Lost Abbey Judgment Day

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle, kindly shared by gunnar. ABV 10.5%. Very dark brown colour, large beige head. Intense malty aroma, notes of oak and vanilla, hints of spices. The flavour is oaky and spicy, notes of old sherry, decent bitterness in the finish.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a nice dark mahogany with a fairly thick light tan head. Aroma is malty and slighty sweet with a decided raisin undertone and a hint of yeast. Malty and slightly syrupy flavor has tones of fruit and raisin with a hint of caramel and a bit of an alcohol nip. Silky smooth texture has a subtle tingle and leaves a slightly rough and fizzy finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Body appears so very dark brown you can just call it black and be done with it, a nice tan colored skiff floats on top but seems small for the style. Aroma does have some hot alcohol that is perfumey and yummy. Taste and aroma are similar and an the average to mild side of things, banana, yeast, hints of coffee, and pepper. Brew starts to turn sweet after a while giving off flavours of brown sugar and cherries. Brew has a great thick malty flavor that coats as you swallow. Brew is high quality and very yummy but doesn’t stand out in my mind as a great beer but I’m very glad a tried it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

pours near black with a dark fruit, yeast and licorice in the aroma. feel is a touch hot, but not bad. full bodied. suprising amount of raisiny chocolate in the flavor. quite tasty...not an everyday drinker, but nice.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question... skip that.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Fantastic head on the pour. Rich, light tan in color and hangs around for a while. Aroma is sweet malt, bitter apple and sour citrus. Spicy flavor with anise, fennel and ginger. Granny smith apple and clove and orange peel are quite present as well. Flavor is sharp and robust, but cloying rather than dominating. Artfully balanced. This is a quad to drink slowly. Warming a bit gives a sweeter profile. Bitter, dark chocolate and ginger with hints of sour citrus and a bit of pine. It is going to take time to enjoy this one, and definately a great brew to enjoy with a hearty steak. Excellent carbonation, cork launched 4 feet out the bottle. Finish is akin to a marching brass band with crashing cymbals on your tongue. The ginger and citrus are up front and then the earthy, oaky hints linger in the end. Amazingly well balanced. I am mostly a stout guy and hop-head. This has turned me into a fan of the style and interest in trying more tripples and quads has gone up because of this brew.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottled (thanks stoutlover72!). Deep amberybrown colour, small head. Aroma is raisins, plum, some alcohol and mild notes of fruits. Flavour is fruits, alcohol, raisins, ashes and liquorice as well as some spicyness. Dry bittery grass, coffee and some yeast as well. Complex and quite good beer in it’s style.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This abbey quad pours a dark brown color from a corked 750ml bottle. Medium sized beige foamy head with decent retention. The aroma is dark fruit, malts, some yeast and sweet. A full bodied Abbey Quad. The malts are caramel and sweet, with lots of dark fruit and roasty malts, combine nicely with some semi-sweet chocolate flavors. The hops are earthy and a touch bitter for a quad. Nice carbonation. Touch of yeast and a little funk?, but that could be the bitterness. The chocolate flavors intensify as it warms. Very nice sipping beer. Nice sweet malt finish. Hides the alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

2008 bottling Batch 2; Sampled June 2008
A stout pour produces a three finger thick, amber stained, darker tan colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer is a dark, concentrated plum color that shows a brilliantly clear, ruby color when held up to the light. The aroma is fruity smelling and perhaps a bit more subdued than I was expecting. Toasty grain notes are also noticeable as they mix with the more dominant notes of prunes and raisins. A spiciness starts to become noticeable as well providing notes of woody black pepper, an earthy-herbal note, some sweet clove phenolics and something that is a mix of fruit and spice, but reminds me of cola or Dr. Pepper. A touch of toasty, almost roasted, sort of nutty malt character comes through in the aroma as the beer warms up. I am not sure about the aroma here, not nearly as expressive or interesting as I was hoping, though it is certainly not bad.

Sweet tasting up front, a bit viscous and chewy, though it is not cloying. Flavors of savory prunes, raisins and a fruity nutty note come through up front. The beer finishes with a mix of toasted malt, spicy phenolics and higher alcohols as well as a touch of tamarind like fruitiness and light tartness. Flavors of brown sugar, caramelized fruit, toffee, rum-soaked sugar and even a sort of cinnamon note (not really but something evocative of this spice). Spicy notes of clove, perhaps a hint of ginger, some pepper (from the medium carbonation as much as anything), a touch of cardamom and a smidgen of mace.

The second pour of this brew yields a much more aromatic nose that takes on a very savor, concentrated malt and fruit character in addition to the rich spice notes mentioned previously. The flavor really develops a richness induced by the concentrated malt / raisin notes, but it is accented heavily by the underlying, fermentation derived, spice and fruit character. I really like the savory, lightly tart tamarind note that this beer has to it.

This has definitely improved over last years vintage; I think this will age better and is currently much more integrated and drinkable. It still is not quite at the level I expect from this brewery though.

First Release Sampled multiple times
Total is equal to 3.7 8/8/7/8/6
Pours with a frothy, initially half-finger thick, darkish, amber-tan colored head. The beer is a brilliantly clear, dark, purple tinged, ruby color when held up to the light, otherwise it is quite a dark, opaque, burn amber color. The aroma smell strongly of dark fruit with notes of figs, raisins and prunes all being present. Some dusty malt presence is also here, perhaps something like chocolate, but not really, perhaps more like toasted grain, or is this the signature of some blackened raisins. Some vibrant fruit notes become noticeable after a bit, with aromas of cherries and concentrated tropical fruit even.

A rich body, yet without being overly sweet. The beer actually finishes quite dry because of an astringent, perhaps burnt quality. Up front though it does have a sweetness, which accentuates a dark fruit character. Quite a bit of dusty malt character is here it sort of tastes something like dusty cocoa powder, but other times like dusty astringent grain husks. As my palate gets used to this beer it loses some of the sweetness, and even picks up a touch of acidity (is that roast / dark grain derived).

After stories of people getting off bottles of this, I can say that I have had four of these now, purchased from three different parts of the country, that have not been off. Having said that, this beer could use a bit of work. It is not at the level of excellence that the last bottle of MOAB that I had was.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Thanks to omhper. clear burgundy brown colour with a low grey head. Big fruity aroma of figs, prunes, cherries, caramel, leather and anise-seeds. Full, soft malty flavour of yeast, fudge, sweet licorice, cherries and alcohol. Full creamy mouthfeel. Long aftertaste of nuts, prunes, figs, mild spices and alcohol. Nice one.