Lost Abbey Isabelle Proximus

Sampled at Bocky Bash on 7-5-08 Lady Isabelle was put before us at the table and all I could think of is where is footy. Musty sweet and sour aroma. Hazy gold body with good head and carbination bubble action. Sour and tartjust like the style indicates. Thanks Pauls for sharing this one with us.

Sampled at Bockyhorse’s Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Pours a golden apple cider color with a small head that fades into a ring around the edge. Aroma of lemons and sour apple, with yeast and straw also detectable. Great sour fruity lemon and wood flavor. Lots of yeast and funk on the finish. Nicely carbonated. Very refreshing. A seriously amazing brew.

Bottle tasted at the 7/5/08 Bock Bash locals tasting. Pours a golden yellow with minimal white head. Nose is lemons, crab apple, yeast, barnyard funk and aspirin. Taste is lemon juice, vinegar, sour wine grapes with a slight aspiriny finish. Light, refreshing mouth feel. Soury goodness.

From a 750mL Bottle. Mostly hazy, straw gold colored pour with a thin finger of large bubbled, fizzy white head. A steady stream of large fizzy bubbles stream up the sides of my glass, building up a layer of bubbles along the edges and collapsing in the middle before they have time to accumulate a thick head. The nose is a pleasant interplay of barrel and wild yeast characters. There’s tart lemon rind, musty brett, ripened brie, and leather layered on top of a subtle vanilla backdrop. I’m also picking up a subtle nutty-woody character reminiscent of water chestnuts that I also detected in Cable Car - a distinctly memorable aromatic characteristic. Medium-light bodied, softly carbonated mouthfeel with a bold acidity. It’s certainly dry and carbonated, but the extreme dryness and champagne-like carbonation level found in the best gueuzes is missing here. The flavors are intensely sour, with a slight acetic note coming through on the backend. The vanilla notes found in the nose don’t really translate through to the flavors, but there is certainly an underlying spicy oak flavor here. Tart peaches and other light fruits. Where the aroma seems incredibly funky, the flavors come through as bright and fruity. White pepper and a nutty goat cheddar flavor comes out toward the finish. Excellent beer overall that combines an impressive level of acidity with a delightful flavor complexity.

Pours cloudy orange blonde. Sweet and sour aroma, citrus. Flavor is extremely sour and salty. Leaves your mouth dry and salty.