Lost Abbey Veritas 009

Lost Abbey Veritas 009

Veritas 009 is a substantial departure from earlier members of The Lost Abbey’s small batch experimental program, which were generally sour beers aged in French oak barrels for 12 to 15 months. Begun in late 2007 as dark base beer, it was sent to freshly emptied bourbon barrels from Kentucky’s Heaven Hill Distilleries. The beer aged for 15 months before it was moved into French oak barrels previously used for wine (primarily Syrah). Sour cherries were added and the beer was left to rest for another year and three months. Finally, in mid-2010, it was pulled from the barrels, blended, bottled and sent off to condition for an additional 11 months.
3.7
155 reviews
San Marcos, United States

Community reviews

3.3 A dark brown ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with light acidity, barrel notes, woody character, licorice, nice. In mouth, a super tart ale with loads of lactic acid, Epsom salts, burned Caramel, OK. Bottle at 2014 Ottawa Xmas gathering.
4.0 Bottle. Thanks Hallinghansen. Pours pitch-black with no real head. Aroma has blackberries, grapes, raisins, oak, overripe apples, chocolate. Low carbonation, fat and oily mouthfeel. Flavour has raisins, oak, plums, tartness, cherries, dry, softly vinious, toasted caramel. Port, oak, light red wine.
2.0 Bottle courtesy of GT2, thanks! Black, flat. Aroma of balsamic vinegar. Taste is similar, with a bit of salt. Couldn’t finish it.
4.0 Enjoyed with my good friend Harold for his going away party. The aromas are big time vinegar, red wine, chocolate, and big oak. Flavor is mainly vinous notes with some red fruits, red wine, a hint of chocolate, vanilla, and a good raw barrel note. This was a heavy and densely flavored beer. Unique and enjoyable. I liked it. I doubt I could drink more a glass at one sitting though.
3.6 Bottle A: Dark red. No carb. Lacing. N: Cherry, acetone, caramel, leather, tobacco, wine grape, bread. T: Sweet and sour. M: Prickly, sticky, heavy. O: Doing pretty well. A sweet sour concoction that Cascade could learn from.
3.8 Bottle @ tasting, courtesy of kermis. Pours a black beer without any head on top. Aroma has vinegar touches, lots of tart and some woody notes as well. Flavor is very sour, refreshing, lots of wood and booze. Very dry mouthfeel, almost no carbonation detected though. Aftertaste is short, dry and sour again. Quite nice to drink and refresh the palate after two monstrous beers.
3.9 Bottle shared. Pours dark brown with no head. Aroma of overripe slightly tart dark fruit, vanilla, wood, light vinegar. Flavour is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy sour. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
3.6 Bomber shared. No head or carbonation. Clear deep burgundy pour. Smooth sourness. A decent sour.
4.2 Pours almost black with no head. Aromas are sherry, grapes, raisins, chocolate. Sour chocolate covered flavors is what this tastes like. vinous. Awesome.
3.0 Intense, complex monster of a beer that ALMOST gets to a level of greatness. Very low carbonation, big surprise. Nose has heavy bourbon but also tart cherry and a touch of acetone. The flavors move through a bunch of phases, opens with a bourbon roasty rich character like Bourbonic Plague, then gets right into tart cherry like a Cuvee de Tomme, but the finish is INTENSELY BURNING DEATH RAY. Just really fucking sour, with a vineous character. A shame.
3.7 Nostrils: plum, boose, oak, paper, lightly sour, some sort of red wine, oaky, grapes. Yap: sour cherry, oak, tasty vinegar, tart tart, lemon, very woody, very yummo.
4.2 Bottle to tulip Sour cherry, raisin, grape, oak, and vanilla. Deep reddish black, no head. Puckering sour, cherry, grape, vinous, wine. Wow. I could give this to a wine drinker and they’d have no clue that it’s a beer.
4.3 Bottle - Vintage 2011 - Sour cherry, chocolate, tobacco and vinous with some barrel. Jet black with no head. Huge wine notes, chocolate, sourness and oak. So complex, that every minute I get something different. I may now be a Lost Abbey fan.
4.2 Bottle. Dark black oil like pour. Aroma - complex aroma, sour cherries, oak, some bourbon. No head to speak of, taste - very little carbonation (almost none) wine like notes, vinous, sour fruit character, very complex. Really intersting beer.
3.8 Bottle shared at Dave’s tasting. Pours black with a bit of a head to it. Very pleasant aroma that is mildly sour with oak, red wine vinegar, sour cherry, and vanilla. The flavor is sour, more sour than the aroma suggests. There is a multitude of flavor components that I can pick out but they never really come together to form a single cohesive structure. There’s red wine vinegar, sour cherry, vanilla, oak, and caramel all present. I was very glad that I was able to sample this beer and thank you to whoever brought it!
3.9 750 ml corked and caged bottle shared with brenn79. Thanks for the trade, Alen! Ugly black beer with no head. Aroma is astringent and consists of vinegar, dark fruits, almonds, wood, raisins, paint thinner. Taste is sour (8/10 on a sour scale) with a tannic savoriness that grips the sides of the tongue like a vice; lots of dark fruit notes. Carbonation is nil, full body, oily texture. Interesting.
3.9 750 ml bottle, shared with Poisoneddwarf- Pours completely flat looking with a very dark red to black color. Aroma is strong in oak, bourbon, cherries, kind of spicy, pepper. The taste is more sour ale thankfully, mildly tart and dry, cherries and plums, oak, bourbon in the finish mostly. Body is medium and carbonation is massively low, but honestly that doesn’t bother me too much. Usually I prefer my beers more carbonated, but there is no denying this beers quality and drinkability. This is a beer that I am very glad I tried, but I don’t think I would ever buy another bottle.
2.8 Bottle courtesy of pantanap @ the Loineshawn wedding. Pours dark, basically a black color... perfectly still. The nose is balsamic vinegar coca, paper, & some light earthy funkiness. The flavor is cardboard-y, with a bunch of nice red wine flavor, both bright red grape & tannic characteristics play well together here. It’s plenty boozy and vinegary as well, the tartness is nice & it’s plenty sour. Many aspects of this are really very pleasant, and maybe there is some bottle variation, but this one was oxidized & acetic to the point where a lot of those really fantastic flavors were muddled. I really like what the idea behind this beer, but the bottle I tried wasn’t so great.
4.0 Bottle kindly saved and shared by gunnar. Clear deep mahogany body verging on black and headless. Lovely and inviting boozy prune port and barrel notes fill the nostrils. Full bodied, flat and syrupy texture. Delicious fruity and acidic with pungent raisin flavor and a fitting alco warmth. The acidity adds momentum to the swallowing sensation.
2.9 750 ml corked bottle, kindly shared by gunnar. ABV is 8.0%. Black colour, no head whatsoever. Intense sourish aroma, notes of brettanomyces, lemons and sour cherries, on a background of roasty notes. Intense and sour very rough flavour, lemony and woody. Too sour and rough for me, causes spasms in my tastebud and face muscles.
2.7 Flaske hos Ole Anders juni-13: ikke antydning til skum, helt flat. Lyset greier ikke å trenge igjennom. Intens vinøs aroma. Første slurken snerper og det varmer straks i magen. Engelsk old strong ale blandet med kirsebær? Balsamicoeddik? Jeg blir ikke umiddelbart sjarmert. Veritas - intet sannhetsserum her, selv etter flere injeksjoner.
3.0 Bottle at local tasting. Pours pitch black, no head at all. Aroma is light sour, bourbon,cocoa and vanilla. Taste is astringent sourish, over the top, lots of oak and vinegar, balsamico mouthfeel, interesting but a bit too odd.
3.1 Bottle shared by TheAlum, thanks Adam. Pours almost black with some off-white head. Bourbon on the nose, didn’t get a ton of sour/wild from this.
3.6 750 ml bottle opened at the Kentucky Brunch Release (Decorah, IA). Don’t remember where I got this bottle. Pours a rich deep brownish hue, good darker near opaque qualites in the body. Some brownish copper glow on the far edges. Frothy tannish head atop dies to a film, laces small. Aromas are sour cherries, huge oak presence, some oxidation, gentle red wine and faint whiskey. A bit soupy, funky, some good brett, Lacto qualities, and carmelized and gentle sweet malts. A big brooding beer put through the oak barrel ringer. Initial is medium bodied, thinner and more put through the ringer than expected. Good red wine, cherryskins, and funk. Good huge red wine presence, tartness, cherries. Very smooth, well aged. Red wine, gentle funk, firm lactic presence as we move on. Some toasty and biscuity malts, a touch of sweetness. The cherries really come through as it warms, sour and tannic, good big red wine presence. Backend is tannic, cherry, almost a bit artificial. The beer is well oaked, dark yet huge oak and red wine presence. The whiskey element on the nose really gets covered up in the beer itself. Finish is big cherry, a bit brash and tannic at times but highly smooth at others. An odd beer. But pretty nice at times. Nose wasn’t great.
4.0 Bottle share at KBBS day, dark brown pour with a tan head. Aroma of cherry, barrel and tobacco. Taste is cherry and chocolate with a bunch of tannins coming through, solid!
4.0 Bottle 750ml. corked. ABV: 8.0%. Clear medium black colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, wood - oak, soy sauce, dark fruit, chocolate malt. Flavour is heavy sweet, light acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, tart, raisin, wood - oak, dark fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20130225]
3.7 pitch dark, almost no head. roasted malty aroma, fruity, bretty. falvor is bretty, woody, dark fruits, citrussy, pretty complex, quite sweet, big contrast to the aroma.
3.4 Poured into LA tekku Appearance- jet black with no head or carbonation.. flat Nose- dark fruit, oak, sweet bourbon and wine Flavor- a lot of complexity in this glass, thats for sure. Depth of bourbon and grape skin, sweetness almost caramel esc with a warm finish like taking a shot of fine bourbon(we had a shot of pappy 20 after this glass)
3.6 Bottle. Black with no head. Aroma is vinous with notes of vintage sherry, prunes, oak, licorice, Taste is near heavy sweet, light+ salty, medium sour. Medium+ body, oily/sticky texture, near flat carbonation. Sweet and sour vinous finish. Weird, but very interesting.
3.7 Botella. Deep dark brown colour, small beige head. Sweet dark fruity woody bourbon malty aroma. Good mouthfeel. Flavour: sweet, plenty of dark fruit, caramel and woody bourbon along with spices, roasty like in the sweet finish. Bit sour. Quite pleasant brew indeed.