Deschutes The Abyss

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

Bottle. Pours deep black in color, great brown head that lingers and fantastic lacing. Aroma is rich and full. Plenty of chocolate coffee notes. Full bodied, coating and smooth on the palate. Notes of bourbon and wood tannins are intertwined with a rich chocolate flavor. I don’t really find the molasses and licorice in flavor or aroma. Long dry bitter finish. Damn well done.

one of the most substantial beers you can imagine. you can chew it it is so thick and the taste just latches onto your tongue. amazingly complex and very very good.

22oz bottle shared courtesy of zrrbrrt. Poured a dark, dark (motor oil) black with an averaged sized brown head. Aromas of roast, coffee, caramel, molasses, and very light wood. Tastes of roast, dark fruits, licorice, espress, very light vanilla, and chocolate. Almost a coffee with cream / latte. Smooth body that was way too easy to drink. Alcohol content hidden. Nice lacing left on the glass.

22oz Bottle Pours out pitch black topped with a great brown head. Aroma of great roast and sweet malt. The tast is Great as well. I will have to get a few more of this one. Very Very good.

Shared at CT V by black95tt. Aroma was of coffee, roasty, burnt, chocolate. Flavor was really roasty, and a little burnt also and maybe some of the oak. Also a little molasses and maybe some anise. The aroma on this was incredible. I never give out perfects in aroma, flavor, or overall and i almost did.

Bomber, ’06. Pours a deep opaque black with a thick, surging, densely moussy and sludgy tan-to-orange-ish head. Big roast coffee nose; the coffee’s super intense everywhere in this one. Some slight notes of bitter, acrid hop too. Super bold attack: thick, viscous, oily body with deeply velvety mouthfeel. Doesn’t pour so much as it oozes. The molasses and anise they promise are there in the mid-palate but they’re subtle, they’re overwhelmed by roast and coffee and char. Very little bourbon or oak or vanilla there, either, though they hint around. The finish is huge coffee again, lingering into bitterness in the clingy, sticky finish. Awesome beer.

One of the most flavorfilled drinks I have ever poured. Heavily roasted with a strong, spiced licorice and root component. Many earthy flavors that all backup the spicy sweetness of the molasses with a silky smooth light bitter milk chocolate piece. Burnt caramel malt and vanilla with espresso bean and toasted breadiness as well. Pronounced alcohol in an medium-heavy body with richness that is present from first sip to well beyond the finish. Impressive drink.

Aroma is a deep sweet burnt scent. Color is deep, deep black with mellow carbonation and a thin tight brown head. Taste is roasted, sweet and dry. Starting with a full body it goes down with a sharp rich feel. Finish is rich with a deep roasted flavor that is a bit sweet and burnt nest a faint citric and hop flavor come in. The burnt taste comes out with a bitterness that is almost sour then there is a hint of oak and bourbon. After taste is dry with a tiny alcohol feel. As it warms a bit and you drink a bit more the hops show a little more. This is a wonderful Imperial Stout. Its deep, rich, complex and very well balanced.