the light fruit, hints of roast and chocolate. Again simple in the flavor, more roast and licorice but a majority of the sugar, grape, and plum from the nose. Thin body, sugary finish with roast and licorice. Very simple and disappointingly aged, it’s already thinning out before a year.

Bottled 750ml. -from City Beer Store, San Francisco. Black coloured, medium sized thick brown head, sweet chocolate nose. Roasted malt, bitter chocolate and coffee with notes of wood and smoke. Alcohol is noticable, finish is bitter. Again easy drinkable and very good imperial stout.