BrewDog Abstrakt AB:05

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

Serve in Snifter

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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… Pours black with little to no head. The aroma is a marriage of blackstrap molasses, licorice, vintage port and pecan pralines. Full-bodied and fatty with modest carbonation. The flavor is sweet and vinous with notes of dark chocolate, brown sugar, espresso and blackstrap molasses. Sweet, chocolaty, brown sugar finish. The word “sweet” is used far too often in this rating… hence, this brew is just too sweet for me to fully enjoy. Still, a fine offering. Kudos to the ever-generous darkguardian for my sample!

Taster at DØE meeting, Aarhus Syd, DK. Bottled, 260411. Black with beige head. Aroma of nuts. Flavor with coco, chocolate and esters.

375 ml bottle. Bottled on 20.02.2011. Bottle no. 1740/3600.
Pours pitch black color with small beige head. Aroma of tar, syrup, caramel malts, sugar candy, vanilla and berry notes. Flavor of sweet sugar candy, caramel malts, toffee, vanilla, mild roasted malts and dark chocolate. Very sweet and sticky palate with very faint sourish berry nyances. hmph.
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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.

Bottle, courtesy of Meilby. Pours black with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, soy sauce, brown sugar,some mineral oil and caramel. flavor is sweet and roasted with some soy sauce, chocolate, fruitiness, alcohol, ash and malt.Medium to full body ,average carbonation.

Bottle shared by darkguardian. Sweet plum aromas. The taste is also very sweet with fruit esters and dry sherry flavors.

[keg at Holyrood 9A, Edinburgh launch event] Pours thick dark black - it sucks light from the room in a menacing fashion. Rich and viscous and with almost no head from the keg, the aromas are pretty weighty, as you’d expect. Dark chocolate and booze, a touch of smoke - not much coconut on the nose. Or the taste really, I struggled to pick out the coconut at all. At first it’s bitter, then the sherry and rum-like sweetness appears and leads into a smoky aftertaste with a really long finish. Hints of mocha coffee at the end, with maybe that touch of coconut - it’s complex stuff indeed. Good, but definitely not as good as the AB:04 [22022011]

375 ml bottle. Pitch black liquid with small tan head. Aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, belgian esters, dark berries and maybe very light coconut. Taste is sweet with medium bitterness and lots of chocolate and coffee. Quite burnt. Full bodied with light carbonation and smooth mouthfeel. Quite good imp stout, not boozy at all but not one of the best I’ve had. Balanced.

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.