Lost Abbey Judgment Day

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
San Marcos, California USA

Corked and caged from Capone’s a while back, opened to celebrate the Phils clinching another division title (hmmm ... the skies do seem to have turned red). Vinous, raisin-soaked, Port-inflected nose is heavy on the malt with dark figs, prunes. A bit too boozy. Dark ruby brown pour with a rocky tan / light brown head. Hot and boozy overtones overwhelm the raisins and most other facets of beer, eventually moving on to dominate the finish. Dry and lightly woody with some nice dark chocolate through into the aftertaste. Sticky and has some firm bitterness. Very faint prickling from the hops on a medium body. Very good, and moderately interesting, but not great and not worth $10 to age a second bottle. Admittedly suffers from disappointment - I had hoped for much more.

Courtesy of Gillard. Pours brown with a bit of haze and orange hues topped off by a thin tan head. The aroma is rich dark fruity esters and caramelization, some raisins and mild notes of vague – blended spices. The taste is much the same with rich nearly creamy dark fruity pleasure to go along with a heaping pile of fresh raisins. The esters bring up notes of prunes, figs, dates and very ripe plums. It has a creaminess running into the finish. Very tasty.

Bottle. Poured a dark amber color with a small brown head that quickly was gone. Aroma of yeast, brown sugar, raisins and other fruits. Flavor is very sweet. Definately a beer you want to split with several people.

Bottle. Head is initially very small, fizzy, light brown, fully diminishing. Body is hazy dark brown, bottle conditioned. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel), lightly yeasty (cobwebs), with notes of alcohol, brown sugar, raisin/date, overripe banana, clove. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium to full body, syrupy texture, lively/fizzy carbonation, moderately alcoholic. A decent effort. Difficult to drink much of due to there being little to balance the massive syrupy sweetness, but the aroma is fairly pleasant (if simple and slanted heavily towards sugary sweet notes). Wouldn’t buy it again, but ok.

SDFOB-2008. Draft. Pours dark dark amber. Very sweet flavors of raisins and figs, maybe some brown sugar. Warms the mouth and throat. Tasty and drinkable.

Pours almost black with an off-white head that disappears very quickly. Aroma of raisins, molasses and cherry. Taste of raisins, molasses and alcohol. Just a bit hot.

Pours a cola like color with zero head and carbonation. Aromas of dark fruits, raisins, fig, cherry and even a bit of cola. There is a bit of heat in the nostrils as well. Flavors dark fruits and malts, cherry, and raisins, and a bit of bitternes that hits the side of your tounge. I love the flavor but the palate and appearance are lacking.

Caged and corked bottle poured into a Trios Pistoles Chalice, I’m keeping that horse thing going. First thing I noticed was the lack of carbonation it produced no head no matter how hard the pour. The brew is a Dark deep brown in color Aromas of dark fruits Burgandy like in a lot of ways with a good spice notes as well. The alcohol is well hidden either Flavors of big sweet dark fruits and alcohol hit your mouth first. Not much bitter in this at all a little spice dryness in the end. This is the first time I can truly say the mouthfeel really detracted from the brew no carbonation at all and very watery Not impressed at all with this one had a ton of better Quads and I really enjoy the style. I finished the bottle but not one of my favorites