Try?
Here’s another great beer I found in my beer stash, folks: Lost Abbey Inferno Ale. I bought this several years ago at Sherlock’s in Marietta, Georgia and I’ve been meaning to get around to it, and just the other day I finally did. Stylistically, Inferno is an Abbey tripel, though a little different from most of the tripels I’ve had before.
I’ve aged bottles of Chimay up to ten years or so, so about 3 on Lost Abbey Inferno is nothing at all. The crowned cork 750 ML bottles are perfect for laying down, though just to compare notes I think I will try my next sample younger. Not much about the beer itself on the label but Lost Abbey (Port Brewing) does offer this warning:
Corruption, Greed and Lust, they’re all represented on he books today. Tomorrow they’ll be stringing Gluttony, Desire and Sloth. Go ahead, tell yourself you’re better than all of them. But you can’t. Hell can be funny like that. Down here it’s all just sin. Everyone here is screwed just like you. They don’t care who you sliced, diced or cheated. No one is escaping this heinous place.
Your roommate is an axe murderer. Eerily, he’s not threatening. How can he be? The Fallen Angel owns your body, mind and soul. As such, no one can take your life. It’s already been taken. Or was it given? Neither matters. Did you seriously think you were living a virtuous life? At least Satan serves beer in Hell. He brews it himself right there in that flame stoked cauldron. Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry and simply labeled Inferno.
Wellll, OK. Anyway, Lost Abbey Inferno has an alcohol content of 8.5% by volume and I paid $8.99 for the bottle at Sherlock’s in Marietta, Georgia a few years ago.
Lost Abbey Inferno pours to a hazy yellowish color with a light head formation of creamy foam and a sour cherry and almond nose. Taking a sip, the beer is shockingly creamy up front with funky yeast notes striking me first, then cotton candy, sweet cherry and apricot fruit, dry almond, pineapple, cloves. Finishes slightly dry with warming alcohol and spice.
My bottle is as I said a few years old, and it’s a luscious yeasty treat. I savored every sip of this beer from the first drop to the last, and although it offered up some dry fruit notes I don’t normally associate with tripels, it also featured cotton candy, funky yeast, pineapple and rich light malt notes more common to the style.
Just wonderful, folks!
And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.
*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.
(B)=Bottled
(D)=Draft
