Tomme Arthur Showed Up at Our Lost Abbey Tasting!

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  1. starrdogg

    starrdogg Initiate (0) Jun 21, 2010 District of Columbia

    There truly wasn't a single bad beer in the entire tasting, but if I was going to empty my cellar to get one beer, it would probably be Veritas 004 or Veritas 005. Those beers were both nearly perfect. Veritas 006, 010 and Yellow Bus were also some of my favorites. On the disappointing side, I'd say Isabelle and Veritas 007 didn't quite live up to my expectations, but they were great beers nonetheless. Oh, and Veritas 008 is totally underrated - completely different from the rest of the Veritas series, but when evaluated on its own merits, it's a damn good beer.
     
    #21 starrdogg, Jul 2, 2012
  2. mikecharley

    mikecharley Savant (1,214) Nov 6, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Wow, that is incredibly cool.
     
    #22 mikecharley, Jul 2, 2012
  3. BearsOnAcid

    BearsOnAcid Pooh-Bah (2,239) Mar 17, 2009 Massachusetts
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    I actually liked that beer too. The tea works well and it isn't overtly sour like some other LA beers.
     
    #23 BearsOnAcid, Jul 2, 2012
  4. dauss

    dauss Pooh-Bah (1,954) Aug 9, 2003 Colorado
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    So, I'm holding a Russian River tasting at my place in a few weeks......
     
    #24 dauss, Jul 2, 2012
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  5. hopsputin

    hopsputin Grand Pooh-Bah (4,403) Apr 1, 2012 New Jersey
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    Hey, so ummmmm I'm gonna put together a Lost Abbey tasting haha.


    That's awesome
     
    #25 hopsputin, Jul 2, 2012
  6. queens1130

    queens1130 Initiate (0) Nov 21, 2008 California

    read Tomme's twitter feed this morning about crashing a tasting in DC & automatically thought of you guys posting several times looking for bottles. So amazing that turn of events cause things like this to happen, glad you guys had a blast!
     
    #26 queens1130, Jul 2, 2012
  7. xnicknj

    xnicknj Initiate (0) May 25, 2009 Pennsylvania

    so this is what Tomme was tweeting yesterday? what an awesome story.
     
    #27 xnicknj, Jul 2, 2012
  8. Cinderbike

    Cinderbike Initiate (0) Jan 16, 2011 Nevada

    That's awesome!
     
    #28 Cinderbike, Jul 2, 2012
  9. CenCalMario

    CenCalMario Initiate (0) Jan 12, 2009 California

    Pretty awesome! Sounds like a good time... Saw that my friend Ryan was in D.C. with his boss, guess it was perfect timing for all to have a mega tasting. Yellow Bus walking in the door with the creator himself is surreal, looks like he got an 'Almost Famous' moment and partied with "the people" :slight_smile:
     
    #29 CenCalMario, Jul 2, 2012
  10. pschul4

    pschul4 Initiate (0) Jan 7, 2011 Illinois

    This is the coolest thing I've heard of in a long time!
     
    #30 pschul4, Jul 2, 2012
  11. yourefragile

    yourefragile Initiate (0) Dec 16, 2006 District of Columbia

    Dear Penthouse, I never thought this could happen to me.
    :slight_smile:
     
    #31 yourefragile, Jul 2, 2012
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  12. ShogoKawada

    ShogoKawada Initiate (0) May 31, 2009 Pennsylvania

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    #32 ShogoKawada, Jul 2, 2012
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  13. Levitation

    Levitation Initiate (0) Aug 7, 2009 California

    tomme's always been pretty badass. unfortunately i'm sure people will find a way to shit on this.
     
    #33 Levitation, Jul 2, 2012
  14. leedorham

    leedorham Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2006 Washington

    that's pretty badass right there.

    Curious, the beginning of your story made it seem like this Ryan/Chris guy had something to do with Tomme showing up then no? That was a totally separate part of the story?
     
    #34 leedorham, Jul 2, 2012
  15. starrdogg

    starrdogg Initiate (0) Jun 21, 2010 District of Columbia

    Oh yeah, I guess I didn't explain it properly. Ryan is Lost Abbey's social media/press guy. He contacted us under an alias (Chris) with the intention of having Tomme show up from the very beginning.
     
    #35 starrdogg, Jul 2, 2012
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  16. drabmuh

    drabmuh Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2004 Maryland

    Truly awesome. One of the great tasting stories ever.
     
    #36 drabmuh, Jul 2, 2012
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  17. Avalon68

    Avalon68 Initiate (0) Jul 1, 2008 Pennsylvania

    This was a great public relations move. Well played Lost Abbey....well played.
     
    #37 Avalon68, Jul 2, 2012
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  18. djsmith1174

    djsmith1174 Savant (1,015) Aug 21, 2005 Minnesota

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  19. DefenCorps

    DefenCorps Grand Pooh-Bah (4,838) Jan 18, 2007 Oregon
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    Ryan, Gena and Tomme talking Veritas 005 while Spain was busy kicking ass.
     
    #39 DefenCorps, Jul 2, 2012
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  20. Shagtastic

    Shagtastic Initiate (0) Jul 30, 2011 Indiana

    This is awesome. PR move or not this has to be one of the cooler stories I've heard in a long time.

    Sounds like it was a blast!
     
    #40 Shagtastic, Jul 2, 2012
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