BrewDog Abstrakt AB:05

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours an oily jet black with a small tan ring for a head. Definitley unique. Aromas of cocoa, slight tar, and coconut milk. Starts off with rich cocoa, slight tar and liquorice in the background, then finishes just like coconut milk. Alcohol creeps through to show its right there. Unique and decent

Bottled@Cask Pub And Kitchen, London. Close to pitch black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquorice, chocolate and some mild wooden notes. Flavour is liquorice, alcohol, some toasted notes, vanillaish notes as well as some slight roasted and choocolaty notes.

Bottle at Cask Pub & Kitchen, London. Chocolate, cofee, tar, aroma og old ropes. Very sweet, the alcohol comes creeping in through the sugar.

from erzbierschof.ch - dark black colour with no foam left; deep aroma of mocha, roasted with hints of vanilla and coffee; full-bodied and very sweet; moderate carbonation and quite thick; a fair bitterness and a long roasted aftertaste of black chocolate, hops and licorice

Bottle 1247/3600. Pours thick black with a nice brown head, dissipating quickly. Aroma has dark chocolate, dark fruits, cocoa, lots of roast, belgian yeast qualitites with brown sugar, dark fruits, lots of sweetness, a hint of vanilla, wood and coconut. Taste has quite some belgian yeasty notes to it, dark fruits, toasted/burned sugar, really syrupy, lots of sweetness, cocoa, milk chocolate, sweet liquorice, vanilla, amaretto. Nice tasting, but a lot on the sweet side.

Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Aroma is cocoa, liquorice, some yeasty notes, burnt caramel, burnt sugar, vanilla and woody alcohol. Taste is caramelish, brown sugar, burnt sugar, sirup, hazelnut, vanilla, dried coconut and more sugarish sweetness.

Mycket söt kaffe, lite känsla av Dark Horizon 3d-kopia. Ganska het, mycket god kaffe och brunsocker.

Pours a thick black liquid with a nut brown head that disappears after a few minutes. The aroma is rich with hints of soy sauce, dark chocolate, roasted malts, worcestershire sauce and muscovado sugar. The toasted coconut is nowhere to be found in the aroma. The taste is almost like coffee with too much sugar added. The beer also got a fruit to it that i sense in most of Brewdogs imperial stouts. Overall a good an complex beer with much going on in the noose but the taste is overwhelmed by an almost suffocating sweetness. This beer took me a while to finish.

UPDATED: OCT 5, 2011 Keg at the Euston Tap. Pours midnight black with a creamy, tan head. Aroma is all hoisin and soy sauce, some cocoa and roast. Very, very sweet flavor, slightly syrupy, at first candy, licorice, chocolate syrup, then some roasted malts and brown sugar. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes sticky with sugar, some roasted malts, subtle coconut, dark brown sugar, soy sauce, some ripe fruits like raisins and berries, oily coconut, light smoke, mild tar and roasted malts. Huge beer, extremely sweet. Really enjoyable but I couldn’t have more than a half pint. (4.2) Update (from the past): bottle at post-ACBF 2011 tasting. Pours dark, oily brown-black with a few bubbles. Rish, roasty dark malt nose. Very sweet and syrupy flavor, some chocolate and hints of coconut. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Very oily and slightly chewy. Warm finish with moderate roast, some brownies and sugar. Nice. (4.1)

Thanks to James from Tobacco Barn in Lake Forest, CA for sharing this at Dr. Bill’s beer/cigar master pairing. This is a nice, smooth impy stout with great notes of cocoa and coconut. It paired well with a rich maduro