Deschutes The Abyss

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Bend, Oregon USA

Shared with our beer group during our blind stout tasting. Black, creamy brown head that sticks to the glass and land lasts well into the glass. Espresso, and dark chocolate, hints of oak and anise. Full body, light carbonation, palate coating with a welcome richness. Loads of flavor with treacle sweetness, roasted malt, and dark roasted coffee and more chocolate. Teh flavors linger in the long, dry finish.

bottle at Ft Wayne tasting - Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is dark roast malt and chocolate. It tastes of dark roast malt, chocolate, coffee, and oak. There’s a big, full body and a bitter finish. Excellent brew.

Dark black with low carbonation. Thick creamy carbonation. Smells yeasty, wheaty and alcoholic. Bitter flavor, wood and licorice. slightly bready, sugar flavor and bourbon.

Thanks Drink4satan for sharing a glass with me for a tasting. The appearance is dark black with a thin golden rim and some gold streaks that are floating along the top of the brew and gives it a marble like finish. The nose is full of fruits, chocolate, mocha, coffee, and molasses there is also some hints of oak. As you take a sip the flavor is nice and rich full of chocolate and coffee with bitter hops and roasted malt. there is an after taste that is nice and roasted and burnt that tastes like oak and sweet bourbon. It has nice carbonation with that roasted flavor that sticks to the side walls of your palate. Cheers Mike for the glass of beer.

Thanks to FlssmrBrewAlum for this black beauty! The pour produces an oily impenetrable black colour with a late forming mocha head that fades to a ring, leaving spotty lacing. The nose is rich molasses, dark chocolate, vanilla, wood, and some coffee. The flavour is extremely roasty with pungent, piney hops, almost charred malts, wood, espresso, intense impressions of anise and molasses, as well. The finish is very bitter and roasty, with a sweet cherry molasses undertone. The mouthfeel is full-bodied and creamy with prickly carbonation to make it not feel like chocolate milk. A deliciously brutal imperial stout!

08 courtesy of Ibrew2or3. Pours black. Nose is roast malts, caramel, molasses, coffee and cocoa. Flavor is much of the same, Great malt/hop balance. Nice bourbon notes. Excellent beer.

This is my first beer rating, so it will likely change as i become more attuned to the dynamics of beer tasting and the meaning of the lingo. That being said this Imperial Stout tasted and smelled choclatey and was pretty sweet. The sweetness become stronger with every drink. I will order The Abyss again when I have the chance.

Bottle. ’08 Many thanks to Ibrew2or3 for sharing. Black beer with a dense creamy brown head. Lots of coffee, chocolate and booze in the nose. Flavor is burnt malt, anise with some coffee and heavy bourbon overtones. Quite boozy but velvety smooth full body. Great beer. Please send me more!