Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Cuvee de Tomme from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Same beer as the Aug. 25th 2007 Barrel Tasting event except this time it has been in a bottle for a while. Pours hazy brown copper with thin tan head. It has a big fruity complex aroma with a layer of tartness, cherries, cherries and more cherries. I also get barrel wood notes and it is smelling rich and inviting. As big a flavor as the nose led onto, wow. Lots of cherries that quickly become tart and leaning up against a wood barrel (yes, a cherry leaning on a barrel, that’s what it tastes like. How can my taste buds be wrong?). This is bold in flavor with the tartness building and building into the finish. Nice refreshing brew bringing up sweet fruity cherries turning tart and then there’s an undercurrent of a wood note that sneaks in every so often. Ends with lingering cherry fruitiness and tartness. It seems much more tart than when I tasted straight from the barrel last year at the Barrel Tasting event.
Tasted at Lost Abbey’s 1st Annual Barrel Tasting (Aug. 25, 2007) pours like a port wine or coffee with a reddish tint. The aroma is big consisting of oak, green grapes, raisins, dates, a little bit of hay and new freshly wetted burlap. The flavor stacked up much the same way as the aroma. The fruitiness is rich, somewhat sweet and inviting with green grapes, plums, dates, raisins and hints of fresh boysenberries. Well, sort of boysenberry-ish. The fruit notes were melded nicely together making them tough to discern yet they were also punchy in their evenness. To round out the flavor mellow notes of oak and vanilla mix effortlessly with the fruit.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Devotion from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma of grassy hop, peach, apricot, pale malt, yeast. Honey? Slightly hazy orange tinged gold color with a decent white head that laced just a little. Medium body with thin, but creamy, carbonation. The flavor is astringent (not exactly a flavor, but ...) with peppery spice, floral hop, and pale and/or bready malt. The finish is also a bit astringent, decently dry, and has a floral/bitter hop aspect. It’s really, really, a pleasure.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Devotion from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tasted from a 0.750L bottle at the Lost Abbey 1st Annual Barrel Aged Beer tasting.
Pours a hazy yellow-ish orange with bright white head. The aroma is sort of sugary sweet with hints of spice and maybe honey. The taste is sweet, tart and dry. I get sweet malts with hints of wheat as well as tart tones of lemon and a hint of astringency. At times it ends sweet and others it seems to end dry or still others mildly tart. There’s some yeastiness too.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Judgment Day from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A murky red-brown beer with a thin rim of head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of over ripe fruits and prunes. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, prunes, and over ripe fruit, leading to a dry and slightly woody finish.
bb (18428) reviewed Devotion from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Floral, light citrus, malt aroma. Floral, citrus, light spice flavor with backing malt. Lingering light hoppy bitterness with some floral tones. Medium body. Very drinkable. Dry finish.
bb (18428) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft. Amber beer with an off-white head. Tart, fruity aroma. Peachy fruit, very tart flavor with some oak. Lingering oak and tartness with lots of woodiness and almost some tar. Nice. Slightly harsher woodsy tartness at end.
bb (18428) reviewed 10 Commandments from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Very dark brown beer with slight reddish highlights and a low off-white head. Chocolate, roasty, yeasty, fig/raisin aroma. Dark fruit, chocolate, slight roast flavor with earthy yeast. Hides alcohol well. Medium body. Slight tartness.
JK (8181) reviewed Lost and Found from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A very good beer that I probably don’t appreciate enough because Pannepot Reserva preceded it. There is sweet malt in the aroma. Opaque brown appearance. Flavor has some fruit, including prunes and apple, as well as sweet malt. A thick beer, and very good in or out of its style.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Lost and Found from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a deep cloudy brown color ale with a big foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry fruits and candi sugar is quite enjoyable. Taste is also dominated by some sweet malt with candi sugar and some notes of dry figs and raisins are also noticeable. Body is quite full with some good carbonation and no alcohol was discernable. I thought this was well done overall but lacked some complexities to take it to a greater level.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Devotion from The Lost Abbey 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I think I about finished a bottle of this to myself at ABF on 6/16/07
Well, well, well, no one thinks much of it, eh?? I don’t know what to say. It’s very clean, and as I much appreciate, not chalk full of crude esters and phenols. What’s there is integrated with the abundant hoppiness that ranges from a sweet grassiness, to a zesty herbal quality, even throwing in some light citrus (tangerine, lemon). Pineapple, peach and apricot esters are about the strongest of the Belgian notes, and quite moderate at that (I thought). The malt evokes notions of biscuits, for sure, with almost a chewy, vanilla-wheat-like flavor, no doubt emanating from the careful malting and unfiltered nature. Honey grows lightly in strength, with warming, but the hops continue to balance all the way through.
For being a tri-culture of yeast, it, surprisingly, is very light on the Belgian yeast character. Though it’s obviously not intended to be a funky, exotic, Belgian yeast bomb. It remains clean and lightly sweet, very dainty, with proper attenuation, especially given how young it is. Carbonation is quite strong right now, but will settle down, and even at its current level, it hardly is problematic. I found neither flaw, nor alcohol. Didnt find the plastic, graininess or popcorn.
Very intense, white head, with strong lacing and a lemon-lime, brassy-colored body.