Topic Archives: Lost Abbey Ultimate Box Set Series
Lost Abbey Meets Iron Maiden In August Box Set Release
It’s August. That means the 8th release in The Lost Abbey’s Ultimate Box Set Series will be released. Each beer is a blend, or a one time creation, with a metal overtone. Track #8 is a bourbon barrel version of Judgement Day. (The base beer for Lost Abbey’s Cuvee de Tomme.) The rocking didn’t stop there.
The conversations turned to Oatmeal Raisin cookies and the essence of a freshly baked treat. So we added some cinnamon sticks to the barrels and threw in some dried chiles as well.
The result is sure to be big.Judgement Day is a quadrupel brewed with raisins. Bourbon, cinnamon, and chilies? Sold. You’ll only get this one at Lost Abbey (to drink on site) on August 18, 2012. What’s in the name? Track #8 is named for Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast.”
Style: Quadrupel (w/ Raisins, Cinnamon, Chilies, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. One time release
13.7% ABV
Lost Abbey Gives Birth To The Devil with Track 7
It’s July which means time for another Lost Abbey Ultimate Box Set Release. Track 7 is inspired by INXS’s 1988 hit “The Devil Inside.” So what beer matches this little bundle of evil? A remix of the brewery’s Veritas 006, a wild ale. The crew took that beer, and added raspberries, cherries and Mandarin orange zest. This baby arrives July 21, 2012. Sold only at the brewery, for consumption on site only.
It is a remix of our classic Veritas 006 aka sangria. We have raspberry and cherry providing the bulk of the fruit texture over a sour yellow base beer. To this we also added some orange peel and freshly zested mandarin orange zest as well. The beer finishes with a nice tannic finish and is truly a refreshing riff on a Lost Abbey classic.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Raspberries, Cherries, Orange Zest, Oak Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Brewery only
8.12% ABV
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Enjoy this little blast from 80’s video past…
Lost Abbey Takes The Highway To Hell with Track #6
The sixth entry in Lost Abbey’s Ultimate Box Set releases Saturday. An ode to AC/DC’s 1979 hit Highway To Hell. Track #6 is a blend of 2009 Bourbon Angel’s Share, and Brandy Barrel Aged Serpent’s Stout. This hellish blend clocks in at 14.3% ABV.
Why is this blend unique? Well, it’s reversed.
For the past two years The Lost Abbey has released a winter barrel aged blended strong ale. This amazing blend of beer has focused on a marriage between Bourbon Barrel Aged Serpents Stout and Brandy Barrel Aged Angel’s Share. We believe it’s one of the most amazing barrel releases we do each fall.
But in the spirit of old recordings and records I started thinking what would happen if we played this one in reverse? Would we hear the Demon himself on the record? So with that, we flipped the blend on its ears and spun it backwards. The result is a blend of Brandy Barrel Aged Serpent’s Stout and some Bourbon Barrel Aged Angel’s Share.
It’s still an epic struggle between good and evil, only this time we slowed it down and played it in reverse.
Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Brewery release only
Arrival: 6/16/12
14.3% ABV
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Sneeky Peeky: Lost Abbey Track #6 [Video]
Track #6 is “reverse” Deliverance (Brandy Angel’s Share, Bourbon Serpent’s Stout). This reverse beer known now as “Track #6” is a blend Angel’s Share aged in bourbon (2009!) and brandy barrel aged Serpent’s Stout. Releases June 16th, 2012
14.4% ABV
Lost Abbey’s Rocks Mötley Crüe In Track #5
Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing a series of musically-themed beers this year. Once a month, the beer wizards at Lost Abbey a new rock-related concoction never seen before. Track #5 “Shout At The Devil.” Don’t go looking for this in stores, you can only buy this at the brewery. (And can only drink it there too.) #5 is a blend of Red Poppy & Framboise de Amorosa. Shout At The Devil is Mötley Crüe’s second album.
Track 5 is a blend of two of our best fruited sour beers. An equal blend of Red Poppy and Framboise de Amorosa. Once the beers were blended we added additional fruit and let them rest in another set of French Oak barrels. The aroma is an explosion of red wine and oak notes. A jammy fruit presence dominates the mid-palate of the beer before a bracing tannin-laced dryness pervades the finish.
All told an exceptionally complex marriage between fruit, oak, and red wine expressions.
Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged, w/ raspberries & cherries)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Brewery release only.
Arrival: 5/19/12
7.7% ABV
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Lost Abbey Track #5 Intro [Video]
Lost Abbey’s Track #5 drops in May.
Lost Abbey’s “Track #4” Releases Saturday
The Lost Abbey will release Track #4 “Sympathy For The Devil,” the most recent release in series of musical releases this year. (Click here for the Track List thus far.)
What is Track #4?
Each of the the three predecessors have been various blends of barrels, and Lost Abbey beers, culminating a beer meets rock symphony that melts your face off. (Too much?) The blend for Track #4 starts with two barrels from one of the base components of 2011’s Veritas 009 (Sour Ale), and two barrels of Port Hot Rocks (Aged in red wine w/ brett). Blend it all together and you have Track #4. The art pays homage to The Rolling Stone’s Sympathy For The Devil, released in 1968. Musical refresher course in the video below…
Liner Notes:
Another epic blend of beers not widely seen out side our tasting bar. The base for Track #4 starts off as two freshly emptied barrels which were to be part of our Veritas 009 blend. To these barrels we have married two French Oak red wine barrels that have been harboring Hot Rocks Lager for nearly two years. The base beer sports a deep black color with crimson highlights. Flavors of leather, tobacco and a wine like jammy quality were developed as the base beer.
The addition of Hot Rocks Lager aged in Wine barrels brings a strain of Brettanomyces not normally found in our beers (wine strain we found in the barrels as we did not inoculate them here at the brewery). As is our hope for all these blends, the sum of all the parts has yielded great results. Perhaps one of the more subtle yet harmonious blends to date for our brewers, this one promises to deliver another great Lost Abbey experience.
Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged, w/ Cherries)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. (Consumed on site only) $15/bottle.
11.33% ABV
Note: Framboise de Amorosa releases the same day. Check out Lost Abbey’s notes on the release if you’re going.