Lost Abbey Veritas 008

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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(Draught) Pours a cloudy golden body with a medium white head. Aroma of lemon, tea, herbs, florals, apricot, and strawberries. Flavor of tea, lemon, florals, watermelon, apricot, and strawberries.

On tap at the Barrel Night. This is the same beer as TEA and should be merged. Pours with a hazed golden body and a white head. Aroma is ridiculously aromatic. Huge peach, floral, citrus zest (orange, lemon), stone fruit, apricot, nectarine, tangerine, with a little bit of a white wine presence. Flavors are tart, with pedio and funk. Not as fruity as the amazing nose. Some tangerine, mango and lemon zest in the flavors. Acidic and dry. Very interesting to say the least.

I had a really difficult time rating this one. I love tea and sun tea/iced tea, and therefore the flavors and aromas were nice, but I think it was too overwhelmingly tea flavored and not enough sour ale. Pours a mudddle brown tea color. Aroma is Arnold Palmer, with some light funkiness and some very soft carbonation. Black Tea, lemon, very faint yeastiness in the flavor. Very drinkable, I’m sure it would be very nice on a hot day. Not Funky enough though, more sour please and a little less tea.

Pouring at Night of the Funk on the Friday night of Belgian Beer Fest in Boston. Looks like tea. Brown and fuzzy, sitting under a medium sized white to beige head. Smells of tea, herbs, big ginger notes. Reminiscent in some ways of Lambrucha. Bright and lively. Herbal, very interesting. Bitterness cuts through. Tart and medicinal in spots, herbal and woody. Another really good sour from Lost Abbey, and one of the standouts of the night.

NotF. A hazy golden pour with a small white head. The aroma is very strange indeed- earl grey and other black tea incarnations lead to strong lemon acidity. This is very much like an Arnold Palmer. The funky characteristics are quite subdued- this doesn’t even taste that much like beer. The palate is medium bodied and highly quaffable with a tannic dry finish.

Served from a tea pitcher at Stone 14th Anniversary. Slightly hazy golden yellow, frothy white head. Lemons, sun tea, tart, sweet citrus fruit (almost candy sweet), sour fruit ... hard to nail this one down. MMMmmm this is delicious and it was perfect for a hot day. I wish I could get more of this.

On draft at Lost Abbey for Pre-stone 14th anniversary breakfast. Poured a golden fizzy color with tiny head. Aroma was lemonade and limes. Taste was like a sweet lemonade ice tea (arnold palmer). Had a mildly tart puckering sourness to it. Nice carbonation. Overall very weird but good.

Tasted at Stone Anniversary 14th. The pour was from a pitcher and gave slightly murky golden color. Aromas were lemony and tangerine like. Tart slightly sour flavors with a good dose of tea. Very easy to drink. Different, light and pleasant .

Served from an iced tea pitcher at the Stone 14th Anniversary Celebration. The appearance is a cloudy tea brown. The nose is tart lemon and tea. The flavors are strong tea bags, sour/tart lemons. Not a crazy complex beer but a wonderfully flavored and refreshing brew. A perfect beer for a hot summer day. I wish this would become a regular summer offering.

Sample at Lost Abbey. 1st rating. Strange beer all around, very light colored, aroma of citrus (lemons). Flavor was like lemon ice tea, pretty refreshing in the end, glad to have tried it. (1368)