Tonight's beer: Deschutes The Abyss (2011)
Chocolate—very dark and unsweetened chocolate—backed by coffee and vanilla, caramel and molasses. Toasted dark bread through the middle, with threads of earthy-grassy bitterness, peat and smoke and ash. Hints of tobacco and burnt fruits around the edges. Slides in the direction of dry, gradually.
Smooth, a bit heavier and thicker than medium-bodied. Surprisingly well-carbonated. Some stickiness lingers for a while, but the beer finishes startlingly clean and gently drying. Roughly no hint of the 11% ABV.
Shockingly delicious, smooth, terrifyingly drinkable. Staggeringly complex and imposingly intense and something a lot like balanced. Gloriously well-integrated., supple and graceful, subtle enough to reward close attention. This is the only chase beer I bother running down, and it's very much worth it.
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| Deschutes The Abyss (2011) |
Chocolate—very dark and unsweetened chocolate—backed by coffee and vanilla, caramel and molasses. Toasted dark bread through the middle, with threads of earthy-grassy bitterness, peat and smoke and ash. Hints of tobacco and burnt fruits around the edges. Slides in the direction of dry, gradually.
Smooth, a bit heavier and thicker than medium-bodied. Surprisingly well-carbonated. Some stickiness lingers for a while, but the beer finishes startlingly clean and gently drying. Roughly no hint of the 11% ABV.
Shockingly delicious, smooth, terrifyingly drinkable. Staggeringly complex and imposingly intense and something a lot like balanced. Gloriously well-integrated., supple and graceful, subtle enough to reward close attention. This is the only chase beer I bother running down, and it's very much worth it.
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