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Lost Abbey Cable Car (2007-2010)

 (RETIRED)
Score
10099
OVERALLStyle
Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

bottled
common

on tap
available

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RATINGS: 277   WEIGHTED AVG: 4.16   EST. CALORIES: 210   ABV: 7%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
You’ve made it to 547 Haight Street. This destination is more San Francisco than Rice A Roni, Chinatown, and Lombard Street combined. Welcome to Broadway for brewers everywhere. Everyone who is anyone has poured their kegs here. For the last 20 years, this place has launched careers, confirmed legacies, and since 1987 the only name you need to know is David Keene. Take a seat. Tip Strong. Nod appreciatively and don’t ask stupid questions. Welcome to Big Daddy’s House known to most simply as "The T-Room." Here the bartenders are fluent in English, German, Flemish, French, Waloon and Czech. But they’re most know for their American Lip Service. Watch it. The lady with the jet black hair behind the bar eats idiots for lunch. At 547 Haight Street, you won’t find any Cable Cars except for this one. But if you’re standing outside the Dutch Doors of the World Famous Toranado, you surly found the most interesting place in all San Francisco. Its’ about RESPECT. Dave you continue to have ours. Here’s to 20 more years of punishing livers everywhere. Cheers Gina, Jim, Tomme, Vince and the Brewers of Port Brewing

4.4
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 18/20
DedicatedToFun (36) - USA - FEB 12, 2012
one of the best beers ever. A sour IPA so delicious you can’t help but drop $40 a bottle at Tornado in SF. yum!

4.4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
mtjoseph (222) - Murderapolis, Minnesota, USA - FEB 10, 2012
2010 750ml shared at Toronado. Pours a light straw colored golden yellow with just a tad of haze. Wonderful subtle aroma of some barnyard funk, white wine grapes, hay, and some lemon citrus. Very nice. The flavors are perfectly balanced between some lemon rind citrus, wet oak, grapes, and some earthy grass. The acidity is perfectly balanced and is never too overwhelming. Sour, yet subtle and very well integrated. Well worth the $40 and a good start to seeing Pootie Tang later.

4.3
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 17/20
msante79 (1726) - Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA - JAN 20, 2012
Shared by an awesome BA at Toronado. Pours hazy golden with white head. Aromas of citrus, oak, grapes, and fair amount of tartness. Flavors of lemon, light wood, tartness and bit of white grapes. Nice amount of mouth puckering tartness. Nice mouthfeel and body. One of best sours I have ever had.

4.4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 18/20
brew3crew (99) - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - JAN 20, 2012
2009 vintage. Cloudy and hazy. Very funky in the smell. Taste follows. Very smooth funkiness that sticks around for a while after the finish

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
vyvvy (2798) - Florissant, Missouri, USA - JAN 16, 2012
Sampled at STLWill’s 30th b-day tasting. Pours yellow/gold with a small white head. The aroma has sweet/tarts, bugs, pale malt, sharp fruit, tart apples and green grapes. Medium/light body that’s on the crisp side and very refreshing. The flavor starts with white grapes, buggy funk and fruit loops (in a good way). The finish adds lots of peppery phenolic spice. Very nice beer.

3.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
phaleslu (3182) - Saint Louis, Missouri, USA - JAN 9, 2012
750 ml bottle sampled at STLWill’s 30th birthday party- thanks again! 2010 vintage. Pours a clear gold color with a small white ring for a head after the initial big fizz. Aroma of white grapes, lemon, dry grains, oak, and earth. Flavor of lemon, white grapes, oak, sweet malts, and dry cereal grains. Medium-bodied, with high carbonation and a sharp, tart mouthfeel. Very good overall, but there’s something almost restrained in it.

4.1
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
jbeatty (87) - Washington DC, USA - JAN 2, 2012
09 vintage, tasted 07/22/2011. Pours brilliant orange gold, thin effervescent head, looks great in the light. Tropical, sour fruits in the initial nose (think Starbursts), a solid layer of spicy funk and leather, some orange zest. Taste is very sour, with fruits coming first, then transitioning into some nice earthy funk, finishing dry with grape, oak notes, lasting tartness. Adequate body with nice carbonation, but the sourness cuts into drinkability for me. Wonderful and complex, one of the best American sours I’ve come across.

4.6
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 10/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
bigabe (166) - California, USA - DEC 24, 2011
This is a treat. One of the better sour ales I have had. Funky, sour nose I usually only associate with fine geuze. The taste is a bomb os acidic funk, sour cherries, and the mouth drying, almost tannic granny smith apple sourness at the end. Almost a perfectly executed sour ale.


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