Lost Hog: The Wort Hog's 20th Anniversary Ale
Lost Rhino Brewing Company
- From:
- Lost Rhino Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 7.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2015
- Added:
- Mar 06, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jeffreysan from Virginia
4.13/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
22 oz bottle, poured into a mug
Appearance: Pours a beautiful, almost completely opaque, deep, dark, mahogany color, with a quarter of a finger of white-colored head that quickly dissolved away into a thin lacing of foam that partially covered the top of the beer.
Aroma: Not much in the aroma department, except for some faint notes of toasted malt and candied sugar.
Taste: What it lacks in aroma, this beer more than makes up for in flavor! Lots of toasted malt and candied sugar up front, followed by lots of toffee, and dried stone fruit such as raisins, dates, prunes and currents. I get some spices of black pepper and a touch of lavender and clove. Delicious, beer!
Mouthfeel: Slightly chewy and extremely smooth, as there’s very little in the way of carbonation. Even with an ABV of 9.0%, there is surprisingly little alcohol on the palate. It’s extremely well masked.
Overall: This is a very good and tasty beer. Great flavors of malt and candied sugar as well as toffee and stone fruit. I liked it quite a bit!
Jun 12, 2015Appearance: Pours a beautiful, almost completely opaque, deep, dark, mahogany color, with a quarter of a finger of white-colored head that quickly dissolved away into a thin lacing of foam that partially covered the top of the beer.
Aroma: Not much in the aroma department, except for some faint notes of toasted malt and candied sugar.
Taste: What it lacks in aroma, this beer more than makes up for in flavor! Lots of toasted malt and candied sugar up front, followed by lots of toffee, and dried stone fruit such as raisins, dates, prunes and currents. I get some spices of black pepper and a touch of lavender and clove. Delicious, beer!
Mouthfeel: Slightly chewy and extremely smooth, as there’s very little in the way of carbonation. Even with an ABV of 9.0%, there is surprisingly little alcohol on the palate. It’s extremely well masked.
Overall: This is a very good and tasty beer. Great flavors of malt and candied sugar as well as toffee and stone fruit. I liked it quite a bit!
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.54/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Dipping their toe into the world of Belgium, this celebratory ale captures the essence of the historic beer mecca but with the taste and technique that's common of those made here at home.
The strong Belgian-style dark ale pours with a ruby-ish mohogany pour. It's yeasty haze casts diffused chestnut highlights near the edge. The strongly carbonated ale gives up a creamy and dense sheet of foam that lasts the majority of the sessions before succumbing to its weight, alcohol and acidity. Low-lying spotty lace is also a testament to the beer's power.
Wine meets beer with the aroma of this characterful ale. Sweet notes of malt and sugar intertwines with red wine tartness, toast, chocolate, and dark fruit for a highly gratifying scent. Where the beer is subtle in its compacity for rusticity, authenticity or complexity- it has enough to seduce the nose with Belgian-esque charm.
Similarly, the beer's flavor starts of sweet with toffee-rich malts but soon round into a candied fruit medley. Plumbs, blackberries, currants, figs, grapes and raisins are all well represented while complementary notes of black pepper, rummy alcohols, wine tannin, and acidity. Where the fruit esters and yeast spices balance the beer, low-lying bitterness from hops seem supplanted by the inherent spice of yeast.
Full bodied, the beer prefers the sweeter and more weighted side of the style rather than the airier and drier versions. Its relatively high rate of residual sweetness allows the rich body to linger deep into finish where high alcohol warmth takes over and is elevated by those spices and tannin that's found in the nose.
I rather liked this beer even though it's complexity and depth of authentic Belgian character is more simplified than the earthier and more traditionally brewed ones of Belgium. But this is the taste that most American brewers achieve when veering from their comfort zone and entering the world of Belgian brewing.
Mar 15, 2013The strong Belgian-style dark ale pours with a ruby-ish mohogany pour. It's yeasty haze casts diffused chestnut highlights near the edge. The strongly carbonated ale gives up a creamy and dense sheet of foam that lasts the majority of the sessions before succumbing to its weight, alcohol and acidity. Low-lying spotty lace is also a testament to the beer's power.
Wine meets beer with the aroma of this characterful ale. Sweet notes of malt and sugar intertwines with red wine tartness, toast, chocolate, and dark fruit for a highly gratifying scent. Where the beer is subtle in its compacity for rusticity, authenticity or complexity- it has enough to seduce the nose with Belgian-esque charm.
Similarly, the beer's flavor starts of sweet with toffee-rich malts but soon round into a candied fruit medley. Plumbs, blackberries, currants, figs, grapes and raisins are all well represented while complementary notes of black pepper, rummy alcohols, wine tannin, and acidity. Where the fruit esters and yeast spices balance the beer, low-lying bitterness from hops seem supplanted by the inherent spice of yeast.
Full bodied, the beer prefers the sweeter and more weighted side of the style rather than the airier and drier versions. Its relatively high rate of residual sweetness allows the rich body to linger deep into finish where high alcohol warmth takes over and is elevated by those spices and tannin that's found in the nose.
I rather liked this beer even though it's complexity and depth of authentic Belgian character is more simplified than the earthier and more traditionally brewed ones of Belgium. But this is the taste that most American brewers achieve when veering from their comfort zone and entering the world of Belgian brewing.
Reviewed by Huhzubendah from District of Columbia
4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Shared by radagast83. Thanks Chris!
The beer is mahogany with a small, broken, tan head. The aroma offers brown sugar, yeast, malt, toffee. A touch of spice with fairly sweet notes of brown bread, brown sugar. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Lingering yeast and dark ale characteristics. Pretty good. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Mar 06, 2013The beer is mahogany with a small, broken, tan head. The aroma offers brown sugar, yeast, malt, toffee. A touch of spice with fairly sweet notes of brown bread, brown sugar. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Lingering yeast and dark ale characteristics. Pretty good. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
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