Cuvee de Tomme
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
8.03
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Once upon a time it was the most award winning Pizza Port beer of all time. Now it has found a new home at The Lost Abbey.
A massive brown ale base that is made from four fermentable sugars including Malted Barley, Raisins, Candi Sugar and Sour Cherries, this beer is fully fermented before being placed in Bourbon barrels where the beer ages for one year with the Sour Cherries and the wild Brettanomyces yeast that we inoculate the barrels with.
One of the most complex and unique beers we make each year.
A massive brown ale base that is made from four fermentable sugars including Malted Barley, Raisins, Candi Sugar and Sour Cherries, this beer is fully fermented before being placed in Bourbon barrels where the beer ages for one year with the Sour Cherries and the wild Brettanomyces yeast that we inoculate the barrels with.
One of the most complex and unique beers we make each year.
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8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
version 2009.
amazing aroma of funk, sour cherries, and oak. Incredible flavor of sour cherries, sour funk, and that great wet hay you would get from a world class lambic. I’m super impressed with the beers ability to duplicate that amazing lambic sourness and funk. Incredible beer! in my opinion on par with a cantillon lamic.
amazing aroma of funk, sour cherries, and oak. Incredible flavor of sour cherries, sour funk, and that great wet hay you would get from a world class lambic. I’m super impressed with the beers ability to duplicate that amazing lambic sourness and funk. Incredible beer! in my opinion on par with a cantillon lamic.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at De Koffer, Groningen. Complex aroma is malty, sour red fruits, tart cherries, oak, caramel, vinegar, raisins, funky yeast. Flavour is quite sour with a touch of malty sweetness. Body is medium. Wow, wonderfully complex and strong sour flavour. A great Belgian-style Sour Ale!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Capone’s. 2015 vintage. Garnet colored pour. Small creamy cap. Earthy, tart aroma. Flavor is tart, dried dark fruit. Plum, sour cherry, stewed prunes. Soft and supple. Complex, yet extremely approachable. Yum!
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2023
at 17:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at Beavertown Extravaganza 2017 - London. Pours rich brownish red with a small, off-white head. Nice oaky character, tangy berries, some raspberry, old leather, mellow acidity. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Tart finish, fairly clean. Solid.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2022
at 23:46
8/10
Tried
on 19 Jul 2022
at 23:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
19th January 2022, taster in The Church, San Diego. Came in a lovely glass. One of three Barrel Aged beers they had on from Lost Abbey, I had them all. Dark and lovely, cherries, raisins and sweetness abound in this cracking beer.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2022
at 18:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Snallygaster. Pours dark brown. Funk, biscuit, blackberry, prune, malt vinegar, red grape, little earthy. Medium body. Very nice.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2021
at 13:53
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Bottle) Deep dark ruby colour (port wine) with brief bubbly head. Fruity, sourish nose with balsamic vinegar, cherries, prunes, chocolate, vanilla, oak wood and red grapes. Fruity, tart taste with notes of sour cherries, balsamic vinegar, red apples, vanilla, oak wood, red fruit, nuts, chocolate and a dry and tart finish. Alcohol completely overshadowed by tartness and cherries. Medium body, dry. Excellent beer with a generous tartness and lots of sour fruit and wood. Like Rodenbach on steroids. Impressive beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2020
at 18:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Sample, brown bottle, gift from a stranger, during Dark Lord Day, trip to Dark Lord Day with Luc Bourbonnière, savoured on May 18, 2019; eye: dirty brown, cloudy, no effervescence, no head, no lacing; nose: acidity, bitterness, musk, wild yeasts, fig, red wine, light tannin; acidity, bitterness, musk, wild yeasts, fig, red wine, light tannin, light astringency, vinous finale with presence of fig, full-bodied, below average carbonation, mildly sweet, slick texture; overall: quite good
FRANÇAIS
Échantillon, bouteille brune, cadeau d'un étranger, durant Dark Lord Day, voyage à Dark Lord Day avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 18 mai 2019; œil : brun sale, trouble, pas d'effervescence, pas de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : acidité, aigreur, musc, levures sauvages, figue, vin rouge, léger tanin; bouche : acidité, aigreur, musc, levures sauvages, figue, vin rouge, léger tanin, légère astringence, finale vineuse avec présence de figue, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien bon
FRANÇAIS
Échantillon, bouteille brune, cadeau d'un étranger, durant Dark Lord Day, voyage à Dark Lord Day avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 18 mai 2019; œil : brun sale, trouble, pas d'effervescence, pas de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : acidité, aigreur, musc, levures sauvages, figue, vin rouge, léger tanin; bouche : acidité, aigreur, musc, levures sauvages, figue, vin rouge, léger tanin, légère astringence, finale vineuse avec présence de figue, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien bon
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2020
at 21:17
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Keg at the Beavertown Extravaganza, day two, 09/09/2017. A rich reddy mahogany brown coloured pour with a beige head. Aroma is some spicy vinegar, raisin, red berries, tart. Flavour is composed of rich cakey malts, spicy tart notes, dried fruits. Palate is ssemi sweet and tart, prickly carbonation. Good shit.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2020
at 18:54