Santo Ron Diego
(has 2 batches)
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.11
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The first beer to be barrel-aged in Rum Barrels released by The Lost Abbey, Santo Ron Diego began as a strong ale brewed dark candi syrup and spices before it made its way in to the Rum barrels in early 2013. Initial aroma’s of sweet rum, cocoa with hints of vanilla and orange peel.
The journey begins with flavors of ginger, brown sugar and spiced rum throughout with a drying black pepper finish.
The journey begins with flavors of ginger, brown sugar and spiced rum throughout with a drying black pepper finish.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottled. Hazy ambery brown colour with a small off-white head-. Aroma is sweet malts, some rhum, mild caramel, toffee, alcohol as well as some slight ripe fruity elements. Flavour does follow the aroma quite well, but also has some syrupy and mild datelike sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2024
at 19:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Deep, super dark brown coloured body with an almost black, very oily glow and a very tiny, super-fast-dying tan head that shows at about a centimetre tall, perhaps. Aroma of alcohol, pitted fruit, caramel, prunes, figs, anise, coriander seed, licorice, molasses and a ton of allspice towards the end. Medium to Full-bodied; Deep robust chocolate and pitted fruit flavours dominate with full prunes, raisins, figs, earth, nuts, toffee, caramelised sugars and a heavy hand of grapes and peated malt notes that have a very strong flavour, but leave the finish a douch bitter. Aftertaste shows the deeper, more astringent, stronger and deeper notes that hit with molasses, spice, chocolate and of course the pitted fruits which are the strongest by far and probably the sweetes. Overall, a deep and very pungent beer that hits all the right notes in terms of complexity, pungency, astringency, flavours and depth, but is a bit too potent, not enough subtlety or restraint shows through and this is good for the quantity/size bottle that was available and if this actually did mellow out in the short-ish time that I've had it, then I would not want to drink it fresh! I sampled this caged and corked bottle purchased from BevMo! in Manhattan Beach (Los Angeles), California on 23-February-2016 for US$17,49 sampled exactly four years after purchasing this one on 23-February-2020, a day before leaving for San Diego, California.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2020
at 03:49
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2020
at 14:06
7/10
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Tried
on 13 Sep 2018
at 08:09
7/10
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Tried
on 13 Sep 2018
at 08:08
7/10
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Tried
on 13 Sep 2018
at 08:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle - murky purplish brown - fuzzy pour with no head - nose of rum, alcohol, plum, oak, treacle - flavor is sweet, but not in the cloying way I feared implied by the nose - dark fruit, moderate spiciness - there is an understated funkiness to it that adds an appreciated depth - however, it is overall a bit muddy and indistinct - overall, it presents like a rum-barrel quad - it's greater than the sum of it's parts, but still only moderately enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2018
at 01:17
8.5/10
Nice! Spices, very woody, some rum. Plenty of barrel there. Boozy, thick, herbal.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Drinks & Gifts
on 13 Mar 2018
at 23:00
8/10
Tried
on 12 Dec 2017
at 17:15
9.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
Vom Fass (mit 12.5%) im Stone Brewing Berlin 2017-10 getrunken. Dieser braunroter Traum von ein Bier bringt eine gehöhrige Aromavielfalt durch den Einsatz von Ingwer, Orangenschalen und Kakaobohnen mit sich. Die Rumfassreifung bringt dazu noch neben einer moderaten Süße von Karamell auch noch wunderebare Eichennoten mit sich. Ein Traum von einem Bier.
Tried
on 21 Oct 2017
at 18:41