Lost Abbey Judgment Day

Dark walnut color with tan head that lingers for a bit. Nose of charred wood, dark pitted fruits, and raisins. Flavor is sweet dark fruits, brown sugar, raisins...and as it warms a touch of milk chocolate. Finish is rich and filling...and a touch hot. Very enjoyable Quad.

After several years of lurking, i was drinking this when i finally decided to submit a rating. A gorgeous beer to look at dark, but clear, with a nice head and great lacing. The taste is complex and sweet with rasins and ripe fruits dancing on the tounge. Its very good but short of the best i have had.

This is one beautiful beer. At first, I thought it was a dark mahogany, but when more closely inspected, it’s a deep scarlet, only revealed by backlighting. Head is tan and a bit fizzy. Nose is dried fruit, brown sugar and alcohol. The flavor is the same as the nose, although a bit more subtle, but is the smoothest and creamiest on the palate as any Abt I’ve had.

750ml Bottle: Sweet aroma. Smells of roasted malts, dark ripe fruits, mocha, and caramel. Poured mahogany/ruby in color with a small, beige head that diminished quickly. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of roasted malts, dark ripe fruits, candi sugar, mocha, caramel, some bitter hops, and alcohol. Medium to full body. Thick, syrupy texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, roasted malt and dark fruit finish.

Draught (!) Huge, dark-beige head over hazy dark chestnut beer; Very "Belgian" nose with dark fruity, fusels, little coriander-like spices, dark malts and raisins. Sweet, with a little sourish edge. Raisins, grapes, fortified wine, fusels, oak. Very oily-smooth, viscous, and VERY well-bodied. Superb realisation, again, smooth & deadly.

Tap @ Port Brewing. Deep amber color,reddish brown. Malty aroma with some chocolate. Biscuit taste with some malt and a touch of hops. Subtle alcohol, loads of malt throughout. Great alcohol warming. Excellent. Would buy again

strong lasting aromas of raisin, fig and the caramely base found in my favorite types of barleywine. poured in a trappist glass, but the head was thin and short lasting. the beer itself though is a respectable mysterious dark dark brown with ripe plum hues and some haze. sweet in the mouth, nearly sticky and off putting. still young and sharp. oh goodness, now i notice a thick sludgy film on the bottom of the glass. looks like this’ll be a two-stager. initially there’s some cherry and walnut, but the sharp alcohol cuts a bit deep and i want to either store another bottle for a year or bring an open flame to the glass and reduce the liquid. after swirling and adding the bonus goodness to the remaining beer in my goblet the beer mellowed significantly as i drank the first part much too quickly to let the octane influence my opinion. the ripe berry notes came out more on top of the sting and the body thickened only a touch. I’ve really been looking forward to this beer, and now I will look equally forward to enjoying an older bottle.

This packs the punch that Lost & Found didn’t have. Also brewed with raisins, which lends it an aroma and a flavor of (you guessed it) raisins, along with other dried fruits... but this one sticks to the darker side of the spectrum - plums, figs and grapes rather than apricots. A bit of yeasty bread in there, too, making this like a good sweet bread made with raisins. Pours a deep brown with a thin head, the aroma is *very* sweet, and the carbonation - while lively - isn’t overpowering, partly because this beer is much thicker than the others I’ve tried from Lost Abbey. While not quite up to some of the real Belgian quads I’ve tried (I’m still just not sure about raisins), this is a wonderful effort at an incredibly complex beer. Careful, though - this one belies its 10.5%.