Dark Abbey
Top Out Brewery in Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland 🏴
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.75
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Trappist style, rich & complex.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at Herr Schmitt’s gaff.thanks to Paul. Brown hazed pour with light tan head. Aroma is mineral Belgian phenols, raisin, and caramel. Flavour is nice rounded sweet caramel, nutty raisin. Really well rounded malts. Raisin. Good. Effervescent light alcohol bite. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2014
at 13:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Garbage Night II - London. Many thanks to Paul. Pours clear brown with a creamy, tan head. The nose has nice dark malts, burnt candi sugars, aged dark fruits. Medium to big sweet flavor with a bit of alcohol punch, rich dark fruits, Belgian yeast, toffee, bread. Full bodied with fine to average, massaging carbonation. Lightly warming and sticky-sweet to finish with rounded aged fruits, dark berries, figs, toffee, rich bread, toasted candi sugars. Delicious. Excellent balance. Very authentic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2014
at 12:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Leightons. It pours darkest brown with a medium beige head. The nose is roasted malt, toast, caramel, toffee, dark fruits, candy, earth, dark fruits and fruit cake. The taste is roasty, toast, candy, dark fruits, plum, fruit cake, spice, light alcohol, raisin, vinous aspect and brown sugar with a smooth finish. Med-full body and fine, prickly carbonation. Smooth, good depth and we’ll-balanced. Very well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2014
at 12:23
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Dram Shop, Sheffield. Cola coloured. Minimal, tan coloured head. Sickly sweet aroma. Odd, granulated gravy character. Taste is tart. Brown sugar, too. All a bit odd. No cohesion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2014
at 14:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from The Beerhive. Dark brown body with a medium off-white head. Light lacing. The aroma is quite medicinal with notes of TCP, charred wood, prune and alcohol. Flavour of smoke, prune and blackcurrent. Medium body with an oily mouthfeel. Average carbonation. A tasty beer, but for me it is eclipsed by the depth and complexity of their Christmas 2013 beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2013
at 14:44
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from scopey as part of secon European local swap. Very dark brown color with small beige head. Strong alcoholic, medicinal aroma. Taste, dark malt, coffee, ripe fruit, coffee, yeast, booze. Not bad, but too much alcoholic and unbalanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2013
at 13:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, from The Highland Bottle Shop, on the train from Inverness to Hereford 21/10/13. Extremely dark mahogony brown vergeing on light black with a good sized light tan head. Nose is dark fruits, dates, lactic tang, spices, dark toffee, touch of booze, earthy resonance. Taste comprises tangy dark fruits, xmas cake, pinch of spice, dark toffee. Fullish body, fine carbonation with a little prickle which helpt to keep this number drinkable and moving along, boozey strains in the finale. Decent Belgian.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2013
at 23:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance -opaque black with a nice head. Nose - initially a little stinky then chocolate and brown sugar. Taste - brown sugar going into black Jack sweets. Palate - large structure big chunky texture sweet and slightly cloying finish. Overall - big but a little imbalanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2013
at 13:32
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
bottle at home .... deep brown ... big bubbly foam head ... soft dark roast malt ... tiny hint of sournesss ... tart front ... way tooo fizzy...dar roast ... soft toffee malts ... light pepper ... bitter roast ... woody ... little burnt suger ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2013
at 08:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours a reddish brown with decent head. Agree on the big aromas - full of dark fruit and demerara sugar, and almonds. Slightly sweet taste initially, drying out towards the end. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2013
at 10:12