Southampton Abbot 12

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Southampton, New York USA

DLD Pours a hazy brown with a tanned head. Very sweet aromas of plums, dates and figues. Full bodied with a sticky mouthfeel. Dry finish with some figue aromas. Very nice.

A big thanks to Stine for sharing a bottle of a beer I have wanted to try for years. First, I think this was too young. It is sugary sweet, even in a style that tends to be sweet, and it would probably benefit from a year or two in the cellar. But this is still something special. Very nice fruit and malt aroma with Belgian yeast. Thick and heavy palate with loads of malt. Fruit and yeast in the flavor, lots of malt, and exceptionally full palate and great, smooth mouthfeel. Brown it color, it left a nice lacing on the glass and had a tall head that took some time to fall down.

[Bottle, thanks Stine!] Pours hazy brown-amber with a small white head. The aroma has a lot of yeast, raisin, and some caramel. The taste is really sweet--like syrup almost. Once again, the raisin was very prevalent, with the yeast much more toned down than in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel with a decent finish. This was fairly good, but I’m not a fan of syrupy sweet beers usually, and this one definitely fits that description.

Many thanks to Stine for sharing this one. Dark brown color with a large head. Excellent aroma of caramel, light apple, raisins. The taste is ridiculous. It screams sweet malt, candi sugar and brown sugar. Wonderful yeasty finish. Fantastic.

Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Misty bronze. Herbal tea and aromatic wood in a bittering first waft; rising, a warm sweetness of honey, real maple syrup, apple, golden raisin and pear, powdered with a dusty, hazed peppering of allspice and ground anise. Very sweet champagne, candy sugar and honey flavor with lots of tart apple and pear presence, and brown sugar; fairly warm, but never hot, with some spirit inspired sweetness imparting a soft touch throughout. Dry fruit peels, black licorice, spiced dark bread and general warmth in the mid palate; full, syrupy and spritzy mouthfeel of frothy, generous and coating texture. Finishes dryly with a firm dessert muscat sweetness that lingers gorgeously. Dense and overly sweet throughout; though well crafted, it seems tilted toward a bombastic sweetness, and some tempering in the cellar might leave it more polished and more settled. Thanks Chris!

[bottle] Shared by Stine. Pours caramel brown with a large off white head. Aroma of tart apples, caramel, and raisins. Flavor is very full, with apples, candi sugar, brown sugar, and dark fruits. Definitely a sipper, and an extremely delicious beer.

[Thanks Sk8viking] Murky brown with medium beige head. Sweet fruity aroma with notes of caramel, fruits, roasted malt and ripe fruits.Sweet flavor with overripe fruits, roasted malt, yeast and tofee. Ends sweet.

Big thanks to ucusty for this gem. 750ml bottle from 2006. Aroma of champagne, white wine, yeast, malt, wood, licorice, grape, cobwebs. Large off-white head that mostly diminished and left little lace. Pours tan but looks black in glass. Flavor is sweet with an earthy woody presence. Also wine, ripe fruit, yeasty cobwebs, and a slight alcohol presence. Palate is medium bodied with a lively carbonation. Nice brew with a complex aroma, good flavor and high ABV that’s well hidden. Top notch.