Southampton Abbot 12

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

Pours dark mahogany with a head of large bubbles. Aroma is dried fruit , spice and a bit of roasted malt. Flavor is sweet, but not overbearingly so. Dried fruit (fog and raisin) flavors are the most present, with a nice tartness also in the mix. Alcohol flavors are present, but remain in the background. A very nice quad.

Pours a dark brown, with a thin, quickly diminishing off white head. Smells of sausage, a little smoke, tartness, and dark malts. The taste is very sweet, smoky, and malty all bunched up together. The sweetness kind of overpowers the rest of it. Almost sugary. Makes the mouth feel like you’ve been sucking on sugar cubes. Maybe a touch too sweet, but still quite good.

Bottle from puzzl. Fairly clear, auburn body with little apparant carbonation. The aroma is fairly sweet, toffee, caramel, rum, raisins, bananas and spice. The flavor is moderately sweet, ripe plums, raisins, lots of toffee and a bit of clove. Medium body is very soft with almost zero carbonation. Looks like this bottle was a fluke in that it didn’t carbonate. I suspect the high level of sweetness to be residual priming sugars. Fortunately, I have another bottle of this.

Courtesy mgumby10. Dark ruby/amber. Small layer of white foam. Aroma of smoked breakfast sausage, dark fruits- some acai for sure, light spiciness, bread, rich caramel, and airy yeast. Flavor of chocolate, toffee, light smoke, less meat, more dark fruits, spiciness, heavy bread, subtle tartness from the yeast. Complex brew. Full body, balanced carbonation is foamy yet very soft. Great brew.

Bottle from Capone’s, shared with Mad_indian. Pours deep amber with a large khaki colored head. Aroma of belgian spices, yeast, fruit, and caramel. The flavor is sweet upfront, fruit, caramel, smooth for 10%, bread, spices, citrus, and mildly bitter, and moderately carbonated. Good brew.

Bottle from capones, Thanks Stegosaurus. Hazy pour with a tan head. Strong fruit aroma with hints of brown sugar. Caramel malt, brown sugar and fruit flavor. Smooth.

25 oz bottle, via adrian910ss. Pours a clear orangish amber colored body under a large fluffy beige head that slowly deflated to a partial covering. Some light spotty lacing. Aroma is very fruity with lots of Belgian yeast influence. Light alcohol, raisin, plum, caramel, toffee, grapes, and candi sugar. Flavor is knock you over the head sweet with lots of candi sugar and raisin notes. Minimal alcohol flavor with light yeast on the finish. Mouthfeel is full bodied, but stops short of being overly cloying with very nice pinpoint carbonation. Finishes with a slight warming sensation. A pretty good beer, but way below what I expected. I gotta say, I suppose that I just don’t care for much from Southampton save for the Imperial Russian Stout that I’ve had thus far.

This beer is superb. Creamy white head. Hint of vinousness in the nose along with the yeastiness. Sweetness just this side of cloying, but so tasty. Like a raisin nut granola bar.