The Lost Abbey Announces Ultimate “Box Set”

Craft Brewery will issue a limited edition music-inspired beer each month in 2012, culminating in a collector’s box set

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — Get ready to crank the stereo up to 12. In January 2012, The Lost Abbey will begin a year-long series of special edition beer releases inspired by classic rock anthems invoking Heaven and Hell. Each month the brewery will release one new beer, culminating in December with a complete boxed gift set of all twelve. Each “track” released will be limited to a total of 450 bottles and available exclusively in the brewery’s tasting room.

Three Collections
The Box Set releases are divided into three collections of four titles each:

  • Re-Masters – Barrel-aged spins of The Lost Abbey mainstays
  • Re-Mixes – New blends created from The Lost Abbey archives
  • Fresh Tracks – All new beers brewed specifically for Box Set

Each release will be offered in a 375ml corked, hood-and-wire format and include its own original art. Beers will represent the full gamut of The Lost Abbey’s signature stylings, including fruit and spiced beers, wood-aged brews, sours, wild, and spontaneously-fermented ales.

Tasting Room Only
Because of the extremely limited nature of these beers, there will be no general distribution of Box Set releases. Individual tracks, priced at $15 each, will be available exclusively in the brewery tasting room on a first come, first serve basis and will be required to be opened and consumed on premises to prevent unauthorized re-distribution. Empty bottles may be taken off premises but will include measures to prevent counterfeit re-packaging.

The first track, an ode to Van Halen’s 1978 anthem, “Runnin’ With The Devil”, is scheduled for release January 21, 2012. Details will be available on The Lost Abbey website in mid January.

Subsequent tracks will be released the third Saturday of each month throughout the year, culminating in the release of the full 12-bottle packaged gift set in early December.

About Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey
Founded in 2006, Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey produces an extensive line-up of award-winning ales and lagers. Under the direction of legendary brewmaster and co-founder Tomme Arthur, the brewery was named 2007 Great American Beer Festival Small Brewery of the Year, and 2008 World Beer Cup Champion Small Brewery. The company’s beers, many of which are aged in oak barrels for 12 months or longer, are universally recognized for their complexity, unique flavors, and bold, boundary-pushing styles. For more information, contact Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey at 155 Mata Way, Suite 104, San Marcos, CA 92069, telephone (800) 918-6816, and on the web at www.lostabbey.com.

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For more information, please contact:
Sage Osterfeld, Media & Communications Liaison
sage@lostabbey.com
(800) 918-6816 x 104

Fallbrook Estate Pale Ale

Here’s a few photos from our picking and brewing the Fallbrook Estate Pale Ale – a special limited brew we made entirely with locally grown hops. (Specifically, hops grown in Fallbrook, a small community in Northern San Diego County about 20 minutes up the road from us).

Thanks to farmer Sheldon for the hops!

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Mutineer Magazine, Lost Abbey and Limited Beer

mutineer-2009-11Mutineer Magazine’s Brian Kropf pays homage to rare beers and the people who love them in a story in the November/December issue titled LTD. – 19 Limited Release Beers.

A profile of some of America’s (and the world’s for that matter) most difficult to acquire beers, among the beverages featured are Lost Abbey’s über-rare Sinners Blend and Port Brewing’s bourbon barrel-aged lubricant, Older Viscosity.

The article begins:

It’s 7 A.M. and the sun is just starting to peek its head out over the tall buildings of the urban landscape. The streets are quiet, and most people are still in bed, yet there is a line of people half a block in length stretching down the sidewalk. One might assume that this is a line for the newest video game console or concert tickets. But it isn’t. The people in this line are fine beverage fanatics waiting to buy limited release beer.

You can read the rest of the story in the November / December issue of Mutineer Magazine, on sale at newsstands now.

» Click here to visit Mutineer Magazine’s website