Inferno Ale
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.33
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Your roommate is an axe murderer. Eerily, he’s not threatening. How can he be? The Fallen Angel owns your body, mind and soul. As such, no one can take your life. It’s already been taken. Or was it given? Neither matters. Did you seriously think you were living a virtuous life? At least Satan serves beer in Hell. He brews it himself right there in that flame stoked cauldron. Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry and simply labeled Inferno.
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superspak (10160) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375 ml bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Cork shot off hard into my hand upon uncaging. Took a while to fully pour. Pours hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 3 finger dense and rocky off white head with insane retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a large amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, orange, pear, apple, white grape, light banana, pepper, clove, wheat, honey, biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, pale malt, and earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, pear, apple, white grape, light banana, pepper, clove, wheat, honey, biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Good amount of earthy/peppery yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange, pear, apple, grape, pepper, clove, wheat, honey, biscuit, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, pale malt, and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. High carbonation and medium bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and fairly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic Belgian strong pale ale style. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, pale malt, and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and crisp to sip on for the big ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
TET (6603) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A bottle is opened with a huge bang. A beer is fuzzy, beuatiful light yellow colour, a head is huge and white. Aroma has flowers, fresh fruitness, oranges, some raspberries, spicyness and pepper. Taste is strongly spicy, fruits, also lots of citrusfruits and some sourness, bitterness in the end. Medium bodied, easy to drink. The great beer, complex, aromatic fruitness and harsh spicyness.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours pale amber, nose is grapfeuit, caramel, taste is fruity, sweet, rich.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottled 9/2013, drunk 2/2015.
Oddly enough, the cork shot off as soon as the cage was loosened, but then the beer didn’t gush. Still resulted in a massive, thick, foamy white head that was slow to dissipate. Light blond/golden body is full of tight bubbles coarsing upwards.
Massively fruity esters in the nose (yellow fruits, strawberries, kiwi, pineapple....) give way to a bit of herbal hoppiness and a light dusting of white pepper and dry alcohol notes. A touch of bread-like maltiness can be discerned, but mostly this thing is just full-on fruity esters. Having had this a long time ago, probably closer to 2006 or so, I remember the nose being significantly less estery and much more herbal/peppery. I’m fairly certain this bottle sat warm/hot for too long, as there is dried beer below the cork where it has escaped obviously due to a strong refermentation. Fortunately, tons of esterification is the only downside of this and the beer still seems in good shape.
The flavor profile again speaks to the heavy fruitiness, with some definite alcohol undertones. Body is medium, sweetness is low and it reminds me a lot of Allagash Tripel. Very drinkable, quenching dryness and even some herbal/grassy hops thrown in for good measure. A delicious Belgian ale that seems much more Belgian than it does American. So that is nice.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from some beer shop at some point in time over the last year! Poured a clear medium amber with a bubbly broken white head. The aroma is rich citrus yeast. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a rich yeast, light fruit, alcoholic bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
This beer, after the cork nearly dented the ceiling from the velocity of it’s eruption after merely removing the cage, pours a hazy orange-amber color with a thick lively white head that evaporates gradually. Small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of fruity yeast, wheat and herbs. Medium-bodied with flavors of floral yeast, citrus and malt. The finish is fruity with an herbal yeast aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Lilja (4691) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Flaska ölföreningen 2014. Smak och doft av citron, citrus, apelsin, gräs, örter, syrliga äpplen, belgisk jäst, grapefrukt. Lagom sötma, fina kryddor, bra avslutande beska. Riktigt gott!
Sledutah (12313) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle picked up at Bevmo
Hazy straw yellow with a big white head and lots of sticky lacing. Aroma is spices, esters and black pepper. Taste is full of spices and lemon
Good
Vignale (8386) reviewed Inferno Ale from The Lost Abbey 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flaska från Craftbeer. Gyllengult, mycket kolsyra och högt skum. Småbullig i munnen, riktigt kryddig och även lite fruktig, alkholvärme, torr trots söta smaker. Anis/fänkål, apelsinsaft, syltade apelsinskal, passionsfrukt. maffig och mycket kryddig men trots det perfekt balanserad och inte för mycket. Riktigt häftig.