Umbral Abyss (11.5%)
Vibrant Forest Brewery in Hardley, Hampshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.79
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Deep, dark, eternal. The Umbral Abyss devours all that pierce its watery veil. Eons of crushed debris give testament to this ancient nightmare.
Emerging from the darkest ancestry of Black Oktober, the Abyss rages with oak, brandy, and coffee. This giant ediface is a true Imperial Stout.
Emerging from the darkest ancestry of Black Oktober, the Abyss rages with oak, brandy, and coffee. This giant ediface is a true Imperial Stout.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
440ml can as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Very, very extremely and intensely dark brown witha small and quickly dissipating brown head. Dark malts, dark chocolate, rubber. Intense taste with salted caramel, bitter cooking chocolate, Marmite. And coffee coffee coffee. Not too too bitter but certainly not sweet. Full soupy body with little carbonation. Almost needs to be described in concepts, drunk in the shadows of reality.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2025
at 22:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap @ Christianssand Brygghus. Pitch black body with a big, stable, dense, lacing beige head. The most perfect looking stout I have seen so far. Strong aroma of roasted malt, roasted coffee, oak and alcohol. Flavor is also strong with lots of heavy roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, wood and boozy alcohol. Feels rather sweet but seems to end a bit dry after a while. Fine body and long lasting aftertaste with lots of malt and alcohol. Basically way too boozy but it’s made in a kind of strange balance as I find it rather pleasant anyway giving this beer some time and just sipping it during half an hour or something like that. Impressive and definitive a big beer this.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2025
at 05:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Belgium & Blues, Southampton December 2017. Pours near black with a tan cap. Aroma: roasted malts, plenty of coffee, berries. Taste: moderate sweet & moderate to heavy bitter, roasted malts, coffee salted liquorice, molasses. Medium to full body with fine carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2023
at 18:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can ordered from the brewery. Aroma has bitter coffee with molasses and underlying berries. Dark. Glossy. The lights reflects off it. Tan head soon fades. Medium bitter. Roasty. Coffee. Tar. Salt liquorice. A dose of molasses takes the edge off. Thick bodied. Oily. Flat-average carbonation. Long astringent finish. Big in taste and palate. Yet smooth. Hail Cthulu.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2021
at 21:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours black, small tanned, stable head. Smell is sharp, coffee, roasty, intense, burnt, ashy. Rather dry. Taste is full, roasty, coffee, mildly sweet, intense coffee, but very balanced with the roasted malts. Nice !
Tried
on 26 Dec 2019
at 17:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pitch black. Coffee and roast in the aroma. Ash, vanilla. Thick, sweet, roast, coffee, raisin, alcohol. Dark chocolate. Lovely!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 08:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at a bbq. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, coffee, roasted, vanilla, taste is similar, slight sweetness, some liquorice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2019
at 07:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home on the roof. Black with tan head. Big sweet sticky deep roasted malts, molasses, charcoal, coffee. Big sweet and bitter. Over medium body and soft fizzy carbonation. Very deep roasted, almost burnt. It’s tasty but feels terribly unhealthy to drink. YOLO 😝
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2019
at 22:15
8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tap at Mi & Ølsnedkeren. Pours opaque black with almost no head. Aroma is roasted malt, dark chocolate, intense espresso and hopy. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is creamy with soft carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and bitter with intense malt, coffee, chocolate, cream and vanilla. Very well balanced and rich.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2019
at 19:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate. Great brew.
Tried
on 09 May 2019
at 10:32