Tonight's beer: Deschutes The Abyss (2013)
Chocolate—dark and not at all sweet—layered with coffee; ash and burnt fruit and peat and tobacco woven densely in. Dark, deeply-toasted bread filling in the background, with strands of molasses and maple, licorice and vanilla. Hints of earthy-grassy bitterness linger into a slowly drying finish.
Massively thick and dense, pretty decent carbonation. Some stickiness lingers after big wads of chewiness. Eventually kinda drying, with barely a hint of the 11% ABV. Distinctly smooth finish.
One of my favorite beers on the planet, an utterly delicious big American stout. Just stupidly complex and searingly intense. Magnificently well-integrated, poised, graceful, supple. Insists on and rewards close attention. Distressingly drinkable, with some pretty substantial alcohol payload nearly undetectable.
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| Deschutes The Abyss (2013) |
Chocolate—dark and not at all sweet—layered with coffee; ash and burnt fruit and peat and tobacco woven densely in. Dark, deeply-toasted bread filling in the background, with strands of molasses and maple, licorice and vanilla. Hints of earthy-grassy bitterness linger into a slowly drying finish.
Massively thick and dense, pretty decent carbonation. Some stickiness lingers after big wads of chewiness. Eventually kinda drying, with barely a hint of the 11% ABV. Distinctly smooth finish.
One of my favorite beers on the planet, an utterly delicious big American stout. Just stupidly complex and searingly intense. Magnificently well-integrated, poised, graceful, supple. Insists on and rewards close attention. Distressingly drinkable, with some pretty substantial alcohol payload nearly undetectable.
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