Amazing Grace Ale
The Lost Abbey

Amazing Grace AleAmazing Grace Ale
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From:
The Lost Abbey
 
California, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
9.5%
Score:
90
Avg:
4.03 | pDev: 8.93%
Reviews:
98
Ratings:
155
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 20, 2019
Added:
Dec 05, 2006
Wants:
  135
Gots:
  37
Blended Ale aged in French Oak Red Wine Barrels for 18 months with brettanomyces added.
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Ratings by brewandbbq:
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Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire

4.32/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750ml bottle at 58 degrees, a tasty post-turduckin treat.

Pours clear mahogany with a ruby tinge. A two-plus inch head of biege dense foam settled slowly to reveal plenty of clingy lacework and a solid skim coat. Finally a well carbonated Lost Abbey bottle!

Aromatics lead off with great blend of oaky tannins, vineous overtones, and brett.
Red wine, dusty malt, caramel, cloves, pineapple, horseblanket, and wet hay. Hints of white pepper, dried figs, raisins, and anise follow through.

Medium bodied and creamy, with a crisply finishing mouthfeel.

Ripe dark fruit, red wine, figs, raisins, caramel, and spice start the palate. Hints of earthy wood notes, fresh cut hay, lemongrass, dark rum, and schezuan peppercorns follow through.

Finishes with a tart vineousity, lingering fruit, and warming spice.

I'm really diggin' the Brett that's starting to take hold, and the better than average (for an LA brew) carbonation level kicks the beer up to the next level.
Yum.
Nov 27, 2008
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4 by jschott75 from Illinois

Jun 20, 2019
 
Rated: 3.84 by Raziel313 from California

Feb 09, 2019
 
Rated: 4.5 by teamwiggum from Wisconsin

Aug 19, 2018
 
Rated: 3.94 by CSO from Illinois

Jul 14, 2018
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

4.21/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
a wild belgian dubbel is how this one drinks, a really unique brew, super rich and saturated in the red wine barrels, decadent and a slow sipper for sure, really cool to get to drink this one on tap where its made! what an experience. this has a deep brown color, reddish in the right light, viscous and thick for sure, with a short lived cream head and a strong nose of wet oak and red wine tannins. its extremely mature from a wood and brett standpoint, well aged and blended, expert and unique. the funk is strong in here, subtle candied peach and even almond or pecan, fancy belgian malts and maybe some added sugar too, but even though this is dense its not over the top sweet, some light acidity from the wine and the brett dry it up well enough for how big it is. lots of layers here, and it does improve as it warms, even though the booze comes out quite strong as it does. dark berries and raisins, oak and brandy, this tastes like the holidays to me, an experience and a one of a kind brew like so many from these guys are. always a special treat to have their stuff, especially here at the source. this was divine and the buzz set right in...
Jun 24, 2018
 
Rated: 3.99 by UCLABrewN84 from California

Jun 16, 2018
 
Rated: 3.1 by mbw314 from California

Jun 16, 2018
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Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon

4.11/5  rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
An interesting dubbel indeed. Darker brown body, one finger white head. Short retention. No lacing. Smell is spice, a bit of leather, raisins, oak, tannin, red wine. Raisins on the palate, tannic and vinous, a bit of chocolate, yeast esters, a slight leathery spice as well. Mouthfeel is lighter medium bodied, lightly carbonated, tannic on the finish, appropriately so. An interesting, heavily tannic brett ale. Very interesting and glad to have tried this.
May 06, 2018
 
Rated: 4.31 by MickeyHops from California

Sep 06, 2016
 
Rated: 4.5 by bkwhoppa66 from New Jersey

Feb 28, 2016
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Reviewed by MilwaukeeBeerMaker from Wisconsin

4.71/5  rDev +16.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Another fine offering from Lost Abbey. The wine barrel aging is done beautifully for this beer. Some nice initial wild flavor and then the wine finish drives it home. I will pick this up all day, every day and twice on Sunday!
Nov 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.93 by 22Blue from Kansas

Aug 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.2 by DaveHack from Pennsylvania

Jul 18, 2015
 
Rated: 4.36 by madtowndmb1 from Wisconsin

Jun 27, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by wulfie85 from California

May 13, 2015
 
Rated: 4.43 by Tanger112 from Illinois

Dec 23, 2014
 
Rated: 4.45 by st9647v3 from New Jersey

Dec 17, 2014
 
Rated: 4.12 by SimcoeKid from California

Nov 08, 2014
 
Rated: 3.89 by StoutSnob40 from California

Nov 08, 2014
Amazing Grace Ale from The Lost Abbey
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 155 ratings