Lost Abbey Saints Devotion 08

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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750 mL bottle, corked & caged, from the 2010 saints membership, sampled Sept 2011: slitly hazed, orange gold...with a perfectly persistent ivory cream that leaves a thick lace. Strawberry, sweet butterscotch and honey blossom aroma that has slightly funky undertones with freshly cut hay and touches of horse blanket. Perfectly carbonated, tingling the lips and lively through to the back of my mouth...the Brett begins to come out in the flavor very quickly, lighty acidic and sour...just short of making your lips pucker. Truly a world class effort, thank you! I could drink one of these every day!

hazy gold, thin white head with heavy lacing. Heavy cedar nose, light milk and grains. Heavy cedar and pineapple, toast, light milk, very pleasant. High carbonation, but offsetting but nice overall.

Bottle shared by BigGirlPanties. Pours clear gold with a medium, frothy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is heavy phenols, light spicy hops and fruits, straw and meal malt. Flavor is phenols, earthy and barnyard, light hops and bitterness, and very dry finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.

Bottle shared by biggirlpanties: pours a clear deep golden with a spotty-lacing white head. Has a mostly dry earthy nose with some grassy hay and funk notes. Starts with some mild sweetness and mild lemongrass tartness with dry earthy funk and horseblanket notes before a drier earthy bitter finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy gold with average, fizzy white head; short retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is oranges, biscuit and straw malt, yeast, floral hops, and some plastic bandage. Flavor is balanced malt and fruit esters with faint plastic undertones; dry, lightly bitter finish. Light/medium body,medium carbonation, and low warmth.

Poured at Lost Abbey dinner a couple years ago. Light carbonation, minimal hops. Flavor and body were weak as well. Brett was barely detectable. Alright, original is much better.

On tap for a Port/Lost Abbey night at Brouwer’s. Golden apricot color - opaque, with a tiny head. Nice aroma - honey wheat, and sweet citrus - but the flavor brings it off. *Super* dry - the brett seems to have dried it to the bone -- some unbaked (yeasty) rosemary bread and dusty orange, but lacking in complexity and far too dry.

Thanks to theEpeest. Pours hazy golden with wispy white head. Nice citrus orange peel, light spice, brett funk cuts beligan spice thing that regular devotion has going on. Not very sour, which is nice, with grain and spice action in taste. Glad i got to try.

26th May 2009
Cloudy orange beer. Just a very thin white head. Soft palate tending to slightly dry. Comes over as a Saison, aromatic and fruity but also quite funky. Sourish and almost creamy finish and quite a bitter aftertaste. A bit different!

750 ml poured by drewbeerme or pantanap. Thanks! Pours a rich golden hazy hue, bright white frothy head laces well, stays as a thicker ring, with some good haze. Aromas are rich deep brett moving into fruity esters, some lemon and apple, with dry horseblanket, hay, and dust. Fruity. Initial is lighter bodied with a huge brett influence, dry dusty, hay, and horseblanket, dry funky brett hits some cheesiness and moves into some bitterness it’s so intense. Middle moves into some bread, pale malts, back into fruit, really dry bretty finish. I was really a fan of this, the brett really works it’s way into the base Devotion, enveloping with great funk, fruity esters, dry, some wet old soft cheese. Quality, with a light spritzy body and fairly complex experience.