Tonight's beer: Deschutes The Abyss (2011)
Oh. My. Gawd. +Deschutes Brewery owns a small piece of my soul for as long as they continue to make this beer. Just saying.
Coffee, chocolate, dark bread/toast, vanilla; then caramel, burnt fruits, and molasses. Earth and peat and molasses and licorice linger in the distance, while bourbon and other oakish impressions lurk and loom. Then the flavors all run around like drunken beheaded poultry and things get a bit murky and overwhelming. Finish is slowly and gruadually dry.
Smooth and sticky and viscous, but not at all heavy-bodied. Plenty of prickle, and even if some of that is alcohol (as opposed to carbonation) there's nothing more than a softly-warming kiss. Roasty-drying through and past finish.
Probably the most drinkable big American stout I've had (and there are some I've missed, such as Dark Lord and The Darkness). Asonishingly complex and intense and integrated; the only problem I have with this beer is that it's always gone too quickly (I finished it as I finished my notes; usually I'm not more than halfway through a beer by then). Definitely worth sitting on the bottles for almost a year, for this.
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| Deschutes The Abyss (2011) |
Oh. My. Gawd. +Deschutes Brewery owns a small piece of my soul for as long as they continue to make this beer. Just saying.
Coffee, chocolate, dark bread/toast, vanilla; then caramel, burnt fruits, and molasses. Earth and peat and molasses and licorice linger in the distance, while bourbon and other oakish impressions lurk and loom. Then the flavors all run around like drunken beheaded poultry and things get a bit murky and overwhelming. Finish is slowly and gruadually dry.
Smooth and sticky and viscous, but not at all heavy-bodied. Plenty of prickle, and even if some of that is alcohol (as opposed to carbonation) there's nothing more than a softly-warming kiss. Roasty-drying through and past finish.
Probably the most drinkable big American stout I've had (and there are some I've missed, such as Dark Lord and The Darkness). Asonishingly complex and intense and integrated; the only problem I have with this beer is that it's always gone too quickly (I finished it as I finished my notes; usually I'm not more than halfway through a beer by then). Definitely worth sitting on the bottles for almost a year, for this.
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