Lost Abbey Sinners 08

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

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

<i>Bottled, thanks Marsblursi!</i> Cloudy mahogany colour, small head. lactic raspberry aroma with some wood. Citric and medium bodied. Spritzy with lots of red berries. Fresheneing and complex where the buttery malt sweetness is well balanced by the citric lactic acidity. It also possesses a caramelly Belgian style yest character that stays in the background. Very drinkable, yet mindblowingly complex and tasty!

37.5 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a lacing tan head. Aroma is dry and slight tart cherry. Mild wooden, liqourice spiced and cherry fruity. Nice tart mix with a lingering flavour and the liqourice beneath. Ends dry and cherryish flavoured. Stunning!9-4-9-4-18=4.4

From bottle, blind #28. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Distinct acidic and fruity from a distance. Dense fruity and acetone base aroma. Acidic, roasted malt, fruity and distinct acetone flavoured. Dry and yet smooth acetone flavoured into the far finish. ÆLasting berry fruity impression beyond the finish.8-3-8-3-16=3.8

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]

Bottle #28 at Papsø’s blindtasting. Hazy orange brown coloured with a small off white head. Fruity aroma of berries, oak and vanilla with acidic notes. Fruity flavour of berries, oak and vanilla with acidic notes and notes of glue. Tart finish.

Date: 08/18/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewery

Appearance: opaque dark brown, fine tan head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: tart dark cherry and chocolate aroma with a touch of rum,
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor with a big cherry tartness, dark caramel sweetness brings out the chocolate cherry flavor, touch of background funk adds a growing complexity,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Cloudy brown color. Quite nice Bretts aroma, mild, with cobwebs, cellar, very mild chocolate too. The body is quite strong, more than the average Lambic; there is a strong lemony sourness, with some astringency too, that fits well, here; strangely the hidden flavor is chocolate. Extreme. Quite good.