Lost Abbey The Angels Share (Brandy Barrel) with Cabernet Grapes

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Barley Wine
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours an muddy dark brown. This one should be a little warm when u smell it. When cold smells like a urinal, when it’s a little warmer I get fruitcake. Nice taste of caramel, vanilla, fruit cake and brandy. This is a nice winter beer!

Sampled at the Lost Abbey Barrel Tasting. Pours a deep hazy brown with no head. Aroma is caramel, vanilla, grape, oak, dark fruits and alcohol. Flavor is grape, faded hops, brown sugar, oak, bourbon, much like the 08 AS but with the grape cab barrel qualities lingering beneath.

On tap at the Lost Abbey Barrel Tasting 2009. Pours cloudy amber with no head. The nose is malt, booze, dark fruits, wood and vanilla. The taste is grapes, brown sugar, malt, oaky bourbon. Flat body. Good beer, but I like the original better.

From the barrel at the barrel tasting. Wow. This is great. Sweet. Fruity, but not tart. Easy to drink. Great with the cheese. No off flavors. Excellent. I’m starting to think you could age Angel’s Share in a toilet bowl and it would be excellent.

Straight from the barrel at the Lost Abbey Barrel Tasting. Rather similar to regular brandy barrel Angels Share, all the way down to the lack of carbonation (which in this case can be attributed to the fact that it came right from the barrel). Pours a murky dark reddish-brown with a small tan head. Aroma is sweet with a small hint of tartness, with brandy, red grapes, caramel, and dark fruits. Flavor is very complex and tasty with caramel and brown sugar, raisin and other brandy-soaked dark fruits, barrel notes, vanilla, and some booze. Mostly sweet with a slight tart bite. Low carbonation but a very smooth palate with medium-full body. Another excellent Angels Share incarnation. Tomme really brews some great stuff when he’s on.