Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

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

Bottle, labeled as Lost Abbey (not Pizza Port) Cuvee de Tomme. Excellent dark reddish-brown color with a tan head. Aroma of dark fruits, oak, and tartness. Flavor is complex with sour cherries, figs, raisins, vanilla, oak, and sourness that isn’t too intense. Mild sweetness present as well to balance. Sharp palate with medium carbonation and fairly full body. Good stuff.

Tap at Brouwer’s Sour Fest during SBW. Mildly sour nose. Looks black in the glass but is actually chocolate brown when held to the light. Almost no head. Flavor is subtle. Starts off mildly sour then very tart. Sour apple and grapes linger on the palate. Medium body. I love Lost Abbey/Pizza Port beers but this wasn’t as good as I had hoped.

Nice dark brown-red pour. Slight opaque. Bubbly with a little bit of sediment floating around. Nice lacing on the glass and a thin light tan head. Apple juice aroma with lots of fruit. Nice fruity sourness. Tart but doesn’t over power. Perfect. Some raisin notes.

dark brown pour, no head, as it warms lots of vinegar scent forms to compliment the woodiness. Taste is strong on fruits, a little oaky, very acidic with nice vinegar notes

Pours a reddish brown with a small reddish brown head that dissapears before you can set the bottle down. The aroma is of rich chocolate liquour, cherries, strawberries, wood and earth. Very intoxicating. The flavor is amazingly complex with sour cherries, cranberries, chocolate, wood, and mollasses. It has a very thick body for the style and is mouthwateringly sour and salty. This is one of those creative brews in a class by itself that actually works really well. I loved it. Just wish is wasn’t so dang expensive. Its a flavor explosion in the mouth, with a nice woody aftertaste.

Re-rate due to a bottle from the brewery tasted on 7/30/09. Similar aromas, appearance and flavor. Good carbonation. Still a phenomenal beer, however, incredible sourness that dominated the flavor and killed my palate. Revising from 4.6 to 4.2 due to lack of drinkability and intenseness on my tongue. Draft for Sourfest 2009 at Brouwer’s for SBW. Pours a dark clear brown with a hint of ruby red. Great malty aroma with vanilla dominating, but the citrus undertones give you a heads up of what you are about to dig into. You get some blackberry and cherry undertones, but ultimately a very smooth, good sour.

On tap for SBW Sour Fest; one of 16 tried. If I can find this one again it will be the first beer I order. Wonderful. Pours a near black with thin beige head and has a very pleasing palate. Aromas of sour straws, vinegar, brown sugar and tart apple. Complex tastes of cherry, coffee, chocolate, slight bourbon, oak, and roasted vanilla, with a definite lingering sourness.

On tap at Brouwer’s for sour fest. Pours a black hue with a small ring of head. The aroma is subtle, slightly tart dark fruits and leather. The taste is a huge burst of sour like biting into a liquid sour patch kid. Candy sweetness along with the potent sourness. The sour lingers on the palate but never burns the palate, smooth and inviting.