The Lost Abbey

Microbrewery in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Port Brewing Company
Associated Venue: The Confessional by The Lost Abbey

Established in 2006

Contact
155 Mata Way #104, San Marcos, CA, 92069, United States
Description
We believe there are no boundaries to what we have set out to achieve and we know that those who seek out The Lost Abbey will be rewarded in the end.

The Lost Abbey and Port Brewing are both brands of Port Brewing Company. Both are produced by the same company, but targeted for different markets.
Our Belgian-inspired and premium beers are released under the Lost Abbey label. Either way, they’re all produced in the same brewery by the same staff.

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

Bottle @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours a hazy orange color with a long lasting slightly off-white head. Sweet malty and spicy aroma with hints of citrus. Smoth malty spicy bitter flavor. Has a spicy and slightly bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2007 at 05:46


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours a hazy golden colorwith a white head. Has a spicy, malty and yeasty aroma with some hints of citrus. Sweet malty yeasty and fruity citrus flavor. Spicy malty finish with a long bitter aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2007 at 15:40


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

Bottled 75 cl
Hazy nut brown color, small brownish head. Caramel, yeast and fresh vegetables in the nose. Quite alcoholic, feels even higher than 7 %. Caramelly-toffeish, some hops, loads of yeast there. This beer has lost its soul on the way, but drinkable it is.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2007 at 11:43


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

RBSG07. From 75 cL bottle. Pours deep amber to brown. Aroma of dried raisin, no sweetness. Flavour is sweet and alcohol with a nice raisin flavour. Finish is sweet going dry.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2007 at 16:34


5.8
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12

750 ml bottle. Maybe I had higher expectations than I should have had because I was trying a Lost Abbey ale, but this one left me wanting. Though this beer is not meant to be as complex as its Belgian cousins, it was mostly one-dimensional and that one dimension was not all that enjoyable. Cloudy yellow-golden body with a fizzy, small, white head. Aroma is grainy with a hint of lacquer-like yeast. The flavor is moderately sweet and harshly bitter with a light astringency on top of that. Lively carbonation and a medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2007 at 00:03


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

Bottle on 07/18/2009. Dark brown body with a medium frothy tan head. Light tart aroma with lots of molassas and caramel. Sweet, tart flavor, lots of spice, with some allspice and clove. Medium full body with moderately high carbonation. 7/4/8/3/16 - 3.8 06/28/2007: RBSG 2007 Grand Tasting. Hazy dark amber body with a small white head. Heavy spice aroma. Sweet caramel and molassas flavor with a heavy spice ending. 8/3/8/3/16 - 3.8

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2007 at 15:51


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

RBSG 2007 Grand Tasting. Hazy dark amber body with a small white head. Sweet caramel and molassas aroma. Sweet spiced molassas and caramel flavor.

Tried on 28 Jun 2007 at 15:29


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle: Poured a medium yellow color ale with a big foamy white head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma of medium sweet malt with a distinctive yeast presence. Taste is dominated by medium sweet malt with some bread and yeast notes and a slightly dry finish. Body is about average with some great carbonation. Interesting but lacking some character to make this truly interesting and I cannot see this beer aging well.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jun 2007 at 19:36


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

This was good. I wasn’t sure what it was while drinking it. Light, sweet hops in the aroma with citrus. Flavor has lemon, pine, and is fairly dry and moderately hopped. It is well hopped for the style, and seems to rely on hops rather than spices for flavor. Cloudy gold color. Thanks to Badgerben for sharing.

Tried on 22 Jun 2007 at 13:51


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750 ml cork and wire shared with JoeMcPhee at the Blind Tiger, I am so glad someone was around to help me with this piece of crap-ola. Actually the cork smelled really good. Poured with a small head that quickly fades away, which makes the beer look really still. Actually looks like slightly dark cola with similar light edges. Cannot see through the beer but it looks thin, a la soda. Aroma is strong with chocolate, molasses, burnt bitterness, and alcoholic prunes. As it warms up syrupy barleywine aspects come out as well. At first the aroma is cool and you think to yourself there is a lot of life in this beer. Then, its like, well, this aroma is strong but it’s crappy and all out of balance. Then you are like, damn... Taste is cherry alcohol and sweet brown sugar, pretty much a strong, boozy, sweet beer. Overall, could be cool but as keep drinking it, the thin ass body and the over the top flavors really start to suck. And by the end, I was just trying to get my money’s worth out of this damn bottle. This has all the pitfalls of American Quads, too much overpowering flavor with no substance behind it. Worst US Quad, EVER! You know, I don’t even like the label.

Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2007 at 23:31