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8.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

750ml bottle from Tavour, 2013 vintage. Rating #6800! Pours out a deep brown, opaque, small foamy head subsides to ring around the glass. Aroma is raisins, fruitcake, cherries, honey. Sweet and rich. Taste matches the smell, sweet, raisins, figs, a big goiey morning sweet roll of a beer. Not that boozy. Thick bodied. Not too much of a Belgian presence. Really superb!

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Figgy, rich, with lots of alcohol, soft molasses, sweet sugars, beautiful soft fruits. Yum.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pici, nem túl tartós hab, fekete szín. Csokis, kakaós, aszalt gyümölcsös illat, némi mézes beütéssel. Csokis, kávés, kakaós, mézes ízek, aszalt gyümölcsös aromákkal. A rozmaringot nem igazán érzem benne. Testes, enyhén szénsavas, enyhén keserű és egy hajszálnyit édeskés. Finom, jó arányokkal rendelkező sör.

10

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10

Aus der Flasche (Vintage 2014) am 2016-04 getrunken. Ein vollkommen durchgereiftes Quadruple was mit Rosinen gebrauct wurde. In den 2 Jahren Flaschreifung hat sich der Zucker komplett zu eine komplexen Malztrunk umgewandelt. Es kommen nebenbei noch Backplfaumennoten und eine leichte Säure daher. Das Ding wirkt wie ein beim Whisky ein alter durchgereiftes Sherrymonster. Warten und reifen lohnt sich. Ein klares Top10 Bier!

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

One of Lost Abbey's variations on the old Belgian abbey beer theme, a quadrupel this time, apparently enriched with raisins and refermented with Brettanomyces; 75 cl bottle at Uncle Babe's in Ghent. Thick, pale beige, bubbly and coarse but more or less stable head, yet dissolving into practically nothing in the end; very dark bronze-burgundy robe, almost blackish in general appearance but translucent. Aroma of cola, plums soaked in rum, raisin bread, toffee, ketjap, reduced gravy, soy sauce even, honey, dry wood, brown rum and bourbon, treacle, marmalade. Very sweet onset, bit cloying in fact, cola- and pear syrup-like, raisins, marmalade accent matched with a light gravy- or ketjap-tinged umami factor; thick toffeeish malt body with cashew nut-like edges, still firmly drenched in pear syrup sweetness but drier in the end, when cinnamon- and dried orange peel-like spicy notes pop up alongside a long, warming, rum-like alcohol effect - yet the whole thing remains very sweet. Too sweet for me personally, and too sweet even for a quad - though clearly this beer has a ton of flavours buried underneath this syrupy sweetness and boast a very full, rounded body, more so even than is standard in Belgian quadrupels. Very interesting beer, unusual for a quad, but to me personally, far from Lost Abbey's best, though admittedly the age of this bottle must have something to do with that - should retry this in younger condition.

5.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

From Sept 2008

This pours a cloudy brown with reddish hues and a very small head of foam that shrinks to just a ring around the glass almost immediately. When I popped the cork, it was the lightest sounding "pop" I've ever heard from a corked bottle.

The smell has all sorts of goodies going on. Dark fruit like plum, raisins, and some spices greet my nose buds.

The taste has all that fruit in spades with some toffee and molasses and when I swish the beer in my mouth, I get some tartness and a bit of funk and yeast. There's some spice here as well and as the label says it's Rosemary, I'm going with that. ;^) There's also a noticeable alcohol kick here as it's quite warming during and after the swallow.

The mouthfeel is a very light medium and the carbonation is so low it's almost nonexistant. That could be improved upon as it reminds of drinking wine not beer!

Bottom line: I like the flavours here, kind of reminds me of an Oud Bruin, but the lack of carbonation and the strong presence of alcohol limit the drinkability for me.