Lost Abbey Yellow Bus

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 750ml.

[ Trade by toncatcher ]. Clear medium orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy peach, tart, wood, vinegar, citrus acidic. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, dry dry, tart, acetic. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100618]

This presently top-50 beer is entered to celebrate my 1900th US rating. Bottled at RBSG 2008. A hazy golden beer with a white head. The aroma is acidic with notes of malt, citrus, wood, and brettanomyces. The flavor is acidic with quite strong notes of wood and brettanomyces, with a tart finish. Very nice.

From bottle at Lost Abbey. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a lacing white head. Dense orange fruity and light brettish dry aroma. Flavour is tart to smooth fruity orange. Brett dry too. Good balance and still very flavourful/fruity. Dry and tart finish with a persisting fruity note.

(Draught) Pours a cloudy golden orange body with a small white head. Aroma of lemon, mustiness oak, peach, and horseblanket. Flavor of tart lemons and fresh peaches. Excellent mouth puckering acidity with a dry oak finish. This sour ROCKS!!

Bottle. Courtesy of andersand. Pours a hazy golden color with a small fast disappearing off-white head. Has a fruity tart vinegary funky fruity peach aroma. Fruity sour tart funky woody flavor with sweetish peach hints. Has a fruity sour tart woody funky peach finish.

Bottle… RBSG ‘08… This beer rocks!… Hazy golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. Acidic, peppery aroma. Medium to full-bodied with modest carbonation. Very sour… just enough residual sugar to keep my lips from puckering and my eyes from clenching shut. Finishes tart and fruity, then dries out. Liquid fun. A joy to drink!

Sampled at the second annual Bistro’s West Coast Barrel Aged Beer Fest: Pours a hazy goldenrod with a frothy, well-lacing white head. Aroma of tart sweet lemon and some earthy oak complexity along with notes of olive oil. Body starts semi-sweet with some funky earthy complexity and faint vegetal character toward a tart, slightly puckering finish. Has some mild earthy peachskin flavor throughout. Pretty interesting.

750 ml corked and caged bottle shared by Forgetfu (Big thanks Bill!!!)poured a hazy tarnished gold with a lingering ring of white foam. Aromas of peach, straw,vanilla, biscuit and light barnyard. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry tart finish. Flavors of peach, straw, vanilla and light barnyard with a crisp dry tart lingering funky peach finish.

Rating #2500. what a treat to try his one. Cloudy golden yellow pour. White head. Aroma is sour but enticingly fruity. The peaches are noticeable as you inhale the aroma over and over. Nice funk in the nose too. Flavor is sour, very sour but this beer is so complex. Soft in the mouth but tingly with little bubbles. Sour, funk, peach, tart apricot, woody notes and more of that damn fine sourness!! Great beer. Really great!!!

Bottled at Lost Abbey, 2007 bottle. Poured just about clear medium golden with a short, fizzy cap of white head. The aroma was powerful with tart peach skins and lesser apricot upfront and a fresh, spicy oak impression supporting it.. very assertive. The flavor found bracingly tart peach skins that singed the tip of the tongue for an initial impression.. some meaty peaches rolled in behind along with a second hit of acidity (vinegar and more peach skins).. engaging throughout. Lots of lip-puckering sourness on the palate along with light scratchy bitterness and zesty wheat.. long, bone-dry, memorable finish. Excellent!