Lost Abbey Yellow Bus

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Ale
San Marcos, California USA

This presently top-50 beer is entered to celebrate my 1900th US rating. Bottled at RBSG 2008. A hazy golden beer with a white head. The aroma is acidic with notes of malt, citrus, wood, and brettanomyces. The flavor is acidic with quite strong notes of wood and brettanomyces, with a tart finish. Very nice.

From bottle at Lost Abbey. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a lacing white head. Dense orange fruity and light brettish dry aroma. Flavour is tart to smooth fruity orange. Brett dry too. Good balance and still very flavourful/fruity. Dry and tart finish with a persisting fruity note.

Bottle… RBSG ‘08… This beer rocks!… Hazy golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. Acidic, peppery aroma. Medium to full-bodied with modest carbonation. Very sour… just enough residual sugar to keep my lips from puckering and my eyes from clenching shut. Finishes tart and fruity, then dries out. Liquid fun. A joy to drink!

(Draught) Pours a cloudy golden orange body with a small white head. Aroma of lemon, mustiness oak, peach, and horseblanket. Flavor of tart lemons and fresh peaches. Excellent mouth puckering acidity with a dry oak finish. This sour ROCKS!!

Sampled at the second annual Bistro’s West Coast Barrel Aged Beer Fest: Pours a hazy goldenrod with a frothy, well-lacing white head. Aroma of tart sweet lemon and some earthy oak complexity along with notes of olive oil. Body starts semi-sweet with some funky earthy complexity and faint vegetal character toward a tart, slightly puckering finish. Has some mild earthy peachskin flavor throughout. Pretty interesting.

Bottle and served in my Duvel big snifter: Hazy golden hue with a forever lasting head and excellent lace. The nose detects peach fruit, sweaty horseblanket, lemongrass and juniper, a hint of mineral water, oak, and peat, and an earthy pity vapour, UTTERLY WONDERFUL! The taste is much more fresh peach juice forward but the funk is starting to show up on the palate too. A minerally and oaky note about the edges as well. The mouth feel is tart and mouth watering, completely refreshing and I want to have more. Bone dry finish is even a hit. I AM NOT A PEACH FAN, yet for the second time in 12 month a beer based with peaches as taken me to somewhere I thought I would never go. (The other is Livery Impeche).

RBSG @ Lost ABbey. Poured a hazy gold with a white head. Tart acidic aroma with great funky notes. Peach skins and metalic notes. Tart fruity flavor. Smooth peach and leather. Nice acidity in the throat. Refreshing citrus taste. Light body.

Bottled at Lost Abbey, 2007 bottle. Poured just about clear medium golden with a short, fizzy cap of white head. The aroma was powerful with tart peach skins and lesser apricot upfront and a fresh, spicy oak impression supporting it.. very assertive. The flavor found bracingly tart peach skins that singed the tip of the tongue for an initial impression.. some meaty peaches rolled in behind along with a second hit of acidity (vinegar and more peach skins).. engaging throughout. Lots of lip-puckering sourness on the palate along with light scratchy bitterness and zesty wheat.. long, bone-dry, memorable finish. Excellent!