Abstrakt AB:13
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.70
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Cherry & Sherry, the recipe was devised by our production manager Nikola and is based on the classic German Schwarzlwald dessert. This is very, very special. Pretty much all of our team have been blown away by this oak aged beer as it rattled off our bottling line.
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Vignale (8447) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Flaska från SB. Kolsvart tjock vätska med minimalt skum. Stor söt fruktig doft med mörk torkad frukt, choklad och fudge. Massor av choklad och fudge i smaken och en liten syrlighet som för tanken åt körsbär, fat och kanske en liten nyans sherry, lite kärv hårdrostad beska i slutet som är ganska nedtonad. Utan att nå riktigt ända fram ändå riktigt smarrig och en av de bättre i serien.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Two year old vintage bottle. As with the other vintage Abstrakts, the synthetic cork was very hard to remove. Opaque jet black colour, as black as any stout can be, with a creamy, tan head, moussy at the edges but thinning in the middle, initially still retaining a thin beige ’veil’ over the beer but completely disappearing in the end. Weird, strong and complex aroma of soy sauce, cold black coffee, hint of dirty rubber, candied figs, black olives, hint of sour cherries and elderberries, very old sherry, some phenolic presence of shoe polish and wood glue, whisky, fondant and bitter chocolate (increasing as it warms up), burning wood, ’old leather’ if that makes any sense, subtle touch of baked banana and a lot of salty liquorice. Smooth and ’fatty’, very creamy mouthfeel, very thick and viscous, with a subtle sweetness in the onset, refinedly sugary and reminding me of my grandmother’s old-fashioned candi syrup as well as her salty liquorice candy (a taste I never quite managed to acquire), salty and very ’umami’, with only a very faint suggestion of cherry juice in the form of a subdued, lean, sharpish acidity, being snowed under with a heavy malt character, layered, beefy, bitterly chocolatey, a bit toasted, thickly caramelly and gently roasted bitter in the end while the salmiak-like umami and salty flavour persists, never becoming overly coffeeish; a deep, earthy hop bitterness is there too in the finish, woody tannins stimulating the submandibular salivary glands and expectedly booze, very sherryish indeed, in staying relatively gentle and smooth, nothing really burning or astringent here; the initial candi syrup flavour does stick to the throat though, almost like actual candi syrup - or salty liquorice, the flavour I associate most with this beer. Complex and interesting brew, but the salty liquorice taste was a bit too powerful to my personal palate, fruit like cherries easily go lost in a beer of this profound maltiness and the aroma has a kind of phenolic quality which I wish wasn’t there. Not as good as the previous Abstrakt I tasted, but still a beer to ponder over and still making me curious about the rest of this series.
tmrmwel (4623) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 6049 of 9972, enjoyed 2 years after bottling. Pours black as hell and then some, with a small cola coloured head. Aroma is sweet dark roasted malts, with tobacco and cherries, as well as sweet liquorice, muscovado and lactose. Medium to full body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet roasted malts, with tobacco, liquorice, dark fruits, cherries and molasses. Tart fruits and wood in the finish.
rouhlas (5048) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
375ml bottle. Black color with no head. Aroma is roasted malty, chocolate, cocoa, some coffee, light dark fruity, light wood. Taste is sweet and bitter like the aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Grzesiek79 (7665) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottled On 15/3/13. Number of Bottle 5433 of 9972. Czarne piwo glebokiego koloru z niewielka ciemno brazowa piana babelkowa. Aromat wisni, deserowego ciasta i bitej smietany. W smaku malo kawowe troche moze czekoladowe, piernikowe rodzynki i ciasteczka. Slodkawe troche za bardzo. Rownowagi niewiele czyli chmielowej goryczki. lekka wytrawnosc. Plus za ukryty mocny alkohol.
laiti (11645) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
37,5 cl bottle @ lusikka. Bottle #7457/9972, bottled 15.03.2013
Aroma has licorice, berries, alcohol and hints of blackcurrants. Flavour has booze, licorice, dark berries and some roasted tones. Also some spices. Not very IS-like, more like an aged fruit beer. Sherry barrel is observable here though.
tiong (21414) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
375ml bottle
Bottled 15/3/13, bottle #7457/9972 - Pours pitch black with no head. Aroma of sherry, wood, roasty malts, hints of oak, whisky and cherries. Taste is sweet, syrupy and woody with hints of cherry, oak, sherry and toffee. Finish is sweet, sticky and woody with loads of syrup, hints of cherry and sherry notes. Quite heavy and sweet sticky.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Süßlicher, schwer malziger Antrunk. Rund, schokoladig mit leichter Süße, erdig. Die Süße nimmt ab, die Malzigkeit befindet sich mehr im Vordergrund. 11/11/12/11//11
Mr_Pink_152 (17449) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Stirchley wines and Spirits. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Rich aroma of dark fruits, and cherry and more cherry. Flavour has more cherry and chocolate almost like a Black Forest gateaux.
AndySnow (19624) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at omhper 20140516.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Raisin, dried fruit, vinous.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Vinous, plum, fruit, chocolate.