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Amazing Grace Ale
The Lost Abbey
- From:
- The Lost Abbey
- California, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 8.93%
- Reviews:
- 98
- Ratings:
- 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:
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
4.32/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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, 2008Pours 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.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.21/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
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, 2018Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
4.11/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
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, 2018Reviewed 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
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
Amazing Grace Ale from The Lost Abbey
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
155 ratings
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