Your first sip will reveal a faint malt sweetness that will be crushed by the Overlord's love of sugar and spice and all things nice. ... Rumor has it the beer…
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Hop Profile
No hop profile is on record for this beer.
Beer Details
Description
There's something so silky and seductive about Golden Strong ales. At once, they are light in body yet never stray too far from the Cauldron of Alcoholic riches. ... Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry, and simply labeled Inferno.Source lostabbey.com
Tasting Notes
Your first sip will reveal a faint malt sweetness that will be crushed by the Overlord's love of sugar and spice and all things nice. ... Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry, and simply labeled Inferno.Source lostabbey.com
SRM
Straw yellow (no SRM number published)Source lostabbey.com
Research Notes
Inferno is a 9% Belgian style golden strong ale from The Lost Abbey in Vista, California, described by the brewery as straw yellow and bone dry.
There's something so silky and seductive about Golden Strong ales. At once, they are light in body yet never stray too far from the Cauldron of Alcoholic riches. ... Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry, and simply labeled Inferno.
Your first sip will reveal a faint malt sweetness that will be crushed by the Overlord's love of sugar and spice and all things nice. ... Rumor has it the beer is straw yellow, bone dry, and simply labeled Inferno.
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Other Strong Ale or Lager covers any style intentionally brewed to a higher alcohol content than its own guideline allows, at 8 percent ABV or more and not wood or barrel aged. The published 9.0% ABV clears that threshold.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Other Strong Beer
Gold
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Not Found: Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked lostabbey.com, lostabbey.com, beerandbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, lostabbey.com.
Research Notes
The beer page already lists the 2026 GABF gold in Other Strong Beer, plus San Diego International Beer Festival medals in Belgian-style Pale Strong Ale (gold 2015, bronze 2013 and 2011).
The quoted description is excerpted, with the omitted middle marked by an ellipsis.
The page's bottle image is labelled 750 ml, which suggests the package size but is not stated in text.
Web search was unavailable for part of this session, so Untappd and press listings were not checked for IBU or ingredients.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Field pass 2026-10-13: The matching Craft Beer and Brewing review publishes 25 IBU; no hop varieties are named.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery page gives tasting language, color, 9.0% ABV and the Belgian golden ale style; it names no hops, malts or yeast.