8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

(Bottle, thanks to Håkan) Hazy brown colour with brief foamy head. Malty, vinous nose with caramel, dried fruit, figs, raisins, prunes, peaches, oak wood, bourbon, brown sugar and vanilla. Malty, fruity, vinous taste with notes of caramel, dried fruit, figs, prunes, raisins, bourbon, vanilla, oak wood, treacle, dark rum, chocolate and a mild spicy bitterness in a vinous and warming finish. Full body, quite sweet. Rich, warming and vinous. Really tasty. Great beer.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Refrigerated 12.7 brown bottle poured into a glass. Dark with with small beige head. Aroma is caramel, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is bourbon, caramel, some oak, and booze as it warms.

9

Lightly carbed, some floaters going on. Super dark brown. Big bourbon smell with some black tea. Smooth mouthfeel. Lots of herbal flavours, tea, some spicy, very oaky bourbon. Can't detect a lot of peach, only some soft fruityness. Complex, heavy, great!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

The eleventh 'Track' beer by this famed Californian craft beer powerhouse (and a worthy eight thousandth tick for me), a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout enriched with peach and black tea and refermented with Brettanomyces claussennii (the original Brett), a concept apparently inspired by a cocktail designed by a certain Matt Vandenberghe ('Vern' for friends), an influential Seattle-based beer entrepreneur with Belgian roots. Medium sized, slightly irregular, greyish beige, uneven-bubbled head, very stable around the edge and as a thin greyish veil in the middle; very dark chocolate brown robe, almost black but still with visible ruby red hue, hazy. Intense and complex bouquet of nougat, Marmite, chocolate cake dough, molasses, strong bourbon, indeed very recognizable black tea, praliné, brown rum, wet leather (the Brett effect I guess), moist oak wood, mocha ice cream, liquorish, wood glue, dry beef stock, dried mushrooms, peach kernels or dried peaches more than actual sweet peach flesh, dry clay, unsugared dates, soy sauce. Densely sweet onset but not overly so (in fact remaining relatively restrained), complex from the start with Marmite- and dried porcini-like umami impressions linked to dried dates and prunes, medium fizz but refined and fit for this kind of hefty 'bières de dégustation', very full to even syrupy mouthfeel. Thick layers of molasses-, toffee- and black chocolate-like malts glide heavily over the tongue, leaving behind a trail of intense bittersweetness with still lingering umami aspects (yet in a refined, reduced sauce-like way) and a volatile and thin presence of peachy sweetness - fading as quickly as it came, overruled by a herbal black tea flavour, enhanced by a herbal and spicy hop bitterish note. The finish is dominated by heavy and thick malt bittersweetness, this spicy black tea element, drying wood tannins and, very forwarded in the end, a very strong bourbon part, adding very outspoken bourbon flavour (with a bittersweetness matching the malt profile) as well as considerable alcohol heat that keeps smouldering in the throat for quite a while. Not one for the faint-hearted: as intense as many other of these heavy Lost Abbey beers, but made less accessible by that black tea element, which in combination with the beer, the barrels and the Brett takes on a whole new, herbal-umami-like dimension reminiscent of Marmite and other such 'bouillons'. The wood is very present as well, while the peaches have faded to only the faintest echo and fail to bring any soothing sweet fruitiness or refreshment to this thick, heavy, stern and potent beer. I guess I was expecting a tad more enlightening fruit frivolity, so to speak, but I did get another top notch Lost Abbey sipper, every bit as complex and intense as its predecessors (though I had only a few of those). A great, but demanding sipper, fit for a chilly December evening with the end of a beer-fuelled decade approaching quickly.

8

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

375ml bottle. Sweet, heavy with bourbon notes, vanilla, buttery notes, hints of spices and tea. Quite smooth and a bit boozy but quite tasty bourbon strong ale.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours clear mahogany, small beige head, some lacing. Aroma is bourbon, toffee, tea. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter. Medium body

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

darker brown colour, minimal beige-ish head (rather some lacing than a real head); aroma and taste of intensive bourbon, some vanilla, cocoa, walnut liqueur and caramel notes; good one but not among the best Lost Abbey beers I've tasted

8

From backlog. Taster at SDBW Pier event. Brown with offwhite head. Malts, fruits, vanilla, bourbon, Nice!

8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Brown with an off white head - Wood, vanilla, borboun aroma - Dark malt body, some dark fruity tones with a huge bourbon flavour with wood and vanilla - Malt, fruity vanilla, wood and bourbon goes into a long finish - This was real good

9

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