Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

DDG pours a hazy golden color. It honestly looks like apple juice. No head is poured and no lacing. There are bubbles that shoot from the bottom of the glass to the top. Of course as you get deeper and deeper into the bottle that clearness goes away and becomes cloudy. Smell is all the way tart apples. It’s the number one thing I noticed. Tartness and sourness mixed together wonderfully. I also picked up some lemon, grass, citrus, and oak. The taste is more sour than I remember. It could be because of some of the age. This time around while my girlfriend liked it she didn’t quite love it. I ended up finishing almost the whole bottle by myself. I never have issues really finishing a whole bottle but when there is a sour ale involved it eventually gets pretty damn puckering. The sour and tart apples once again take front stage followed by barnyard funk, lemon, citrus, and a oaky finish. If I could describe this beer to someone I would say it’s Acidic, tart, funky, sour apple juice mixed in with wine like qualities. Mouthfeel is dry, mouth puckering, medium bodied, and acidic. Good carbonation.

Ausgewogen säuerlicher Beginn, der im Mittelteil etwas stärker aber deutlich trockener wird. (Gering) süß-säuerlich, kurz brennend, wenig bitter, ausgewogen, süffig. 11/11/13/11/14/11

Second time I had this and this is very different. Starts to come around as it warm up. Nice and funky and the soursness really starts to come our

Pours a transparent golden color, bubbles floating to the top, thin limited white head. The nose has a fair bit of sourness and acidity, light leathery brett, an earthy funk, touch of tangerine and tangy peach. The earthy funk is there with some barrel presence, hints of vanilla, the peach is sour, extremely high acidity and burns the throat. The feel is full bodied and heavy, grainy on the throat, dry, under carbonated.

2009 bottled. This is absolutely amazing, Tart, incredible. I am so happy. The appearance is opaque and cloudy, I am in love with this beer. The sour is such a perfect balance to me. There is not enough to describe. Actually if this entire post was just to say "you have to try it" at would be enough.

Yellow/gold pour with some haze and creamy head and lace. Bretty Belgian yeast and some bread. Super sour and bready. Medium/light bodied very very nice beer.

A top want provided by Chris @ MikeDashG’s 30th Birthday Party at stone. So glad I got to finally try this beer. Pour is a funky Belgian lemonade with some creamy white foams forming a pretty hat on a pretty beer. Smells like an old lemon jam. Lots of cobwebs and dusty old oakiness that gets me excited. Taste is musky old lemon, tart with a slight citrus vinegar. Not a lot of cheesiness in this one, as its very clean. Some vanilla helps make the taste memorable, but really this is a very clean and crisp tasting wild ale. The lemon is musky as can be, an old lemon with all the vibrancy of a fresh one off the vine. The feel is effervescent with a slow but consistent release of bubbles. This is amazingly drinkable, but I wouldn’t have minded even more tartness. This beer might be going through a subdued phase. Don’t miss this one, it’s a really great beer.

Tasted on 8/2/11 from a 750mL corked and caged bottle obtained in a trade. Pours clear brassy orange with an average white head that slowly recedes to a spotty layer of lace. The nose is awesome; very sour with lemon acidity, a bit of barnyard funk, the lightest hint of caramel malt, very light baking spices, and a beautiful light oaky vanilla aroma backing everything up. The flavor is very sour with a ton of lemon acidity, barnyard funk, light baking spices, and the same vanilla backbone. The body is medium with light carbonation, and a long, tannic, lemon acidic and slightly vanillin finish.