6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle - Pours black with a small, slowly diminishing, frothy tan head. The aroma is rich roasted, dark malts, chocolate and bourbon with a hint of wood. A sweet roasted taste, bitter chocolate, dark roasted malt, liquorice, bourbon, and spicy flavours with a warming sweet roasted bitter finish.

9.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Vollmundiger, cremig malziger Beginn. Außergewöhnlich weich, harmonisch, feine Bitterkeit. Kakao, mild röstig, passende Süße, komplex dunkel getreidig, nussig und etwas beerig, dahinter holzig. Der erkennbare Alkohol steigt an, stört aber zu keinem Zeitpunkt, langer malziger Nachgeschmack. Gut! 10/13/14/14/13/14

8

37.5cl bottle. A black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma of cocoa, dark malt, coffee. Taste of sweet strong dark malt, chocolate, some cherries, liquorice. Nice!

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle. Pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma of dark chocolate, brown sugar, oak. Taste of very strong dark chocolate, alcohol, coffee, brown sugar, roasty bitterness, very boozy warming finish. Medium body, carbonation is a bit high, quite fizzy. Nice but really nothing special or worthy of being an Abstrakt release.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Appearance is very dark, a small foamy brown head which quickly goes. Aroma- chocolate, toffee, caramel, roast malt, tiramisu, coffee, fudgy malt. Taste is rich chocolate cake, coffee, treacle toffee, vanilla, dark biscuity malt, roasty finish with some bourbon.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330mml. bottle as part of the "EFP Brewdog Advent Calendar. Day 17". @home. 18/12/2019. [#3.149 Global - #85 Scotland - #33 Brewdog]. Black brown colour with a small tan head. Aroma is rum barrels, cocoa beans, dark chocolate and soft candy. Taste is dark chocolate, soft bourbon and burned brown sugar. Sweet finish. Next one please!

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml. Sticky toffee, caramel. Hints of alcohol, hints of sourness. Deep fruity, grainy. Caramel there, a bit burned sugar. Really nice mild caramelly finish.

7

A bit disappointing

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

The 27th iteration in BrewDog’s ambitious (and expensive) Abstrakt series, a bourbon barrel aged imperial rye stout; this concept has been done by so many other breweries for so many years now that one could put forward that BrewDog seems to has lost its inspiration in this series, considering how original many of the older ones were… Anyway, sample from tap at BrewDog Brussels, thanks to Danai and to Craftmember for sharing. Thinnish but mousy, opening, greyish beige head, jet black robe. Strong bouquet of melting ‘fondant’ chocolate, bourbon, coffee liqueur, plum jam, pipe tobacco, vanilla whiff, ‘blood’-like iron, soy sauce, beef stock. Sweetish onset, candied figs, prunes, soft carb, full oily mouthfeel, walnutty, black-chocolatey and eventually coffeeish-roasty malt body with a vague ashy touch, its roasty bitterness enhanced by obviously very bourbon-like (sweet), heating alcohol. A fine BBA stout in all respects, but as said, I tend to expect more artistry and creativity from the Abstrakt series… In the old days, this would have been ‘just’ another BrewDog regular, I think.