Abstraction
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.54
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Abstraction is a robust imperial porter brewed with an array of chocolate, caramel, and roasted malts. Its flavor is a function of complex, carefully selected ingredients and precise brewing application. It tastes like fudgy brownies and milk chocolate without actually adding either to the beer. in other words, its alchemy through artful coaxing of water, hops, malt, and yeast. Despite its dense flavor and heft, Abstraction drinks easily!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours black into a shaker. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Sweet dark chocolate and mocha aromas. Soft with sweet creamy chocolate front to back. Medium length slightly charred finish.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2019
at 23:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Canned 9/11, drunk 11/9/18.
Dark chocolate, burnt tan head fades quickly to a ring. Clarity undetermined.
Black licorice, bitter chocolate and burnt cacao definitely display the range of malt and unmalted barley quite nicely. No fudge or alcohol and it's nice to see no adjunct or lactose for a change. It's rich and enticing, definitely challenging with all of this dark fruit and bitter roast but it's so nice that its not a nose full of fudge and other sugars.
First sip is indeed nicely attenuated yet very soft and malty. Super roasted with tons of raisin and prune. Light but nicely low ash and tons of fruity chocolate notes leading to plum, vanilla and coffee-like roast. Lingering biscuit, milk and dark chocolate. Great balance, low, engaging carbonation. Really satisfying to see one of my favorite breweries come out with a real beer that kills it without needing any crap in it.
Dark chocolate, burnt tan head fades quickly to a ring. Clarity undetermined.
Black licorice, bitter chocolate and burnt cacao definitely display the range of malt and unmalted barley quite nicely. No fudge or alcohol and it's nice to see no adjunct or lactose for a change. It's rich and enticing, definitely challenging with all of this dark fruit and bitter roast but it's so nice that its not a nose full of fudge and other sugars.
First sip is indeed nicely attenuated yet very soft and malty. Super roasted with tons of raisin and prune. Light but nicely low ash and tons of fruity chocolate notes leading to plum, vanilla and coffee-like roast. Lingering biscuit, milk and dark chocolate. Great balance, low, engaging carbonation. Really satisfying to see one of my favorite breweries come out with a real beer that kills it without needing any crap in it.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Nov 2018
at 01:55
8/10
Czekoladowy mocno, chlalny, smaczny, gladki, ukryte alko, smak>aromat... robi wrazenie
Tried
from Can
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 18 Oct 2018
at 21:43
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours a dark, cola-brown, with smallish, creamy tan head. Aromas of chocolate, roasted grain, some coffee. Flavor is very similar: coffee, roasted grain, sweet chocolate, mocha. It is smooth, smooth, smooth.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2018
at 00:05