Lost Abbey The Angel's Share Grand Cru
Lost Abbey The Angel's Share Grand Cru
Rated 3.540 by BeerPals
Brewed by Port Brewing / Lost Abbey
San Marcos, CA, United States
Style: English Barleywine
12% Alcohol by Volume
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Nearly four years ago, we hired some angels to work their magic on all manners of oak barrels and beers in our barrel program. As angels go, they're alright. Sometimes, they misplace barrels. And at least one of those angels is mischievous from time to time, adding grapes to the barrels to see what might happen. Recently, we found some of these "Angel's Barrels" which we'd lost over time. After tasting them, we decided to marry some of the barrels together creating a time in a bottle snapshot of some of our favorite Angel's Share barrels. This Grand Cru bottling has been thoughtfully blended to bridge the first batches with our most recent releases. We hope that you, like us and our Angels, find it worthy of the designation Angel's Share Grand Cru.
ID: 38553 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 14 years agoKey Stats
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| Overall Rank | 2638 |
| Overall Percentile | 95.3 |
| Style Rank | 62 of 467 |
| Style Percentile | 86.7 |
| Lowest Score | 4.2 |
| Highest Score | 4.5 |
| Average Score | 4.350 |
| Weighted Score | 3.540 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9
Sampled on 2/20/2010. This barleywine pours a dark brown color from a 650ml bottle. Medium sized tan head with nice lacing and good retention. The aroma is brown sugar, malt, oak, grapes and a touch of vanilla. A medium to full bodied Barley wine. The malts are caramel, fruity, oaky and sweet. The hops are floral and earthy. Good carbonation. Note that this beer has carbonation and was NOT a gusher OK folks! Nice balance. Lots of brown sugar and oak with a touch of alcohol at the finish. This Barleywine has an excellent aging potential. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet with a touch of alcohol bite.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
this blend was sampled after partaking in an 08 brandy barrel AS, and an 09 bourbon barreled version. those were both very good, although neither was the best batch i've had. this one was just more complex, and combined the sweet fruitcake aspects of the brandy barrel and the vanilla oak of the bourbon. this is a great beer. i will expand the review when i have a larger sample (soon) but for now, this one is ever so slightly better than either of the other 2 AS brews.
