The Lost Abbey
Port/Lost Abbey Launches The Hop Concept Brewing
Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey have spent the last 8 years building two unique brands/portfolios. Starting in 2015, expect a third concept – The Hop Concept Brewing.
The Hop Concept Brewing will focus on India Pale Ales, released quarterly.
“The team and I are pumped to create four new hoppy beers, working with hop combinations that we’ve never tried before” said Matt Webster, Lead Brewer for Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey. “IPA’s have historically been a specialty of ours, so the chance to hone our skills even more has all the brewers fired up!”
First up is the Hop Freshener Series, subtitled “Uncomplicated Hoppy Beers from the people who know how to make them.” For each release, the names are the flavors and aroma of the beer. The release lineup for 2015 looks like this:
- Dank and Sticky IPA (February)
- Citrus and Piney IPA (May)
- Lemon and Grassy IPA (August)
- Tropical and Juicy IPA (November)
Each release is quarterly, meant to be purchased and consumed fresh in 22oz bottles, and limited draft. The brewery hopes this new ambitious lineup helps people understand the nuances and flavors of craft beer’s most popular style, IPA.
Look for The Hop Concept Brewing and The Freshener Series across Lost Abbey and Port Brewing’s distribution network starting in February, 2015.
Lost Abbey Announces Veritas 014 Release
Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) will release one of their rarest offering, Veritas 014 at a special event on November 8, 2014.
Veritas 014 is an blended oak aged sour ale with cherries. Veritas will only be available for the 2014 Lost Abbey Barrel Night in San Marcos. Tickets go on sale at 12pm on Monday, October 13th. The $125 dollar ticket gets the holder entry to the evening, and two bottles of Veritas 014. (With the option of buying one more bottle at the event, $40.) Limited to 150 guests.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries, Oak Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Corked & Caged.
Arrival: 11/8/14
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Update 10/13: Tickets sold out to this year’s release in less than 60 seconds…
Lost Abbey Releasing New Tequila Aged Seasonal
The Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing a new offering in their barrel-aged portfolio, Agave Maria Ale.
Agave Maria is a strong ale brewed with agave nectar, and then aged in both Anejo and Reposado barrels for 10 months.
Agave Maria has hints of black pepper, sweet sugar, oatmeal, and oak with an earthy, bitter smoked chocolate on the finish. The base beer, a new Agave strong ale, was created specifically to pair with the spiciness of the Tequila, adding a sweet honey-like quality to the beer.
The artwork was created Sean Dominguez, the brewery’s resident artist. Lost Abbey Agave Maria Ale will be packaged in 375ml corked and caged bottles, and distributed across the brewery’s entire distribution network. Agave Maria will be a spring seasonal after this first release.
Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Agave Nectar. Barrel Aged. Tequila)
Availability: 375ml Bottles, Corked & Caged
Arrival: April, 2014
13.5% ABV
Lost Abbey’s Box Set Tracks, One Last Time
Are you a lucky owner of a Lost Abbey Box Set? If you are, you’ll get an opportunity to reload that bad boy one last time.
Starting at 12 noon PST today, some individual tracks will be available again for purchase.
Track 5 – 3 Bottle Limit
Track 6 – 2 Bottle Limit
Track 7 – 3 Bottle Limit
Track 8 – 2 Bottle Limit
Track 9 – 3 Bottle Limit
Track 10 – 2 Bottle Limit
Track 11 – 3 Bottle Limit
Pickups will begin on November 22nd and last through December 1st.
If you are an original Box Set owner, there will be a wrap party for you (not open to the public) on November 23rd at the brewery.
Lost Abbey’s Tomme on New “Blanc”
The Lost Abbey has released Saison Blanc has been released – a saison with golden raisins and white pepper.
Lost Abbey doing a saison? Shocking right? Sarcasm aside, the above is Saison Blanc, an homage to farmers. We are getting close to harvest season, a physically rough time for those who work the fields, making the grain in your brew. Brewed with golden raisins and white pepper.
Style: Saison (Golden Raisins, White Pepper)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles, Corked & Caged. Draft.
5.5% ABV
People Want Beer! Duck Duck Gooze Sales Crash Server
Today, tickets to purchase Lost Abbey’s Duck Duck Goose were supposed to go on sale. That didn’t go so well. The instant the link went live, the server crashed. Hard. Of course, that annoyed the fans clamoring for the brew. As you can see, they are working on a solution, and no tickets have been sold yet.
Nexternal eCommerce, the online sales solution, was unable to handle the traffic. Both Lost Abbey and Nexternal are working on a fix.
In the meantime, do you see this happening more and more in the craft beer industry? Ticket sales not going well, servers crashing? What do you see as a viable tech solution?
Saison Blanc Coming To Bottles
Lost Abbey doing a saison? Shocking right? Sarcasm aside, the above is Saison Blanc, an homage to farmers. We are getting close to harvest season, a physically rough time for those who work the fields, making the grain in your brew. Brewed with golden raisins and white pepper.
Its honest brutal work out there in the fields. There’s no shade between you and the land needing to be farmed. Harvest time brings longer days spent toiling under the fiery sun as sweat and dust make mud cakes on your face. All day every day. It’s always the same. Been that way for years and it’s not changing anytime soon. Your family has been turning this soil since your daddy was knee high to the grasshoppers and your son will soon learn the importance of this earthen existence as well. Someday, he’ll pass your work ethic on to his son. And the pulse of this land will continue beating. Without families and farms there would be no crops. Without barley there would be no beer. Neither is a world we want to live in. So as you CAREFULLY pop this cork, please pause to reflect on those who reap what they sow enabling, us to have amazing bottles of beer at the end of each day.
Style: Saison (Golden Raisins, White Pepper)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles, Corked & Caged. Draft.
Arrival: September, 2013
5.5% ABV
