Lost Abbey Sinners 08

Formerly brewed at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle shared by BA Barleywinebrewer..Thanks Bill! Pours burnished, dark brown, with tinges of ruby edging and almost opaque. A beige head of one inch faded quickly, with a few errant dots of lacework. Aromatics lead off with earth-dusted sour cherries, spice, and leather-wrapped wood. Hints of Rosemary, Thyme, and mint add a wonderfull complexity. Some firm acidity developes quickly, as well as bits of bitter chocolate, vanilla, and oaky tannins. A wine-like vineousity pulls through in the finish. Medium bodied, sharp on the pallet, and crisp. Slightly creamy as well. Cherry pits, dusty boards, peppery spice, and balsamic start the pallet. An herbal, earthy quality steps forward. Peppermint, Rosemary, Thyme, and white pepper. Ripe malt and dark fruit follow though, with lingering acidity. Finishes with herb infused balsamic, burnt leather, tart cherries, earth-covered wood, and a lingering vineousity. Wowza, great beer. It tastes like a blend of Cuvee de Tomme and 10 Commandments. Regardless, the pedigree screams Judgement day.

From bottle at Sour & Bitter 2012. It pours very dark brown, with a decent beige head. The nose is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, funk, toffee, dark fruit, balsamic vinegar, almond, toasted coconut and vanilla. The taste is lemon, grapefruit, Granny Smith apple, dark fruit, moderate acidity, some underlying roasted malt and charcoal flavours and balsamic vinegar. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Very well balanced. This is not usually my favourite sour style, but this one was great!

Bottle sample at Sour&Bitter Copenhagen 2012. Bottle looks awesome. Beer in the glass very dark, almost black, small head. Sour-fruity aroma, like plum. Starts mild sour, fruity-dry, but then more and more dry, also more sour. Dusty-dry. Nevertheless quite well balanced. Sourish finish. Good!

Bottle at Sour & Bitter. Pours brown with a creamy tan head. The aroma is chocolate, dark ripe fruits and light acid. The flavour is lots of dark fruit, acid, oak and raisins. Nice one!

Pours brown with a tiny beige head. Aroma is balsamic, sweet oak, flemish, dark nuances like figs, ripe grapes and olives. weak lacto acid and some sweeter notes behind. Taste is pretty flemish, lots of balsamic, dark oak, salt water, grapefruit, black olives, ripe grapes, red wine, brett, lacto acid, vinegar leading to a dry spicy end.

Sour & Bitter Festival CPH 2012. Dark brown with a small off-white head. Funky aroma along with dark dried fruit and chocolate and a vineous touch of alcohol. Chocolate and dark fruit flavour. Very tart with a hint of vinegar.

Bottled. BRown coloured. LIght brown head. Sourness, tart, berries, vinegar, oak in the aroma. Flavour of Tart, oak, wood, berries, sourness, barnyard, brett. Medium to full bodied. Ends quite sour, notes of berries and tart. Nice.

Flaske: desværre over sin prime og på vej ned. Kan godt se hvorfor den tidligere har scoret så godt. Brun med et rødligt anstrøg uden skumhoved. Masser af balsamico i duften, virkelig lækker. Desværre lever smagen ikke op til det, lidt tynd eftersmag. Past its prime.

On tap at S&B. This ale is drinking fantastic now. Clear reddish brown pour with a small white head. Vinegar and sour aromas. Sour cherries, vinegar, oak, a bit of caramel malt. It actually taste very much like a sour bruin. Simply delicious......

Bottle @ sour bitter. Pours murky reddish brown. Aroma: syrupy, brown sugar, herbal, cherry stone, faint liquorice, sweet vinegar, dusty,brett, almost like a muted oude bruin, dusty, tea, sweet tobacco, butterscotch, Taste: low carbonation, tart, nice acidity, lemon, earthy, Brett, sour green apples, sweet vinegar, very dry, woody, sweet lemon, funk, brett, lemon peel, somm fruity bitterness, sour cherries,

Bottle @ S&B. Dark brown pour, small head. Aroma is awesome! A blend of tobacco, chrerries, chocolate, oak barrel, some caramel, a bit of brett presence, slightly lactic. Taste is fairly brett forward, barnyard, some lactic sourness, sour cherries, not much sweetness aside from a hint of caramel and cherry. Slightly thin carbonation and body. But a good fucken beer anywhore.