Lost Abbey Veritas 001

Formerly brewed at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Date: 02/09/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Extreme Beer

opaque dark burgendy, huge creamy beige head, lots of lace, huge tart cherry aroma with a woody cherry pit character, lots of tart cherry flavor, lots of wood character, touch of vanilla hiding in the background,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4
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(bottle, courtesy of mar) Pours a cloudy amber brown body with a spare off-white head. Aroma of vinegar, yogurt, cherries, some leather, and barnyard. Flavor of cherries, herbs, earth, honey, raspberries, chocolate, vinous, and vinegar.

Bottle… This beer rocks!… Murky caramel-colored ale with no head. The nose is just a fantastic blend of caramel, cherries and berry acidity with a kiss of acetic red wine. Full-bodied with a milky mouthfeel and nearly expired carbonation. The flavor is all about tart cherries, tangy red wine and toffee sweetness… the acidity reigns. Finishes fruity and tart with lots of cherries. Kudos to OrlGamecock for sharing the bottle!

UPDATED: MAR 31, 2009 750ml shared by artusory. Pours a purple brown with pretty much no head. Sticky plum and wood nose, along with some sweet brown sugar and toasted bread, bran, plums and black cherries, and even some brandy scented pancake syrup. Mild prickly texture up front, nearly flat, but moderately tart and woody. Stems and pits all over this thing. Thick and viscous with a bretty tartness, dried cranberries and some dried red grapes in the drying finish. Good stuff, but would like to have more carbonation and perhaps more of the brandy character that’s in the nose show up in the flavor. Still, few complaints.

Very cloudy brownish/toffee colored pour. Aroma is a super blend of dark cherry fruit, tart vinegar notes and some wet oak notes. Flavor is tart and fruity. I get tart cherries, rich wine notes, vinegar tartness...damn good. Im very glad to get to try this one.

Bottle. Pours a hazy brune body with an off white head. Funky chewy cherry pit, skins pulp and a light woodiness. Lots of cuvee de tomme? A very nice sour ale.

EBF 2007. One of my favorites at the fest. Pours a deep hazy amber/ with woody brown highlights and a sticky lasting head. Aroma is sour cherry, brett, funk, a wierd sugary sweetness, some lacto sourness and barnyard funky- slightly cheesy. Nice tart flavor, wine-like, grapeskin, tannic, sharp sourness with more cherry pit, and almond astringency especially at the end. Good body with a nice sour tart finish and some woody notes. Great blend.

Many thanks to I believe Wetherel who brought this (Bottle 42) to the 2007 PP SAF:

The beer poured a muddy brown with reddish highlights with no head nor lace but was oily. The aroma has notes of lovely funk and cheese, sour grape and cherry, fig, woody and earthy. The flavor displays the same sour fruits along with notes of chocolate, sugar, cinnamom, and wood. The mouth feel is warming and oily with a shapr acidity. Lovely stuff, I dig it.

UPDATED: MAR 25, 2009 Bottle #69 that I bottled myself at the 1st Annual Barrel Tasting Event at the brewery. Very cool event. Finally popping this bad boy with some of the Tampa crew. Pours clear brown with copper hues and tiny off white head. The aroma is full of drool inducing ripe cherries and wood but preceded by some tartness that moves slowly into faint funk. All those notes are followed by a lingering soft cherry goodness at the end of the draw. Very nice complex nose that I can ponder for days. I also get growing smooth oaky wood notes with additional draws. The taste has rich ripe cherries along with some tart cherries moving into smooth oak wood notes and a mild growing tartness. By midway it becomes dry and refreshing. As the finish approaches wood and cherries escort your palate to the after taste with only a background of tartness and a front to back mild funkiness. Refreshing and just plain old yum. Wish I had one more to age further to see where this one goes.

This Belgian Strong Ale pours a medium dark amber color from a 750ml bottle. Small head (nearly last pour from a bottle that had been open for a while). Aroma is dark fruit, wood and some funk. A medium bodied BSA. The malts are fruity and sweet, yet there is a touch of funk going on. Interesting blend of fruit and funk. Definitely different than the Veritas 002. Nice beer. Would like to sample this one again. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet and a touch tart.