Cuvee de Tomme
(has 10 batches)
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
8.02
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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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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Vintage 2009. Hazy reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, berries, alcohol and moderate sour - vinegar. Flavor is quite sweet, rather acidic and rather bitter. Dry, rather acidic and rather bitter finish. 270112
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2012
at 04:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap @ Avery, doing the 10th Annual Boulder Strong Ale Festival. Pours hazy brown with a offwhite head. Aroma is sour winelike with malt, oak, cherries, vanilla, chocolate. Taste is sour cherries, malt, winelike, tart cherries, oaky, cinnamon, notes of chocolate. Thin to medium body, soft carbonation, lasting tart sour finish. Fantastic. 090312
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Mar 2012
at 20:55
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ Too many Geuze’s - only one toilet , Ulfborg 2012 - Day 1. 2009 Vintage. Brown color with a small beige head that quickly disappears. The aroma is lovely, sweet malty, raisins, oak, bourbon,sour cherries, vinous, some brettiness. Taste is moderate sour, very rich vinous flavor, vanilla, ripe fruit, caramel, cherries, oak wood. Like a sour/Barley Wine hybrid. Easily the best Us sour of the night. Lovely stuf.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2012
at 02:49
8.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle @ FOneFan. Hazy brown/dark amber/red with tiny beige head. Aroma is vinegar, malt, fruit and dried fruits. Flavour is malt, vinegar, vinous, little vanilla, dried fruits, brett, little acetone, little toffee, little tart and oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2012
at 09:00
8.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Small head with short duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are brett, caramel, nuts, fruits, wood and malt. Nice and sour. Great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2012
at 04:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from a trade with cbkschubert. Aromas of sour cherries, oak and brett. Sour cherry flavor with some woodiness and brett funkiness. Quite acetic. Medium body with average carbonation. Thanks Craig!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2011
at 10:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme - 2009. Bottle looks good. Beer in the glass dark brown, small head. Sourish-dry aroma. Starts intense sour, almost aggressiv. Fruity notes of berries in the background. Finish a bit less sour, more fruity, a bit earthy. Too intense for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2011
at 13:07
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, as The Lost Abbey Cuvée de Tomme, kindly shared by gunnar. Dark ruby colour, large beige head. Unusual and very complex aroma, oaky and vinous notes, sour cherries and farmhouse. Sour flavour but not extreme, the cherries are there but not totally dominant, also oaky notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2011
at 13:20
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sample @ SBWF on September 29. Pours reddish brown with a small white head. Smell is very complex with vinegar, cherries and dried tropical fruits. Taste is sour with notes of burnt sugar and sour cherries. Very complex taste with lots going on. A great sour beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cuvee de Tomme on 22 Dec 2013 at 00:01 - Score: 9. Original review text: Damn sour, damn fruity and damn good
Tried
on 30 Sep 2011
at 15:03
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ home, courtesy of daknole. I really appreciate it, Dak! Deep purple/brown appearance with no head. Moderately sour, dark fruity, blackberry, plum, dark raspberry, cherry, tart aroma. Tart dark cherry/blackberry/plum fruity, moderately sour, slightly spicy, a bit sugary, slightly boozy, acetic flavor with a dry, vinous finish. Acidic, dark fruity aftertaste. Pretty strong but quite tasty brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2011
at 21:17