Tonight's beer: Deschutes The Abyss (2011)
Dark chocolate, coffee, caramel, and vanilla to open; toast and dark bread fill in immediately behind, with hints of molasses and maple. Dark fruits—dried and candied and burnt—flicker around the edges, with traces of smoke and ash, earth and peat. Richly bittersweet from start to finish, gliding easily and shallowly to a little dry.
Kinda thick, smooth, gently-carbonated. Syrupy-sticky, viscous, slowly and stickily drying. Virtually zero alcohol presence, especially for 11% ABV: a soft and gentle warmth. A little roasty abrasiveness emerges late.
Wow. Just, wow. At three years old, an astonishing beer with probably a couple more good years in it. Supple and subtle and graceful and terrifyingly drinkable; stupidly complex and numbingly intense, beautifully well-balanced and integrated. This years release is tomorrow, and my soul rejoices; this is one of my favoritest beers on the planet.
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| Deschutes The Abyss (2011) |
Dark chocolate, coffee, caramel, and vanilla to open; toast and dark bread fill in immediately behind, with hints of molasses and maple. Dark fruits—dried and candied and burnt—flicker around the edges, with traces of smoke and ash, earth and peat. Richly bittersweet from start to finish, gliding easily and shallowly to a little dry.
Kinda thick, smooth, gently-carbonated. Syrupy-sticky, viscous, slowly and stickily drying. Virtually zero alcohol presence, especially for 11% ABV: a soft and gentle warmth. A little roasty abrasiveness emerges late.
Wow. Just, wow. At three years old, an astonishing beer with probably a couple more good years in it. Supple and subtle and graceful and terrifyingly drinkable; stupidly complex and numbingly intense, beautifully well-balanced and integrated. This years release is tomorrow, and my soul rejoices; this is one of my favoritest beers on the planet.
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