Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

Bottle from Jessup Plaza beverage. Dark brown pour with almost no head. Aroma is strong raison and dark fruit. taste is strong raision and alcohol. got much better as it warmed. Quite tasty.

Bottle from over a year ago (the first batch to make it to PA). Nice looking brown color with barely a head on it. Aroma of brown sugar, spices, cinnamon, and dark fruits. Flavor is quite sweet - caramel, burnt sugars, brown sugar, heavy raisin, and bittersweet chocolate abount. A tad boozy on the first pass, but it calmed quite a bit. Might have liked a bit more carbonation, but perhaps the first bottling was less consistent - still tasty and smooth. Another really good PP/LA beer.

This abbey quad pours a dark brown color from a corked 750ml bottle. Medium sized beige foamy head with decent retention. The aroma is dark fruit, malts, some yeast and sweet. A full bodied Abbey Quad. The malts are caramel and sweet, with lots of dark fruit and roasty malts, combine nicely with some semi-sweet chocolate flavors. The hops are earthy and a touch bitter for a quad. Nice carbonation. Touch of yeast and a little funk?, but that could be the bitterness. The chocolate flavors intensify as it warms. Very nice sipping beer. Nice sweet malt finish. Hides the alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet.

Very thick body with a two finger head. Lots of cherry and raisin flavors. Dark fruit aroma.

Bomber, shared. Pours a deep brown color with those gorgeous ruby-red edges noticeable. Aroma is a gorgeous incantation of dark fruit, caramel, and a Belgian yeast strain. Flavor is the same, with the alcohol amazingly well-hidden and the flavors exploding and then dancing across your tongue. I absolutely loved this - one of my all-time favorites in my all-time favorite style.

Dark yellow brownish. Froathy yellowish head. Aroma is caramel sweetness slight dark fruit and yeast. Flavor very biscuty, lactic and creamy. Sweet dark cherry undertone.

They really nailed the body with this beer, which is quite an achievement for stateside "Belgians". They always come out too thin. The beer is well made, but I didn’t find a lot of complexity in its flavor profile. No real interesting flavor that rose to prominence--but still pretty solid.

750mL bottle, 1st bottled release (also thanks to Kan for sharing recently!). Poured crystal-clear, shimmery coppery-brown with a lovely cap of beige head (unfortunately didn’t stick around for long). The aroma picked up a solid blend of dark sugars (vinous notes, plums, and prunes) upfront with rich caramel, chocolate, and peppery yeast not far behind.. sherry stuck on the back with a bit of less-refined alcohol, but this really grew on me as the drink progressed. The flavor had a lighter, freeer-flowing caramel and sherry character to it the whole way through.. dried spices and peppery alcohol grace the edges.. finished very dry and spicy with vinous notes and toffee. Medium-bodied with low carbonation and a slick feel across the palate.. wish it gripped a bit tighter.. finished a bit stronger, but never entirely came together. All in all a tasty brew!