Abstrakt AB:13
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.64
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Cherry & Sherry, the recipe was devised by our production manager Nikola and is based on the classic German Schwarzlwald dessert. This is very, very special. Pretty much all of our team have been blown away by this oak aged beer as it rattled off our bottling line.
Finn (14770) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Flaske - #5663 - spandert av Rune. Delt med ham og djoeye hos førstnevnte 1 Aug 17. Svart. Skum langs glasset. Kompleks aroma. Som konfekt. Smaken en overdose av whisky & frukt. Alkoholen godt integrert.
RuneBlix (21978) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
375ml cradle and wire cork bottle stored in my cellar for a few yeast. A few bubbles on the top of a jet black body. No lacing. Confectionery smell, very inviting. some impact of oak and dried fruits. Well blended taste of dark fruits, confectionery chocolate and oak. Sherry like impression. Full bodied. Velvety in the mouth. Delicious slow sipper. (Joint session with Finn and djoeye, Tromsø 01.08.2017).
mart (14808) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
From the very old notes, hence this is not a real rating, but more just a mark to myself that I have tried this at one point. Actually I don’t need notes to remember this one. It was one of my favorite beers. It had really really nice mix of cherries, sherry whisky with some raisins and caramel thrown in. I would really like to try it again to see if it lives up to the memories.
Martin Lindström (28176) ticked Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 8 years ago
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Two year old vintage bottle. As with the other vintage Abstrakts, the synthetic cork was very hard to remove. Opaque jet black colour, as black as any stout can be, with a creamy, tan head, moussy at the edges but thinning in the middle, initially still retaining a thin beige ’veil’ over the beer but completely disappearing in the end. Weird, strong and complex aroma of soy sauce, cold black coffee, hint of dirty rubber, candied figs, black olives, hint of sour cherries and elderberries, very old sherry, some phenolic presence of shoe polish and wood glue, whisky, fondant and bitter chocolate (increasing as it warms up), burning wood, ’old leather’ if that makes any sense, subtle touch of baked banana and a lot of salty liquorice. Smooth and ’fatty’, very creamy mouthfeel, very thick and viscous, with a subtle sweetness in the onset, refinedly sugary and reminding me of my grandmother’s old-fashioned candi syrup as well as her salty liquorice candy (a taste I never quite managed to acquire), salty and very ’umami’, with only a very faint suggestion of cherry juice in the form of a subdued, lean, sharpish acidity, being snowed under with a heavy malt character, layered, beefy, bitterly chocolatey, a bit toasted, thickly caramelly and gently roasted bitter in the end while the salmiak-like umami and salty flavour persists, never becoming overly coffeeish; a deep, earthy hop bitterness is there too in the finish, woody tannins stimulating the submandibular salivary glands and expectedly booze, very sherryish indeed, in staying relatively gentle and smooth, nothing really burning or astringent here; the initial candi syrup flavour does stick to the throat though, almost like actual candi syrup - or salty liquorice, the flavour I associate most with this beer. Complex and interesting brew, but the salty liquorice taste was a bit too powerful to my personal palate, fruit like cherries easily go lost in a beer of this profound maltiness and the aroma has a kind of phenolic quality which I wish wasn’t there. Not as good as the previous Abstrakt I tasted, but still a beer to ponder over and still making me curious about the rest of this series.
rouhlas (5057) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
375ml bottle. Black color with no head. Aroma is roasted malty, chocolate, cocoa, some coffee, light dark fruity, light wood. Taste is sweet and bitter like the aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Koelschtrinker (37410) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Süßlicher, schwer malziger Antrunk. Rund, schokoladig mit leichter Süße, erdig. Die Süße nimmt ab, die Malzigkeit befindet sich mehr im Vordergrund. 11/11/12/11//11
Mr_Pink_152 (12938) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Stirchley wines and Spirits. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Rich aroma of dark fruits, and cherry and more cherry. Flavour has more cherry and chocolate almost like a Black Forest gateaux.
AndySnow (16580) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at omhper 20140516.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Raisin, dried fruit, vinous.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Vinous, plum, fruit, chocolate.
omhper (39870) reviewed Abstrakt AB:13 from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Opaque black, viscous no head. Soy sauxe, butter and caramel. Sweet, massive bodied, rounded mouthfeel. Sugary, buttery, syrupy, some sugar and chocolate. Heavy and unrefined.