BrewDog Abstrakt AB:05

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

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Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours black with no head. Aroma of port, sweet dark dried fruit, plums, maderia, cocus, roasted malt, sugar. Taste is sweet and with deserwinelike notes, port and maderia, plums, roasted malts, sweet chocolate and light cofffee, light cocunut. Full bodied, low ( no ) carbonation. Not a beer i could drink a pint of ( heh, both price and ABV prevents that too ) but for a sipper its wonderfull. 200411

Bottle 375ml @ Geokkjer
Pours pitch black with no head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, cacao, molasses and soya sauce. Taste is heavy sweet and light bitter with a long sweet roasted chocolate and a warm alcohol finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle at the Mikkeller Bar Copenhagen. Well, you will probably either love or hate this "beer" but just to be difficult ... Im on the fence! There's no head and no lacing on this very dark beer. It's jam packed full of flavours for sure and the coconut and cacao are very evident. It's very smooth and quite refined, but it's no refreshing session beer thats for sure. Your taste buds will be dancing without doubt, but whether they will be dancing your dance only you can decide. Give it a try and form your own opinion. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

This pours like treacle. Thick black with a dark tan head. Sweetness certainly plays a big part- almost like a Sheffield stout (i.e. Mather’s Black Beer malt liquor + lemonade) whilst chewing raw cocoa with an open wood fire burning in the other room. After talking to one of the brewers, asking what flavours the coconut imparted, I got the impression it didn’t bring much to the table, but just blocked up the FV. Indeed, not much coconut to be seen here. Slight notes of steeped raspberry and cherry. Ends up being quite hard going, but a great beer nonetheless.

375ml bottle. Pours almost pitch black, with reddish/brown hints, and a thin brown head. Roasted aroma, cocoa, vanilla, coffee, licorice, quite spicy. Sweet, full bodied, medium to high bitterness, low CO2. Roasted, spicy taste, cocoa, coconut, chocolate, toffee, licorice, coffee beans, vanilla, pepper, wood? Rich in flavours, but not overly complex. (2012-11-03)

Caramel, coffee, chocolate, roasty, licorice, vanilla, Very slight smoke. This is one beer I’d really like to get hold of again.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malt, overripe fruity. Smooth fruity and dark roasted malty. Lingering chocolate and smooth vanilla like. Sweet, smooth and roasted malty finish.

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2011 tap at 9A ... deep black thin lacing ... deep roast ... little nutty ... big chocolate ... nose ... thick viscous ... thick chocolate ... hint of raspberry and cherry ...sweeet ... very tokyo*.... light coconut in linger ... nice ... little too heavy going and lacking in any real coconut... there is a lightness in linger but its to subtle... non the less i quite like this 3.7

Bottle at home ... deep black ... huge bubbly brown head ... soft dark roast ... hint of lactic sourness ... hint of chocolate nose ... soft very sweet roast malts ... very sweet ... juicy soft coconut front ... toasted malts ... dark chocolate ... big big chocolate ... much more coconut than was on tap ... rich silky velvet body ... I really like this ... but its quite heavy going

Huge black pour with a large dark tan chocolate head. Nose is dark fudge, light roasted malt, a wisp of coconut, slightly earthy. Belgian influence is apparent. This one is fairly sweet up front with alot of chocolate and sweet dark malt. Finishes with a hint of roast and some lingering hazelnut (perhaps the coconut peaking through?). This is good but nowhere close to as good as Abstrakt 4 which was not only a solid imperial stout but a great treatment. There just isn’t enough of whats advertised in this one to set it above and the sweetness of the belgian influence makes it tough to finish the bottle. Has a nice lingering mocha aftertaste though. Solid but not amazing.

Bottled. Pitch black coloured. Small light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, coconut, brown sugar, roast, sweetness. Flavour is chocolaty, roasted, has loads of brown sugar, coffee, sweetness and coconut. Medium to full bodied. Nice alcoholdense and roasted bitterness in the end. Nice.