Deschutes The Abyss

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

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of chocolate, and lesser notes of bourbon. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of chocolate, medium notes of caramel, and light notes of bourbon, leading to a bitter finish.

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of moejuck. Pours completely black and opaque with a creamy, light brown head. Hard roasted malt aroma. Medium-bodied with very burned, coffeeish malt accents and a distinct malt astringent bitter finish. Very solid. 070907 and 260708

Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Pitch black, firm dark brown head. Sweet and full bodied with tarry licorice and syrupy coffee. Almost completely dominated by sugar and syrup. The oak os in balanced levels, but the sweetness not. It gets inky with crude oil and tar, feels sticky and messy. I quite adore most of Deschutes beers, this is just, well not good.

RBSG07. From 22 oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a creamy brown head. Aroma of barrels, coffee and cocoa. Flavour is dominated by barrel notes, coffee, chocolate and liqourice. Finish is a good blend of hop and coffee bitterness. 7-5-8-4-16 4

Blind tasting at sk8vikings porter / stout tasting, beer no 17. Pours black with brown creamy head. Slight roasted malty aroma. Slight alcohol note in aroma. Chocolate malty flavour, slight sweet with a bitter hops twist. Nice bitter finish with a persisting chocolate note and slight burned. 7-4-7-4-14 3.6

From bottle #32 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours dark brown with a lacing tan head. Roasted malt, chocolate and coffee aroma. Flavour is smooth roasted malt and chocolate. Solid coffeeish flavour to this. Light fruity note to an otherwise solid roasted and dark brew. Lingering roasted malt flavour. Nice smooth and flavourful. Lastin fruity bitterness.8-4-9-4-17=4.2

Bottle 66cl. @ home.
[ Courtesy of Secret Santa ]. Clear black black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, dark roasted, wood, moderate hoppy, sweet english licorice, alcohol. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090424]

Bottled. Pitch black colour, small beigeish brown colour. Aroma is wooden, licoriceish, dark dry fruity along with coffee and roasted malts. Flavour is a bit roasted, quite caramel malty, licoriceish, alcoholic as well as mildly sweet wooden notes being in the background. A wellbalanced imperial stout.

Bottle. Black coloured with a beige head. Roasted aroma of chocolate and coffee. Roasted flavour of dark chocolate and coffee. Dry roasted finish.

Name: Abyss
Date: 02/21/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Vintage: 2006

Appearance: solid black, wispy beige head,
Aroma: sweet roasted aroma with light oak and just a hint of vanilla,
Flavor: rich roasted malt flavor, rich chocolate shows up later backed by a bit of sweet vanilla, good lasting bitterness that is almost over the top but held back by oak based bitterness rather than the roasted or black malts,
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Date: 03/10/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2006

Aroma: dry roasted aroma that finally picks up some sweetness upon warming,
Flavor: flavor is a blend of rich roasted, dark chocolate, and vanilla, starts very dry but picks up sweetness once it reaches room temperature, the rich chocolate blossoms upon warming and blends with the sweet vanilla to produce a rich chocolate malt, very low bitterness, at the very end it reverts back to roasted

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4
-------- /> Name: Abyss
Date: 02/23/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Vintage: 2007

Appearance: black, fine tan head,
Aroma: huge roasted and dark chocolate malt aroma,
Body: creamy body,
Flavor: rich dark chocolate flavor, nice vanilla sweetness complements the dark chocolate, hint of bourbon in the sweetness, roasted with a touch of oak provides balance,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4