Abstrakt AB:17
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Porter - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.46
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Our Abstrakt journey continues with AB:17; a three-coffee rye imperial porter. Big chocolately roasty malts, spicy rye, and more coffee than Twin Peaks - we’ve added espresso in the mash, cafetiere in the boil, and whole bean in the whirlpool and the FV. Courtesy of Has Bean, we’ve got a rich mix of spicy, bitter and heady coffee flavours mixing with the vanilla pods we threw in for good measure. AB:17 is in the final days of maturation and is almost ready for bottling. It is tasting incredibly smooth and decadent. A perfect winter beer?
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium cream to beige head, fast gone over pitch-black beer, pouring viscously. Liquourice, jap, roasted, chocolate, soy sauce, meat marinade, sweet-salty. Dry-bitterish flavour, roasted, but this time with salty jap - zoute drop; Talk about a surprising flavour in a beer. I get no vanilla in this. Well-bodied, slick-oily; feels better carbonated than it looks. It’s original, but not really to my taste, I’m afraid.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2015
at 12:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle at home from trade with Sebilinz, many thanks. black color, very small coffee-colored head. smells light malty roast, coffee, some ash, earthy, light chocolate. quite nice smell. full body, very soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes malty roast, coffee, lightly sour, some grains, chocolate notes, mulberry, alcoholic, light vanilla. finishes with coffee, some alcohol and sweet notes. quite nice one, strong nice coffee taste, a bit boozy but not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2015
at 13:43
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black color with big beige head. Aroma of coffee, vanilla, the rye is more present by *not* being malty. Taste is rich, warming, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, oatmeal stout mouthfeel. ABV is well hidden. Low carbonation. Amazing!
Tried
on 03 Jun 2015
at 13:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle. 3224 of 12250. Pours black-brown in colour with a brown foam head that diminishes away. Aroma of roast malt, molasses, dark chocolate, coffee. Taste is malty, sweet, roasted, brown sugar, chocolate and coffee, vanilla, warm, earthy. Smooth mouthfeel, full bodied, soft carbonation, warming finish with earthy, nutty notes. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2015
at 16:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375mL bottle, pours black with a small brown head. Nose brings out notes of coffee, cocoa, a little roast and some vanilla. Flavour is along the same lines, with loads of espresso upfront, followed by roasted malt and dry cocoa. Dominated by the coffee. Medium bodied and low-to-medium sweetness. Excellent stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2015
at 14:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
By this point in the evening my taste buds were pretty shot but I didn’t find it so memorable. It was a smooth dark beer I didn’t get all that much vanilla or rye from it nor did I get the high ABV. OK.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2015
at 23:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from BottleDog, Kings Cross (area) consumed at Pickets Lock campsite, Saturday 4th April 2015 Lots of chocolate and certainly some coffee but with plenty of soft creamy vanilla. It’s like a creamy coffee ice cream, really liking it. Loz thinks it is a little light on coffee, I disagree, it’s got plenty of coffee, it’s just that it’s a bit part player. Really good beer. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2015
at 15:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle no 10436 (from Koht, Tallinn). Pours dark brown-black with brown head. The head stays for a moment. Aroma is coffee, alcohol, malt, vanilla, roast. Flavor is sweet and bitter, coffee, malt, vanilla. Finish is coffee bitter with some alcohol. Overall: very nice sweet coffee (beer).
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2015
at 04:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Svart med fingerhøyt lys brunt kremete skum. Lukter kaffe, mørke frukter og trevirke. Overraskende mild rund smak til å være 10,9%. Kaffe, kakaobitter, fin sødme av vanilje og mørke frukter.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2015
at 14:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a dark brown black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty coffee aroma. Roasted malty coffee and chocolate flavor with weak hints of vanilla. Has a roasted malty coffee and chocolate finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2015
at 10:13