Lost Abbey Saints Devotion

A Brett-finished version of our Devotion Ale. Saint’s Devotion is bottle conditioned with brettanomyces to deepen the layers of flavor on our most hop-forward beer from Lost Abbey lineup.

3.7

434 reviews

San Marcos, United States

Community reviews

3.9 750 mL bottle listed as Brett Devo. Shared by Tcon. Thanks! Cloudy bright orange pour with a ton of foam head. Orange fruit, hops, and brett aroma. Super dry, brett throughout, dusty orange finish. Overall unique, and very enjoyable. Good complimenting hops and brett. Solid.

4.0 Bottle from beers of Europe. Great beer. Hazy golden colour with a white aroma yeasty funk fruity, and floral with a touch of bread. Taste light sweet and yeasty, so drinkable. This one with the amazing CHVRCHES, set on TVs from Glasto 2016.

2.7 Bottle a long time ago as part of a blind tasting. Just found the notes. They read as follows: "This looks gross. Murky, no head, looks almost brown. Aroma: citrus, sweetness, candy. Taste is super muted. Dry, and lacking any kind of interesting flavor. Not good." I assume we just had a bad bottle ... will rerate next time a glass ends up in front of me.

3.8 Bottle. Cloudy yellow pour with a fluffy white head. Brett aroma. Brett dominates the taste. Not overly complex but tasty. Average body and mouthfeel. Earlier Rating: 4/10/2013 Total Score: 3.9 Bottle. Hazy yellow pour with a huge white head. Light grassy aromas. Light and fluffy with mellow lemon, biscuit, grass, and mild brett notes. Decent body and balance. Easy drinking and refreshing.

4.1 Bottle at home. Aroma is fruity, apricot, barnyard funk, tart fruits, hops, bready malt, spicy yeast. Flavour is light sweet and bitter with a dry finish. Body is medium. Ridiculously smooth and balanced, typical Lost Abbey quality, great Saison-ish Belgian Ale.

4.0 Aroma: Medium aroma of malts, Belgian yeast, orange, hops and brettanomyces. Appearance: Turbid/opaque golden/amber beer with a medium off-white head. Taste/Palate: Starts medium sweet with malts, Belgian yeast and orange; ends slightly bitter, dry and sour with hops and brettanomyces. Overall: This beer is rather intense, complex and balanced. Has all the aspects a Belgian Ale needs to have, but with mire hops. The Lost Abbey always manages to perfectly balance their beers.

2.8 Just a flat bottle i Hope. No aroma but little hint of sweet per, some acidity but not so strong. Flavour of some pear, but very light and a little punch of green bitterness like fresshy Grass. Thin body, watery mouthfeel, not a good one for sure.

4.0 12.7 oz corked and caged bottle poured into a Spiegelau tulip. 2013 vintage at 6.66% ABV. Hazy bright golden orange with half a finger of off-white head. Aromas of Brett and funk, tropical and stone fruit, herbs. Tastes of earthy funk, Brett, light tropical and stone fruit, herbs. Medium-light body with a very dry finish. Pretty nice.

3.3 Clear golden color with a small off-white head fading away. Aroma has a lot of farmhouse funk, really earthy. Taste is quite simple compared to the aroma. It’s somehow earthy, with strong olive notes but not much else. Slightly bitter on the aftertaste but not really dry. Not bad but the beer lacks some flavors and complexity. Also the carbonation is almost missing.

2.9 Pours a very cloudy, pale golden orange color with visible carbonation bubbling up and a two finger pillowy white head that sticks around forever. Really good retention only slowly fading into a lasting cap. Looks to be over carbonated. Prominent musty brett aroma with farmhouse yeast, grass, straw and light fruit. Very earthy and funky with wild bugs overpowering almost everything else. There’s a touch of floral hops and light fruit but the brett dominates. Medium body and very over carbonated taking away from the mouthfeel and flavor. Lots of dry, musty funk with the brett overpowering almost everything enjoyable about the base beer. Nice to have a little of this complimenting the farmhouse yeast but it’s way too strong for my liking. Decent amount of bread/yeast flavor underneath along with grass, straw, faint peppery spice and light fruit. Once the palate adjusts to strong brett presence, the yeast, spice, apple, pear and alcohol flavors come out. Not a bad beer but overcarbed and a bit one dimensional.

3.1 Aroma: Sour, yeast, floral and light citrus. Palate: Light body. Flavor: Sour, bitter, Finishes with a long, mild bitterness on the back of the tongue. Comment: Bland, a bit simple at this point.

2.8 2013 bottle - did I store too long? nice aroma; hazy orange pour. Taste was mild and really not pleasing; not nasty just not something I want to drink. Grassy funk; drying toward end some bitterness and I got a peppery spice also. meh

3.0 Cloudy orange color with foam layer. The smell is malty sourish with a milky touch (on second smell: ahoi brause). The taste is super mild with a silky mouth feeling, wrong yeast notes and spicy peppery parts. The aftertaste is calm and mild. My problem with this beer is, that this is too mild and it looses a lot of intensity. This beer might be edgy, but is cut back to much. I am a bit disappointed.

3.8 Vintage 2013. Pops hugely when opening, hazy orange color with huge white head. Aroma is fresh, bretty, grapes, lemony. Taste is lemony, a bit biscuity malts, lemon zests, spicy yeasts. Refreshing and well-balanced. I like it, feels like a nice Saison.

3.1 Bottle. Fruity aroma with spices, yeast funkiness and tropical fruits. In taste similar, with more grapes in flavour. Low body, dry and crisp with low bitterness and bretts in the finish. Easy drinkable, nice.

4.2 Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. A hazy golden coloured beer that pours with a huge rocky white head. It has a spicy lemon and vanilla flavour with gentle barnyard and biscuit notes followed by a zesty herbal and citrus finish. Excellent!

3.3 Bottle. Sharp, almost smoky, sort of funk, burnt rubber. Medium gold straw color. Thin fruity initial, light Brett, harsh funky fruitiness in mid palate, and then a drop off in flavors and it flattens. Interesting but kind of disappointing for what should be a special brew. Flavors thin out too quickly and the harsh, phenolic notes detract in a beer that is this light bodied.

3.5 Bottle. Funky brett nose, a bit lactic, peaches,grapefruit. Orange-gold, hazy, with lace. Very funky flavor, harsh, hay, thinner. Very disappointing flavor.

3.1 Grumlig gyllene huve. Små bubblor. Dåligt med skum. Humlig smak(typiskt USA) & massa brettajäst. En viss trevlig maltsötma infinner sig. Medelfyllig kropp. Tyvärr är doften i just denna flasköl väldigt liten. Känner en viss bretta.

3.3 Bottle from brewdog pours hazy pale blonde with dense white head. Typical weisse-like notes, Spicey yeast esters on nose, full bodied, spritzy carbonation, slightly tart with some developing Brett character but very subtle. Only 6 months old at the moment, needed longer.

4.5 Excellent spicy and balanced banana aroma. Flavor of some breads yeast and light Brett. Some Belgian Candy sugar and very slight banana nut in flavor as well. Woody finish.

3.9 Bottle. Pours hazy orange with big frothy brett head which last a long time. Aroma is really juicy. Only slight yeast, spices, tropical fruits and pineapple. Some fruity funk in there. Some bread grains as well. Taste is similar to the nose. Juicy grapes and fruity yeast. Some citrus and bretty grape as well as slight grains. High carbonation and super dry and crisp mouthfeel. Slight spicy finish. Really drinkable!

3.9 75cl bottle at home. Almost transparant golden colour, white foamy head. Belgian yeasty banana, some spiciness and nice creamy malts reminiscent of a (light) Belgian triple, faint citrus hoppy notes and a very light hint of brett funk, without real acidity. Very well balanced. Low carbonation, medium body. Expected some more brett tones from this.

3.7 1 pint 9.4 fl oz bottle. Golden amber colour, frothy white foam head and aroma of fruity, banana, yeast, funky. Taste is sourish with malt caramel, grain, apricot fruity, funk and spicey earthy pithy bitterness. Light to medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry lingering bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.

4.0 Une couche de mousse moyenne mais durable se pose sur une bière aux teintes orangées et très marécageuse. Un bouquet à la fois fruité où des oranges sont notamment détectées, et funky titille les sens. Cette sensation fruitée est décuplée en bouche; les mandarines, tangerines et oranges sanguines sont jumelées à un aspect sauvage léger, mais bien assumé. La carbonatation est un peu trop intense, à mon avis, mais n’empêche que cette bière, même si la bouteille datait un peu, est superbe.

3.7 Bottle 37,5cl / Botella 37,5cl. @ Maquila Bar. A: Light amber / Ambar claro. T/S: Yeast, sour, slightly fruity / Levadura, agrio, ligeramente afrutado.

3.3 Bottle at Seattle Share. Part of the blind brett saison tasting. Pretty still, small head. Cloudy orange, juicy sour. odd yeasty note. Grapefruit, floaties. Dry finish. Ok.

3.3 Color yellow with a lot of carbonation some bitterness but at a low level some acidity. Not too fruity and not so much flavor. Not so much else than the brett.

3.4 Really bubbly dark yellow pour with swirls of white on top. Aroma of sweet berries, grapes, pert estery funk, sweet fresh cut hay. Lively carbonation, velvett mouthfeel, dry finish. Flavors of straw, grain, lemon peel, barnyard funk, soapy yeast maybe. Overall kind of light, straightforward funk, bitter finish.

4.7 Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a tulip glass. Aroma- Has a strong fruit aroma, very pleasing. Appearance- this is a murky orange color with a small white head. looks great Taste- the fruit flavor really comes through, very nice Palate- A medium bodied beer with moderate to heavy carbonation has a great crisp feel. Overall- A wonderful beer, must try.