Abstrakt AB:27
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.48
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This stout has taken every inch of flavour from the barrels and then some. For the latest in the Abstrakt family – a lineage that celebrates experimentation at every turn – we have created a beer that celebrates in twelve (12) malts. As you can imagine, a dozen different malts produce a huge imperial stout and the combination of US and European hops are there to complement it; added only to the boil this latest Abstrakt is a champion of grain and ageing.
The aroma gives this away immediately, with edges of coffee, dark chocolate, toffee, forest fruits, and a vanilla sweetness mingling with a rye spiciness from the wood. We have also added coffee, honey, demerara sugar and milk sugars to the brewsheet – just to create even more layers of flavour. AB:27 is thick, smooth and flows into a warming finale that is unlike anything we have released before. But then that is why we have Abstrakt.
The aroma gives this away immediately, with edges of coffee, dark chocolate, toffee, forest fruits, and a vanilla sweetness mingling with a rye spiciness from the wood. We have also added coffee, honey, demerara sugar and milk sugars to the brewsheet – just to create even more layers of flavour. AB:27 is thick, smooth and flows into a warming finale that is unlike anything we have released before. But then that is why we have Abstrakt.
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7.5/10
Thick chocolate fudge, some raisin on the nose from the barrels. Not the best of the AB, but nothing to shake a stick at...
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Apr 2019
at 19:18
7/10
Tried
on 27 Apr 2019
at 21:54
8/10
On tap at Brewdog Soho. Black with light brown head. Roasted malts, coffee, Chocolate, Smooth
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2019
at 14:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Brewdog Cowgate. Pours black with very little in the way of a head. Boozy bourbon aromas, spicy, some chocolate. Taste is more of the same. Bourbon and wood dominate. Thin.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2019
at 17:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Keg at BrewDog Dalston - London. Shared with Andy! Pours oily black with a creamy tan head. Solid, well rounded impy, with lots of deep chocolate, dried dark fruits, light ashy roast bitterness. Full bodied and chewy, with fine carbonation. Warming finish, lots of baking cocoa. Great stuff.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2019
at 08:02
7/10
It---s not all that .... Sorry
Tried
on 18 Apr 2019
at 21:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at BrewDog Leicester. Purplish brown and opaque. No head. Aroma of bourbon, hot fudge, rubber. Taste is sweeter than I envisaged, but there is a sour bourbon comeback nearer the finish. Medium ro heavy carbonation. Maybe an AB by numbers (if you'll pardon the pun) but still complex and enjoyable.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2019
at 19:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at brewdog agm 2019... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing.. Soft sweet chocolate roast malts nose.. Dark chocolate roast malts.. Light open alcohol.. Dark roast.. Bitter chocolate roast
Tried
on 15 Apr 2019
at 07:06
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the brewdog AGM 2019. A jet black coloured pour with a a lasting big creamy tan head. Aroma is smooth roast, dried fruit, vanilla, woody bourbon. Flavour is composed of woody and tangy, fruit cake, light spicy fruit cake vanilla,. Palate is medium sweet, rounded, oiky, light tang, oily. Fun. Lingering warming alcohol.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2019
at 12:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the brewdog agm. Pours black, nose is chocolate, coconut, liquorice, cake, taste is similar, harsh
Tried
on 08 Apr 2019
at 09:23