Lost Abbey The Angels Share (Bourbon Barrel)

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

Thanks to our Lost Abbey memebers for opening this fine brew. Pours amber with off white head. Aroma is just excellent, bourbon and oak just engulf the glass, plenty of nice malts and sweetness (vanilla). Taste, dark fruits, and a nice almost coconut taste coupled with butterscotch and vanilla that coat the palate. Despite the 12.5% abv, this is one sweet beer, filled with the flavor of bourbon. This was very hard to put down and see the empry glass.

A dark brown appearance with a carbonated beige head. The aroma is whiskey, chocolate, dark fruit, alcohol, and licorice. The flavor contains a slight sour presence with some chocolate, raisins, licorice, oak, and whiskey. The aftertaste is thick and sweet. Overall a nice beer!

Bottle, much thanks to wetherel. Pours an elegant dark ruby brown with huge tan head. I smell a little bit of bourbon before I lift the glass. Once I get my nose in there, I smell oak, cocoa powder, alcohol, brown sugar. The flavor is rich cocoa, vanilla, oak, char... oh wait, I’m describing bourbon. Behind all that bourbon is a thick caramel sweetness, with notes of honey, raisin, and dark fruits. The finish is chocolate, char, and ample alcohol burn. The base beer is amazing, but the bourbon is overstated and detracts from my enjoyment of the beer under it.

C&C 375ml bottle. Thanks to kmweaver for sharing! Deep brown with a huge beige head. Sweet, malty bourbony nose, woody and raisiny. Flavor mirrors the nose. The bourbon really works here, enhancing the flavor rather than killing it. Nice!

Brown with a tan head. Aroma is bourbon, oak, toffee, alcohol, caramel, light chocolate. Taste is somewhat dry, toffee, alcohol, caramel, brown sugar, yeast.

North Raleigh Tasting! Opened like a Champaign bottle, cork hit the ceiling, leaving a slight scuff. Dark Brown pour with fluffy head a wonderful lace. Bourbon and oak on the nose. Maple syrup, bouubon, oak and caramel malts. Another excellent effort!

Shared by turdferguson, thanks Sam!!! Got to try this next to a bottle of Angel’s Share. Pours a dark ruby brown with a one to two finger head. More carbonated than the Angel’s Share. The aroma shows more oak than Angels Share, sweet, very oaky, nice vanilla, light alcohol, very light bourbon undertones. The flavor was sweet, oaky, vanilla, oak tannins, as Sam said "the base beer seems hidden". The oak is very nice but it seems to detract from the foundation more than Angels Share. Still great though.

bottle thanks to miketd. black pour with a nice thick cream head. awesome scents of vanilla, bourbon and wood. very smooth on the palate with a big vanilla flavor with hints of bourbon and toffee. slight boozy finish but overall it’s damn good.