Lost Abbey Veritas 004
A blend of Yellow Bus, Duck Duck Gooze, and Cuvee de Tomme.
4.3
185 reviews
San Marcos, United States
Community reviews
Bottle at Sloshfest. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of acid, funk, lemon, light floral sweetness, light fruity, apricot. Flavour is still quite sour, but more mellow and rounded off than in the 008, lemon, funk, light peppery, light acidburn, floral, rather sour finish. More enjoyable than the 008, but still way too sour for me.
Tart, elegant. Cherry, lemon, oak, sourness. Not super funky or sour. But complex and smooth.
Notes from my backlog: Hazy golden pour with a white head. Funky aroma- citric, leathery, mild acetone notes, grapefruit, claussenii funk. Crisp tart body. Citric, lemony, leathery funk, barnyard, a touch of biscuity malt nuance as it warms under the big acidity. Awesome stuff.
As I popped the cork on this, the aroma of peach, summer stone fruit, and sourness exploded. Golden/peach pour with no head. Flavor is amazing. Tart peach flesh, lactic and acetic acid fade slowly into a light cherry flavor. The sourness builds a little bit by the end of my glass, but is never out of balance with the intense sour peach goodness. The subtle cherry flavor after the peach is what sets this American wild above all others. Carbonation was a little low, but nothing to complain about. This is the best American wild that I have ever had, and overall a true masterpiece.
Bottle shared at DLD 2012. Tasted right behind the 003 and blew my mind how good both of these beers were and how radically different they were. Excellent level of tartness; right up to the line of acidic with stepping too far over. Mouth watering goodness. Super glad I got to try this.
Thanks to Matt for generously providing this to our Sunday mini-tasting. Pours a flat peach in color, with no head whatsoever on the pour. Nose is comprised of stone fruit, peach in particular, and a decent amount of vinegar. There is also a light touch of cinnamon or some spice. This reminds me of Flaming Fury a little bit. The vinegar character is almost non-existent in the flavor, instead it’s just big, puckering peach goodness. The sourness starts out subtle and builds. Light to moderate mouthfeel, moderate to heavy acidity, some light carbonation presence, and a long, pleasant finish. Lives up to the hype it receives, one of the best American wilds I have ever had. In fact, I’m hard pressed to think of many more that I enjoy more than it. Thanks for busting this out Matt!
Nose on this beer is lovely - tart lemon, subtle peach, sharp "lost abbey" yeast. Taste follows - subtle, complex, tart and fruity. Mix if acetic and lactic acid. Pours a slightly murky bright yellow with limited head. Softly carbed, light body. Lovely, lovely beer.
Sampled this at a sour tasting that Tomme Arthur showed up at out of the blue. This beer poured an opaque, vibrant yellow-orange color with absolutely no head despite there being plenty of carbonation. There were notes of slightly tart peaches, sweet notes that were pretty fun on the tongue. Nice tart finish. This was pretty darn enjoyable. So glad to try this one.
served in a lost abbey stemmed glass. pours a slightly orange and hazy yellow. very light carbonation and head. light retention. scent was a bit subtle. light oak and lemon with a faint bit of citrus. very zesty. the taste.. moderate sourness. lots of citrus. a very nice complex blend of apricot, peach, lemon, red grape, and light oak. this was a lot more simple than i had expected, yet very perfect as far as sourness to fruit and flavor blend. nice moderate carbonation, bit of zest on the tongue. nice light dryness with a hint of sweetness. nice sour zing on the tongue to finish this off. ok.. this is good. is it whale like? hell, yeah. the apricot flavor is in it is just amazing. nothing to overpowering. Reviewed on: 12-12-2010
Consumed with all ten Veritas beers on April 14, 2012. Shared by GRG1313. Thank you Richard!
This was still a standout beer for me, even among the world’s best lambics and wild ales. A phenomenal beer. One of the best sour ales ever brewed in the United States.
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Original review: 21 March 2011
Bottle shared by ygtbsm94. Thanks Brad! Served side by side with Veritas 006. Awesome? Indeed.
The beer appears hazy and straw yellow in color. A few pockets of bubbles cling together tightly, resembling suspended grape bunches. The beer has a thin and wispy head that fades to virtually nothing after a few minutes.
Like the Veritas 006, the aroma here is simply world class, albeit an entirely different beer than the 006. I can really pick out the Duck Duck Gooze in the nose, as the scent offers a prominent dosage of gueuze. Other notable scents include funk, subtle barrels (oak), hay, and a light helping of tart fruit.
Incredibly wonderful, complex, and delicious. The beer is slightly tannic and finishes with a splendid acetic bite. Peaches emerge more in the taste than in the olfactory senses. This must be the elusive Yellow Bus flavor.
The feel is medium / thin bodied with a wonderful, puckering finish. Complex and intriguing, I could sip this gem all night long.
Overall, one of the best sour / wild ales I have ever had and one of the best beers I have yet to enjoy, regardless of style.
Bottle shared 12-2-11 thanks to Matt! Pours nearly still with a small amount of bubbles around the edge. Appearance is golden straw with a slight haziness. Smell is Belgian yeast, dry malt and wood, vanilla & oak, the tiniest bit of sharp sourness. Taste is well rounded sourness composed of apple, cider, pear, and geuze. Nice dry and oaky finish. It’s pretty sour but accompanied by some fruit notes and well rounded overall.
little bit of harsh acetic in there but balanced with subtle fruit notes, sour peach, with clean and lasting tart.
Small sample out of the bottle. Thanks to Bill for sharing this funky treat before the party. Poured a hazy, glowing, golden color. Didnt see much lacing in the glass. Aroma is lemon dominate from the DDG, but as it warms tons of other notes come out like oak, peach, tart horseblanket, and apples. Taste is a perfectly wrapped combination of lemon tart, buttery oak, vinegar, and various other dried fruits. Smooth as silk palate. Another knockout sour from Abbey.
I fell in love with the aroma of this beer. A nice amount of funk, sourness, and tartness here. A tad bit more than the usual American Wild Ale. Oak comes though nicely for a nice deep aroma. Lemon, white grapes, grass, and peaches. This is a top notch aroma when it comes to these kind of beer and is still holding up quite nicely. I’m sure it would of been a tad bit lighter in funk and sourness and had more fruit aromas if I had tried it earlier down the road but still frigging amazing.
Up front this beer is nice and sour but I thought Duck Duck Gooze was more tart. It was definitely easier to drink then DDG. Up front the sourness, tartness, and barnyard funk rule. Then layer two comes in. The lovely lemon, grapes, apple, and peaches. The fruitness takes over the tartness and then the oak comes though and sits on the tongue. This is just a lovely beer. Probably overtakes any American Wild Ale I have ever had. Hands down. It’s sour without destroying the palette.
Mouthfeel is top notch. Medium to full bodied. Coats the tongue and just goes down smooth as hell.
Best American Wild Ale I’ve ever had. Close behind is Beatificaton, Isabelle, and Temptation.
[place holder rating- notes backlog] Tried twice at Lost Abbey off the vintage bottle list. Glowing gold, hazy pour like peach juice. Small head formation. Rich, juicy citrus aroma with fresh peach and mild funk. Taste is very light and quenching with no biting sourness. Beautiful, refreshing summer beer. A shame it is no rare and now prohibitively expensive.
Bottle. The clearest golden pour I have ever seen, with a small white head. You can definitely pick up the Yellow Bus and the DDG in the nose. Tart, but not overly so, refreshing, and super clean. What a fantastically put together blend. All kinds of wonderful funk and barnyard notes that are softened by delicious peach and sour cherry undercurrent. A complex, clean, masterful ale. Lives up to all the hype. Simply amazing.....
Big thanks to Matt for sharing this rare and amazing beer with me. Pours a crystal clear goldenrod yellow. Nose is funky and acidic with some barnyard, but also some noticable stone fruit character. Flavor is sour but not overly so. full bodied with balanced sour and fruit character. Finishes with huge peach, apricot and apple notes. Damn what a beer. One of the best Lost Abbey sours I have had. Again, major thanks to 50belair for sharing this gem.
Had this back to back with Yellow Bus. The Veritas 004 is the better beer.
A: Slightly hazy yellow-orange body. Thin whitish skim on top that stays throughout. Slightest bits of lacing.
S: Clean, popping citric notes with peach, lemons, orange, and dragon fruit taking center stage. Just the slightest hints of funk and must.
T: Like the nose, this is incredible vibrant with lots of fruit in initial sips. The peoch notes are not as assertive as in the nose as lemon-like notes move up a bit.
M: Medium carbonation. Clean, crisp, sour finish. Well-defined and refreshing.
O: Up there amongst the best american wild ales ever made.
A couple glasses on tap at Sean’s 30th Birthday. Booya! Almost missed out too. Rating 2400 to boot! Pours a murky glowing lively golden orange hue, a big frothy bright white head stays as a solid film, laces well. A good murky glow. Striking. Aromas are a very nice sour peach essence, yogurt, sour lactic acid, touches of funky bread, straw, dry brettanomyces, touches of funk, and more straw. Decent wet oak, a good healthy yogurt lacto essence. Initial is lively and carbonated, moderate sourness grows and coats the palate with sour peaches, lemons, yogurt. Touches of vinegar, potent growing in waves as the sour peach and lemons assert themselves. Wet oak, yogurty lactic acid. Peaches grow in waves. Into the finish it cleans up a touch, remaining sour and yogurty, some bready malts, spritzy carbonation provides synergy overall. Really nice. Could drink this by the barrel. A couple drafts here did the job though. An honor to try and truly worth the hype. Aroma is nice, but the beer itself gets really good on taste and plays really well on the palate. I bet this popped even more a year or two ago. Still, a winner.
From 03/19/11 notes. Huge thanks to ygtbsm94 for sharing this one; thanks Brad! Sampled side by side with Veritas 006, served in a tulip.
a - Pours a clear bright yellow-orange color with light carbonation evident and no real carbonation.
s - Smells of sour citrus fruits, lemon, light funk, oak, and some grapefruit. The smell is not overly funky, but a nice level of funk and tart lemon/citrus. Very nice.
t - Tastes of sour fruits, lemon zest, peach, wood/oak, grapfruit, citrus hops, white wine. Again, not too much funk but more sour/tartness than the smell. A step up, pretty amazing taste.
m - Light body and moderate carbonation. Tart up front with a crisp finish.
d - Overall this was an amazing sour; one of the best I’ve had. It was very different from the 006 but both were amazing. This had more citrus and peach to it, while I found the 006 to have more raspberry and grapes to it. I also found the 006 much for tart, which I really enjoyed. None the less an awesome beer I would love to have again.
Bottle provided by Brad in a side by side with V006, wow, what an experience.
Served in a wine glass because I don’t have a Lost Abbey wine glass....yet.
Beer is yellow and completely hazy (I got the bottom so I don’t know if that is normal). Thin, nearly absent head, no lacing, moderate to low carbonation.
Beer kind of smells like lemons, grass, oak, mild funk, some acetic, mild lactic in the nose. I like it.
Beer has an odd initial flavor I think. It tastes a lot like lemon peels at first, this gives way to a mild tannic flavor and some vinous notes of grapes and mild acetic brightness. The lactic presence is lower than I expected. The finish is nice too, a very drinkable beer. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Serving type: bottle
The beer pours a lightly carbonated murky gold with a hint of orange. The heads bubbles up from underneath but only comes up about a half a finger but then is gone way to quickly.
The aroma is pretty light for a wild especially considering its components which alone are a bit stronger. What you do get is plain sourness, not mold or horse blanket, just plain ol sourness.
The taste is much stronger than the aroma, it starts our pretty sweet but quickly provides a very sour punch, light horse blanket mixed in with a little leather and metal at the end. Its surprinsgly smooth and complex.
The feel is very nice leaving a very nice aftertaste and very dry feel.
For a wild this is incredibly drinkable.
Overall, this is a very good wild, nice blending in deed. I’ve never had yellow bus, but I’ve had duck duck and cuvee de tomme, and the parts of duck and I’m assuming yellow bus are better alone than the sum of this beer. Not saying it isn’t great, but not outstanding. I’d like the aroma to be stronger and a bit more funk to make this truly special
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small fast disappearing off-white head. Has a fruity sour tart funky citrus aroma. Sour tart funky citrus flavor. Has a sour tart funky woody citrus finish with hints of barnyard.
Very nice sour with smells of barnyard aromas, Brett, lemon zest, and oak. Taste is amazing, sour citrus, sour apple, peach, and some hay. Very well balanced not overly acidic. This was a real treat and recommend it to anyone. Bring in the bus!
Bottle. 25.4 oz. Split with James and Mr. Dallas. What an incredible gem of a beer to cap a wild, wonderful session with my best buddies. Another huge thank you to James for his generoisty in sharing this bottle with me. It was a hell of a send off. Anyway, the beer pours a nearly opaque lemon hay yellow with a flat, reflective surface. No head and no lacing. The nose is simply outstanding; so very complex and nuanced. Pure lemon juice mixes with soap suds, fresh, juicy peaches, orange rinds, grapefruits, slight buttery and oaky notes, sublte cherries and honeysuckle. Meidum bodied with an insanely full, tongue-coatingly sticky mouthfeel. Sharp, rich, biting sourness spreads out and warms the tongue, leaveing fresh floral and citrusy flavors in the finish, as well as lovely traces of the notorious peaches from Yellow Bus. This is a special beer, through and through, and I was priveleged to have had a share. Thanks Dad! Cheers.
Bottle with james and pattay. We are touching the stars tonight. A hazy yellow pour with absolutely not lacing or head. Smell is a sour sweet with some peach overtones. Taste is a buttery sweet with peach overtones. taste is very sour but sweet and very rounded. delicious and fufilling. again, a thousand thank you’s to james.
Bottle split with Pat and Dallas. Pours a bright orange body with beautiful haze and no head, no lacing. Aroma is peach, tart, and funk. Mouthfeel is perfect. Notes of peach, apricot, funky sour, tart, oak, cherry and lemon. One of the greatest sours Ive ever had.
Bottle at LA. Rating #141. Hazy dark straw yellow. Very aromatic funkiness, I could smell it from across the room. Very tart and extremely dry and yet mouth watering, a very wonderful beer. (1470)
We’re walking through the roll up door at Lost Abbey, on our way to try to get Tomme to open a Yellow Bus with us when Mikes friend offers this up to us. Not really even through the door opening at this point. Hazy golden with swirly head/lace. Lots of citrus and tart funkiness and sharp salivation sucking tart. Lovely and pungent but smooth and dry.
Bottled. Thanks Marsiblursi
Clear golden colour with low foam. Smokey phenols in aroma with wood in the background. Little oaky vanilla, little Brett which increases when the liquid slowly warms up. Oak comes first in flavour, then Brett with sorbet freshness. Mouthfeel is lively. There are tropical fruits in a jucy soft mouthfeel. A lactic acidic finish lasts long.