Lost Abbey Sinners Ale 2010

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle shared by Drew. Thanks! Pours a deep brown, pushing black. It’s flat. Nose is heavy barrel. Angel’s share is the driving force here, falling into some cherries and tartness. Fruity. On tasting, it is huge. Big and boozy, like Angel’s share blended with a sour ale (duh.) Super interesting in small quantities, it gets to be far too much after a while.

2010 bottle. Pours a clear medium brown, like light syrup. Complex aroma of sweet bourbon, fig, plum, and maple syrup. Taste of hot sour cherries with a light but lingering vinegar finish. Light body. A strange but awesome brew. 

Bottle shared by ahalloin. Thanks Tony! The beer appears a reddish orange hue, with minimal head that leaves no lacing whatsoever on the tulip glass. Complex aroma of booze, cherries, funk. Classic Lost Abbey aroma. Great for sipping. Interesting flavor with a lot going on. A blend of sweet and tart. Fruit, booze, barrels, tannins. Very low carbonation gives the feel of a fine port. Good choice for a nightcap. Recommended. Would like to have a few of these in the cellar. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 10-18-2011

Bottle from a trade with cbkschubert. Pours cloudy dark reddish brown color with zero head. Aromas of sour cherries, caramel, oak, molasses and red wine. Sour vinegar and sweet molassess flavors with oak , vanilla, red wine. Medium body with no carbonation. Thanks Craig.

In short: An extremely harsh, very acidic and very messy brown sour ale. Not fun
How: Bottle 375ml, corked & caged. Consumed a little more one year after the beer release (I have found that the previous Sinners blends needed some time to really blend). Bottle from GT2… I think, thanks GT, not your fault
The look: Cloudy muddy brown-burgundy body topped by a beige ring of foam. An ungly beer
In long: Nose is very sour/acidic, a burst of acetic acid with the barrels and funk bringing a wet leather in the aroma. Taste is burnt caramel crashing with abrasive acetic acid, wet leather, sour grapes, musty, leathery brett, vinegar, lemon juice, vinous edge, graham cookies, oak tannins. I could go on and on… This beer is extremely harsh, an army of razor-sharp flavors assaulting my palate. The intensity is there, the 2oz raters are probably enjoying it, but I could not finish my little 375ml. That type of brutal messy amateurish vinegary sour ale is something I would expect from a Jackie-O or a CCB, maybe even a Bruery on a bad day, but from Lost Abbey?!?!?!? I’m puzzled. Big disappointment here. This Sinners beer might be a failure but overall there are excellent Sinners in America, with gluttony being serious sin about 75% of those fat-ass Americans are going straight to hell.

Bottle. Pours murky brown with a small caramel head. Aroma of dark fruits, wood, red wine, booze. Flavour of the same. Very sour, not much different to 09. Not bad.

375mL bottle, pours a dark, dark mahogany with zero head. Aroma of sour grapes, other soured dark fruits, a lot less roastiness than the ’09. Flavour is a bit odd, hard to describe, with quite sour grapes, oak barrels, wood, and more sourness. Very intrusive sourness lingers on the tongue. Extreme and very enjoyable, though I prefer the ’09.

Shared at a Lost Abbey sour tasting. Poured with plenty of dark ruby notes, not a whole lot of head (as expected from previous pours today). Some wood notes, with light tart grape notes, and plenty of dried raisin notes with perhaps a touch of vanilla and oak. Pretty enjoyable.

Tasted on 7/2/12 from a corked and caged 375mL bottle shared by CurtisMcArthur, big thanks. Pours cloudy dark caramel brown with no head, but a little bit of bubbly lace. The nose is caramel, full of red wine vinosity, super funky and earthy yeast, tart red fruit, and a sour note as well. The flavor is super vinous with nice caramel, and tons of vanilla oak, with a nice dose of sourness as well. The body is full with no carbonation and a very long, very complex finish.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear red-brown coloured with a small off-white ehad. Fruity and light acidic aroma of red wine and port wine with notes of cherries. Fruity and light acidic flavour of red wine and dried fruits with notes of oak. Tart finish.