Lost Abbey Judgment Day

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

Small white head. Hazy dark brown body. Herbal licorice bubblegum and eucalyptus aroma with chocolate notes. Dry-sweetish chocolatey toffee and marzipan taste with earthy alcohol notes. Hot, yet mild and rounded mouthfeel. Dry wooden alcohol and chocolate aftertaste. Nice, mild, drinkable. (Oslo beer junta tasting.)

Sampled from gnoff & ekstedt at Haket 2009-02-18. Cloudy brown with some darker tan head. Sweet aroma, caramel, a bit roasted. Very rich, nice complexity. Taste is also sweet, dark fruit, brown sugar, some roasted malt, some hard bread. Nice thickness, warming alcohol.

1.pt 9.4floz bottle at home, going to watch sarah conner cronicles now ;-). Dark brown, small yellow head. aroma of raisins, cola nut, alc, spices, wooden notes as if it had been on wood, cellary and mouldy notes. sweetness like marcipan. interesting aroma, the dryness, fruitiness and mouldy notes almost resembles red wine, but overall it’s definetly a beer. flavor is licorice, spices, coffee, roasted grains. very powerfull with flavors that hide the alc well, or rather overshadows the alc. reminds me more of some sort of agressively brewed imperial dobbelbock mixed with quad, than a belgian quad. one of the heaviest beers i can remember to have tasted.

Pours dark brown with a pronounced amber hue with puffy, airy khaki head. The head stayed prominent for quite a while. Perhaps the travel from CA to NY shook it up a bit. Aroma of prunes, caramel, malt, a bit of strawberry. Flavors of caramel, fig, malt, and raisin. I’m surprised that no flavors really stand out or are particularly intense. Moderately strong alcohol feel throughout, and the finish is alcohol, bitterness, and a touch of caramel. I was expecting a lot more. Surprisingly forgettable.

750ml caged and corked bottle, served in a snifter. The cork came out with a very weak thump. Hazy dark brown pour with some reddish highlights and almost no head or lacing. Close to still. The aroma consisted of burnt sugar, dried raisins, dark fruits, caramel, toasted nuts, and some faint chocolate. Slightly vinous and woody also. The flavor had molasses, chocolate, caramel, raisins, and some mild alcohol. Richer and much more roasty than the nose indicated. The mouthfeel was full-bodied and slick, but there was almost no carbonation. This was pretty distracting considering that this is a style that usually has some fairly aggressive carbonation. This beer definately has potential, but it looks like they are still having some bottling issues.

Bottle (750 corked and caged). Pours a dark brown with a fizzy sound and a fizzy head that dies quickly. Aromas are a wonderful collage of dark fruit, molasses, chocolate and so on. Flavor is very nice as well, but (dare I even mention it), there isn’t a lot of carbonation to speak of and it seems a bit thin at times. This is especially the case between the forefront of dark malt and fruit and the alcoholic warmth of the finish. Just for a second, it seems to hiccup or hesitate... like it needs one more bridge to get to the finish. Still, this is darn good stuff.

Brewed in the USA....... Pours brown in color with some amber highlights and a medium off white head. Aroma of figs, prunes, raisins, malts and some brown sugar. The taste was of dark fruits, bread, malts, dough and molasses. The mouthfeel was not thick like i expected, but a bit on the thin side. Very sweet and there was also some dry alcohol warmth in the finish. Overall, i thought it was well balanced and very refreshing.

750ml bottle shared by BeerGestapo. Thanks Mike. Pours very dark brown with a black appearance in the glass, a thin khaki head sits defiantly on top. Lots of stuff going on in the nose of this one, mostly pit fruits: fig, prune, raisin, toffee, and brown sugar. The taste was prune, red grape,brown sugar, dough, and fruit cake. Slightly sweet over most of the palate the alcohol manages to dry it up a bit by the finish. Some alcoholic warmth is noticeable but nearly as much as other beers of this size. Absolutely delicious.