Lost Abbey Devotion

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Belgian Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Bottled. Cloudy golden color, short head. Aroma of fresh flowery hops. Bit fruity, some guniper. Quite bitter taste, with some flowery spicy touch. Average.

Pours a hazy amber with a frothy beige head. Aroma is medium sweet with a good deal of yeast, light spice and orange. Flavor is yeast, orange peel, apple, grassy malt and light hay. Fairly dry and hoppy finish. Light to medium bodied.

Bottled. The aroma is very fruity-yeasty with apples, pineapple, melon, aprikots. hazy, yellow coloured with a lasting, off-white head. The taste is a bit sweet, fruity and yeasty. Well bodied beer. Very enjoyable.

Pours a hazy golden brown with a fluffy persistent head. Fruity aroma, apples, lemon, and some breadiness with a touch of spice. Starts off lightly sweet malt and lightly tart citrus. Fades quickly into a long finish of bitter hops and musty yeast. Light body, lively carbonation. Did not enjoy it overall as I felt the bitterness did not mesh well with the other flavors and tended to dominate them. Not what I was expecting from a Belgian style ale.

Bottle purchased at Archers in Chicago. Pours amber with a fruity aroma. Very good. Tastes a little like a sour ale.

Cloudy, hazy and shimmering with a fog of blanched hay and straw while a snowstorm of dregs floats contently within her embrace. On a side note, I love good dregs. A thin film tops her off while tiny bubbles cling desperately to the sides of my glass, making way for a heavenly aroma. Fresh lemon juice, lemon bread or muffins, soft and moist with a sprinkling of poppy seeds. Continuing the delightfully zesty and invigorating lemon approach is ice-cold, homemade lemon sorbet while adding meat to her light palate are soft white breads, kneading dough, and hay. I am wholly intrigued now. Our first meeting of the lips is thin with an electrical zap of sour lemon juice squeezed on top of creamy, crisp, refreshing lemon sorbet. While the nose was sweeter, her palate has definitely turned to the tart side while dry earth, hay, straw, and leather proceeds to dry my palate. Each subsequent quaff is clean, crisp, and highly refreshing while tart sour lemon, soft white breads, earthy hay, and a faint wisp of herbs lingers in my breath. Who needs a lemonade stand when one can have a Devotion Ale from Lost Abbey. Where were those stands in my childhood?

Definitely intriguing and different when compared to the couple other Lost Abbey ales I have had so far. Personally, I loved the Devotion Ale, though the various sour lemons and citric esters may be a deterrent to others. A great summer refresher, accompaniment to salad or citric braised fish, Lost Abbey pulls off yet another fabulous creation.

Thanks to BDR for hauling one back for me! Gold color with a thin head. Aroma of lemon, coriander and a bit of wheat. A kind of sweet, Munich malt flavor and a bit of caramel. Light floral/Noble hop and light yeastiness. Dry finish. Quite enjoyable.

Sample at Julio’s. Appears gold with a moderately sized head. Aroma is simple and sugary, soft pear-like fruit. Flavor is standard Belgian spice and pale malt, perhaps with a bit of herbs. Buttery palate. Decent, but I’m not finding much of interest here.