Lost Abbey Sinners 08

Formerly brewed at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Bottled. Darkish pour with little head. Distilled vinegar and rice vinegar aroma, with a slightly spicy characteristic to it. This is a soggy beer, like an old wet towel, with some grapey vinegar notes towards the finish. Slight hints of anise come through. The balance seems a bit off kilter here, like this is ready to go totally off at any minute. I enjoy this, but it is flawed.

Bottle: The aroma consists of cherries (mostly sweet, but lightly tart), light caramel, vanilla, and faint vinegar. It pours a cloudy orangish-brown with a small khaki head. The flavor starts with cherry, a hint of vanilla, and very faint vinegar. The finish quickly turns to tart cherry with a hint of oak. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle 375ml. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #28. ]
Clear medium brown color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry tart, acidic, sour berry, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090612]

Same fancy and clasy bottle as Red poppy..now with a burning cross. Theese guys know how to wrap their stuff. The appearence in the glass is moisty brown and muddy..not particular tempting and good looking. The nose is sour as hell - almost to a point where the sourness is picking your nose, almost like real vinegar from the bottle. The taste is likewise sour with a sourness like fresh green grapes with a light sweetness. its almost flamish sour that reach out for a lambic. The palate is buttery. Thank you for sharing Mikkel

Bottle Pours out a dark brown with some red highs topped off with a small white head. Aroma was very nice lots of black berries, wood and plenty sour/tart. Tast was a lot like the aroma. But with some sweet chocolate and brown sugar. A nice bitter tart and a little oak. Thanks once again to Toby.

Dark brown with a medium beige head. Sour aroma with roasted malt, lacto, brett and sour berries. Flavour had lacto, brett, sour berries, roasted malt and wood. Finished sour. Nice

Entered to celebrate my rating number 13,200. Bottled. A deep red-brown beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of brettanomyces, acetone, lacto, wood, and lots of fruit. The flavor is acidic actually quite sour with strong notes of fruit and medium notes of brettanonmyces, berries - sour cherries, wood, and acetone, leading to a dry, tart, and woody finish. The acidity draws out the moutwater. Had it at the brewery, which is the rating that stands, and blind with a rating of 8/3/8/4/16=3.9

Bottle 37,5 cl. Courtesy of KimJohansen/Ungstrup. Hazy reddish dark brown with a small off-white head. Medium body, wood, marzipan, acetone and horse blanket and a rather sour finish. 120609