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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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Vestergaard, Lukasmh and Rasmusott. Thanks so much guys! Pours thick muddy reddish brown with a small fizzy white head. Aromas of dark fruits; raisins, prunes, dates. Sour cherries. Vanilla, fudge, oak, tannins, dark malt, caramel, filled chocolates, lactic, funk. Taste has sour cherries, sweet bourbon, tannins, vinous notes, red grapes, raisins, oak, lactic tartness, subtle barnyardy notes, dark malt, vinegary. Damn complex and delicious!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
8/10
Troszke octu, ale takiego sympatycznego, duzo owockow, spora kwasnosc, tez jakies mile migdalowe, rodzynkowe slodkawe klimaty... mrau! Tnx Pan Lukasz :)
Tried
from Bottle
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 02 Oct 2019
at 16:49
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, thanks Jon. Lots of booze, lots of raisins, light fruitiness, bourbon. Full on in the mouth, fruit, Xmas cake. Lots of booze. Marzipan. Dark fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle from DeBierkonig, Amsterdam, in the garden with Dad, 8th September 19. Pours a dirty brown red colour. Aroma is tart fruit, barrel, wood and bourbon, some cherry. Taste is tart cherry, bourbon, vanilla, wood, vinous, slight sweet, but overall acidic and tart, almost too much. Pretty good and complex, but I have better beers in this category at this ABV
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2019
at 17:11
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
2008 bottle from Schroppfy, thanks! Reddish dark brown color. Oak, malt, dark chocolate and cherries in the aroma. Odd mix of tartness, dark chocolate, the finest of cherry bonbons, licorice, oak and cherry liquor in the flavor. Very complex, strong and tart. Not a sign of the promised 11% ABV, excpt in the warming finish, but strong and powerful. And deceptively drinkable. World class beer. 2009 bottle, tasted @ UDRB, Oirschot. Malt, toffee and cherry in the aroma. Brett, lemon, chocolate and cherry in the flavor. Once again not a sign of the 11% alcohol. Lemon, cherry an brett in the aftertaste. Bitter almonds. lovely!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 16:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured from a 375 ml bottle from what I believe is 2014. Aroma is a balanced blend of dark fruits and malt notes. Rich, dark caramel and toffee with lighter chocolate and toast notes. Loads of cherry, plum, raisin and prunes. Light alcohol notes and faint bourbon and oak. Pours brown with a small, thin, tan head that recedes quickly and disappears. No lacing and small legs. Flavor is rather acidic but only moderately sharp with lots of dark fruit notes. Loads of cherries and raisins with lighter cassis, plum and prune notes. Medium caramel and toffee notes with lighter chocolate and toast. Light oak and bourbon with a bit of alcohol in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium low carbonation. Low, but present astringency and low, but present alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer but these higher abv dark sours aren't really my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2019
at 05:17
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
hazy reddish Brown colour, some beige-ish head; aroma of sour cherry juice, raisins, woody notes, balsamic acid, some cocoa powder, barnyard and slight acetone; taste of citric acid, balsamic acid, sour cherry juice, some bitterness, dry red wine notes/tannines and some Wood; extraordinary sour beer; many thnaks for sharing Chris!
Tried
on 17 May 2019
at 16:51
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
0.375l bottle thanks to Cristobal37. Murky dark ruby body with practically no head. Huge ripe sour cherry notes in the aroma with some horse blanket, balsamic vinegar, chocolate, oak and raisins. Taste of balsamic vinegar, sour cherry, toast, oak, lemon juice and even some caramel. Very sour, but very complex too. Awesome.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2019
at 16:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at H& P Sour, Wild, and Fruited Fest 4-23-16 Rerate: prev at 4.1
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Mar 2019
at 00:21
5/10
Tried
on 07 Feb 2019
at 14:00