Devotion Ale - The Lost Abbey

BeerAdvocate

Massachusetts

4/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Beer review from BA Mag Aug 2007.

We couldn't find any info on the brewery's website for this one, and the back label was taken up by some poetic stuff. Everything else points to a Belgian Pale Ale, of sorts.

Pours a hazy, peach-colored beer with dark amber hues, topped with a big fluffy head that settles, laces and sticks. Soft, powdery aroma of malt and hints of spice. Smooth at first, but a bit gritty. Lively and light on the palate, with a fizzy carbonation that builds up to be semi-creamy. Crisp, with a green apple bite and watery notes of lemon up front. Peppery here and there, blending with some bitterness. Bread and crust flavors, plus faint notes of honey and toasty caramel beneath a dry cracker-like finish. Metallic at times--like sucking on a coin. Some lingering spice in a powdery, drying finish.

Refreshing, goes down easy and has a uniquely subtle finish to this very broad and, all too often, samey beer style. We could ourselves imagine sitting at an outside café, drinking this one with a plate of cheese and rustic bread.

Serving type: bottle

07-06-2010 14:07:50 | More by BeerAdvocate

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A: Pours a hazy deep apricot/peach in color with light to moderate amounts of visible carbonation and some orange + dark golden yellow highlights. The beer has a finger tall sudsy light beige head that quickly reduces to a large patch of very thin film that covers about 75% of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Light to moderate aromas of pale malts, spices, Belgian yeast, and light aromas of citrus/orange + floral hops in the background.

T: Upfront there are light to moderate flavors of pale malts, light fruits (apple), and spices (black & white pepper). Underneath the malts, there is a light to moderate flavor of Belgian yeast and candi sugar sweetness. Finally, there is a light amount of citrus/orange/lemon and floral hops that contribute a light to moderate amount of bitterness which fades pretty quickly.

M: On the lighter side of medium bodied with moderate to heavy amounts of carbonation. Crisp upfront with some light to moderate amounts of dryness in the finish.

O: Refreshing and easy to drink with a lower ABV than a lot of other examples in the style and very well hidden alcohol. Pretty well balanced between sweetness, bitterness, and spices.

Serving type: bottle

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The aroma's lead character is overripe fruit, nectarine, tangerine, and orange-like citrus notes. Then I get the pale malts, biscuit and earthy hops in the background.

The body is mainly light to medium with a slight acidic quality.

The taste is also alive with citrus and pale malts notes, somewhat fruity sweet, and a lingering finish. A nice beer for review #1,200!

Serving type: bottle

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