Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Red/Brown
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle @ Monk’s Cafe: Had this during the Brett Pack Dinner during PBW. According to Tomme, this beer is aged in various oak barrels and then blended together. This one poured like a wine, not much carbonation. The color was a deep red. The aroma was cherry, oak. and vanilla. The flavor was FAN-tastic. Very sour cherry balanced by the oak and vanilla. Not an overly sweet aftertaste either. Very smooth. Definitely my favorite beer of the night. Almost wine like. I could see this being the way of the future, instead of wine, I’ll have a Red Poppy please.

375ml.2011 vintage.Pours a deep red with an insanely fizzy red to off white head.Nose is bright cherry,heavy woody oak notes and some basement smells.Wow.Taste is ultra sour and tart cherry, vanilla and caramel oak and a perfect mouthwatering sour finish.My first perfect score.

Nose is light vinegar and sour cherries. A little bit of wood and vanilla. Even some smoke comes in at the end. Nice and complex, puckers up quick and then dies off. Plenty tart but not super sour, seems like barrel aging at its finest! Balances the sour, wood and fruity tartness perfectly. Little bit of brettomyces comes through...WOW, this is incredible. Easily one of the top 5 beers I have ever had.

Pours dark brown with a thick tan head. Nice aroma of cherries. Tastes of cherries, sour/tart, and oak. The tartness is not too abrasive. It's very drinkable. Very good sour. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours dark mahogany with a medium light beige head. Smell claims a little bit sour, hints of cherries, and a touch of oak sweetness. Taste is sour, fruity, a touch sweet, a tiny bit woody, and a lot of sour. Light-to-medium bodied with a prickly texture and fizzy mouth-carbonation, Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale finishes with a tingling sour dryness.

Amazing and over the top caramel and molasses. Crisp sour yet very cleanly and controlled fermentation. Hardly any malt flavor comes through, yet somewhat sweet with some familiar, but non beer flavors. A hint of ginger. Delicious. Like savory candy. Amazing brew...one of the best.

Cocacola brown with lots of head. Sour nose with a good amount of fruit. Very sour with more fruit flavors than the cuvee de tomme. Notes of cherry prevail. Great mouthfeel

Tasted 2010-06-06. Courtesy of Bo. Pours dark amber with beige head. Lactic, woody aroma. Very tart, and very acidic on the palate. Well rounded, woodish, funky flavour. Exremely well balanced. Very tasty.

Wow. wow. wow. I really, really like this beer. I like Red Poppy, but I love double Red Poppy. Is it because of recipe tweaks between 2008 and 2009? Is it that the additional cherry juice lends additional sweetness? A wonderful acetic tartness, which reminds me of balsamic vinegar. Lots of cherry notes. Insanely drinkable. With unlimited funds and time, I would have drank as much as I could, but only had one glass. One wonderful glass.
Earlier Rating: 8/26/2007 Total Score: 4.5
Tasted at Lost Abbey 1st Annual Barrel Tasting on 8/25/07. Used to be named Le Woody Brune at Solano Beach Pizza Port. 4 barrels/100 cases were made, but won’t be released until Spring? Made in old 1997 red wine barrels with subdued oak characteristics. 4oz sample from barrel was flat and at room temperature: need to re-rate when bottles are released in Spring. I expect it to be better and more sour then. Made with Dawn Patrol Dark as a base, and I think I heard it was blended with a barrel aged Amigo Lager. Deep red color approaching black. No head, which I would expect to reduce aroma, but still had a wonderful sour cherry aroma I could smell all day. Made with Brettanomyces yeast, which is a super attenuator, so I expected the beer to be dry, but there is still a nice hint of sweetness. Mild pleasant sourness, that I think even sour haters would like. Normally beers are better with cheese, but I like this beer by itself, because cheese over powers the wonderful flavors. Extremely pleasant to drink.

What a sour aroma. Wow! This is one tart beer. I’m drinking this through my teeth. A little sticky in the finish, but otherwise excellent.