Abstrakt AB:12
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.42
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The latest beer in our experimental Abstrakt series. Fans of Bashah Special Reserve get excited: for it is deep within that collaborative gem that AB:12 found it’s liquid inspiration. AB:12, which has just been transferred from oak casks back into one of our tanks, is a 11.2% imperial black Belgian ale which has been aged for 8 months in single grain Scotch whisky casks with a medley of fresh Scottish berries (tayberries, blackberries & raspberries).
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle
Bottled 12/12/12, bottle #9482/9829 - Pours pitch black with a tiny head. Aroma of berries, wood, hints of oak and yeasty maltiness. Taste is heavy with loads of berries, whisky, wood and juicy blackcurrant notes. Finish is smooth and oaky with loads of berries and blackcurrant notes. Quite strange berry juice.
Bottled 12/12/12, bottle #9482/9829 - Pours pitch black with a tiny head. Aroma of berries, wood, hints of oak and yeasty maltiness. Taste is heavy with loads of berries, whisky, wood and juicy blackcurrant notes. Finish is smooth and oaky with loads of berries and blackcurrant notes. Quite strange berry juice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2014
at 08:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, shared with Andrew. Black body with no head or lacing. Aroma of treacle, whisky and salted caramel. Flavour of sweet treacle and raspberry syrup. Strong alcohol. Medium body with a slick, oily texture. Soft carbonation prickle. A complex beer but it tastes a bit too boozy for my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2014
at 10:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Stirchley wines. Black brown colour with a slight tan head. The fruit is present on the aroma, and more so on the taste, real bitter fruitiness. Also some liquorice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2014
at 13:18
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
0,375L bottle, bottle nr. 8547. Pours dark brown with tan head. The head doesn’t stay. Aroma is intense fruits, cocoa, raisins and some alcohol. Taste is intense berries, raspberries, dark chocolate, and oak. Finish is long dark chocolate bitter with berries. Overall: great brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2014
at 07:16
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Black with olmost no head, no carbonation - dark malt aroma with some hops - overly sweet malt body with some alcohol sting, very small hint of hops - sweet fruity finish with alcohol heat - This lacks bitterness, just a sweet alcoholoc mess , not a Black Ipa in my opinion
Tried
on 01 Mar 2014
at 12:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
BrewDog Bar Manchester 24 Jan 13. Kullsort. Lavt skum med litt farge. God aroma av ripsbær. Smaken har et klart vill-bringebærpreg. Svakt syrlig ettersmak. Alkoholen er bortintegrert.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2014
at 13:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Rakuten, shared at a dark beer tasting. A dark brown pour that is black in the glass. It has a woodsy barrel aged character in the nose.The taste is sweet, berry/cherry flavor that is ,really delicious! After that you get some barrel aged character in the finish. I really like this it is a mix of sweet berries & dark malt character. My second favorite of the night.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2014
at 07:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Has a deep reddish brown colour with a small, fast diminishing, light brown head. Slightly sweet aroma of oak, vanilla, liquour, black berries, some licorice and caramel. The flavour is more sweet with tones of candy and Basset�s licorice. Has still an oak and liqour touch. Silky mouth feel, and has a light bitterness. A pretty sweet and complex beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2014
at 12:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375ml bottle shared with jeevan. Pours jet black, thin tan head. Aromas of whisky and jam and chocolate liqueurs. Taste has more of the same, strong whisky note and sweet red fruit at the end. Creamy, perhaps oily. Long finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2013
at 02:56
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
#2900. Bottled on 12/12/12. Bottle #7732 of 9829. Lightly reddish black, little head, almost none, mocha. Boozy whiskey nose with mocha, alcohol, oak, syrupy, slight berries but not as in the actual berries that should be in here, red fruits, sweet brown sugar,... Taste is syrup, liquorish, boozy, light oak, bark, light berries but none of the berries promised here, cheap chocolate, light cherries soaked in booze, sweet brown sugar, syrupy, warming. Slick, little carbonation & bit light. Doesn’t live up to the promise like the other AB’s, pretty simple & I am really missing the berries promissed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2013
at 13:26