Tonight's beer: Deschutes The Abyss (2014)
Starts with a breaking tsunami of dark-toasty bittersweetness: coffee, dark chocolate, toasted dark bread, molasses and maple and licorice. Earth and grass and smoke fill around the edges. Hints of spice and burnt fruit and ash. Slopes thickly to gradually dry.
Massively thick, chewy, sticky. Some soft breadiness, syrupy sheets lingering for a while. A bit of boozy prickle, but pretty subdued for 11.1% ABV. Nicely carbonated, but markedly smooth. Eventually leans a tad toward roasty-dry.
So, this is one of my most favorite beers on the planet (and I've never made any secret of that). Always superb, mind-numbingly awesome. Crazily intense and stupefyingly complex; magnificently well-integrated, graceful and supple and dangerously drinkable. Deep and magnetically subtle. I am pleased to be able to get this every year (and only have to jump through a couple hoops); though I'd love to try the newer rarer versions, I've not been able to figure out how to make that happen. Yet.
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| Deschutes The Abyss (2014) |
Starts with a breaking tsunami of dark-toasty bittersweetness: coffee, dark chocolate, toasted dark bread, molasses and maple and licorice. Earth and grass and smoke fill around the edges. Hints of spice and burnt fruit and ash. Slopes thickly to gradually dry.
Massively thick, chewy, sticky. Some soft breadiness, syrupy sheets lingering for a while. A bit of boozy prickle, but pretty subdued for 11.1% ABV. Nicely carbonated, but markedly smooth. Eventually leans a tad toward roasty-dry.
So, this is one of my most favorite beers on the planet (and I've never made any secret of that). Always superb, mind-numbingly awesome. Crazily intense and stupefyingly complex; magnificently well-integrated, graceful and supple and dangerously drinkable. Deep and magnetically subtle. I am pleased to be able to get this every year (and only have to jump through a couple hoops); though I'd love to try the newer rarer versions, I've not been able to figure out how to make that happen. Yet.
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