Abstraction - Coffee & Vanilla
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.22
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We are excited to share a new rendition of Abstraction with you, featuring a coffee from our friends at Olympia Coffee Roasters - Guatemala Sweetheart San Marcos! This coffee features beautifully balanced character, and we found it to be the perfect candidate to pair with heaps of hand sliced Madagascar vanilla beans. The resulting beer is rich and velvety, but never heavy or overly burdensome to drink. We smell and taste fresh roasted coffee, milk chocolate, and a hint of sweet vanilla cream wrapped up in a creamy and smooth body. We are very excited to share this beer with you as it represents everything we try to achieve as craftsman - balance, elegance, authenticity, and rich flavor that is a function of carefully selected and simple natural ingredients - Beer that is enjoyable pint after pint, time and time again, in any circumstance.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
473ml can. Smooth and creamy with some lactic milky notes, vanilla, coffee, chocolate and cocoa. Quite generic Tree House stout. --- Beer merged from original tick of Abstraction Coffee & Vanilla on 28 Sep 2019 at 18:01 - Score: 7
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2019
at 14:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
16oz can pours an opaque dark brown/black with a ring of khaki head. Nose has malt, cocoa powder, vanilla bean, Charleston chew. Smells like high end chocolare ice cream. Flavor has malt, dark bread, tootsie rolls, caramel, cocoa. Missing the vanilla and the vanilla. Full but dry.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2019
at 02:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 11/14/18.
Dark, cola-tinged ebony with good clarity and a small, tan head that steadily recedes to a ring.
Nose is kind of a mixed bag for me mostly because I absolutely loved the Coffee version and liked, but wasn't amazed by the Vanilla version. Here I'm getting peanut butter or some peanut-like character and other odd notes created by the mix of vanilla and coffee (and of course the dark malt and barley). Roast is sort of intertwined with vanilla, with lots of strong prune and licorice. Light wafts of alcohol here where I didn't get them at all from the other versions.
In the mouth, initially I get the base beer and it's great. Well-attenuated with raisin, prune, dark chocolate and fruity coffee, but the vanilla and light alcohol seem to detract rather than add, with sharp, overly dry notes and heavy spice that doesn't seem to work well together with the mild, even, round, fruity coffee. Low carbonation, mostly engaging and no flaw. It's certainly a nice beer, but I think it just gets a bit too muddled taken altogether.
Dark, cola-tinged ebony with good clarity and a small, tan head that steadily recedes to a ring.
Nose is kind of a mixed bag for me mostly because I absolutely loved the Coffee version and liked, but wasn't amazed by the Vanilla version. Here I'm getting peanut butter or some peanut-like character and other odd notes created by the mix of vanilla and coffee (and of course the dark malt and barley). Roast is sort of intertwined with vanilla, with lots of strong prune and licorice. Light wafts of alcohol here where I didn't get them at all from the other versions.
In the mouth, initially I get the base beer and it's great. Well-attenuated with raisin, prune, dark chocolate and fruity coffee, but the vanilla and light alcohol seem to detract rather than add, with sharp, overly dry notes and heavy spice that doesn't seem to work well together with the mild, even, round, fruity coffee. Low carbonation, mostly engaging and no flaw. It's certainly a nice beer, but I think it just gets a bit too muddled taken altogether.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2018
at 22:20
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Pours a thick, dark, oily black, with smallish tan head that lasts. Aroma has a ton of coffee, some roasted grain, some burnt toast. Flavor is pretty smooth. Some slight sweetness with coffee, chocolate, dark fruit, roasted grain, a touch of vanilla (pretty hard to find amongst the other flavors). It has a fairly bitter, chocolate, nutty finish.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2018
at 23:07