BrewDog Abstrakt AB:02
Triple Dry Hopped Imperial Red Ale
3.5
170 reviews
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Community reviews
Bottle shared via ibrew2or3 @ Woodshed 3.0! Thanks Dave! This just wasn’t a good one. Fiery crimson brew with a tightly packed eggshell head that left quickly. Loads of alcohol, sticky malt, and honey-dipped hops were present. The ABV was noticeable. Meh.
Bottle kindly donated by Gurthnar, huge thanks. hazy red brown color with minimal head. Malt, chocolate, vanilla, wood, alcohol in aroma. Taste, malt, chocolate, sherry, plums, caramel, wood. Excellent.
Bottle. Aroma raisins, milk chocolate. Fruity. Very light coffee. Light vanilla. Mostly clear deep amber-brown colour. No head. Taste has grapes, woody notes, caramel, initially cocoa, light coffee. Alcoholic presence is strong, but what go expect at 18 ABV? Considering this fact, the ABV is well hidden. Overall very very smooth, rounded, both in taste and flavour. Very nice aged experience.
Bottle, courtesy of Gurthnar, many thanks. Pours brown color, nearly no head. Aroma is cocoa, vanilla, malty, chocolate. Taste is sweet, alcohol, cocoa, shery, caramel, malty, wood.
Flasa - Gurthnar. Tmava hneda farba, bez akejkolvek peny. Vona sladova, alkoholova, horuce kakao, vanilka. Chut sladova, kakao, vanilka, velmi horka cokolada a najma prilis vela alkoholu.
Bottle @ RBBSG II. Courtesy of Travlr. Thanks Gene! Pours a muddy brown with a wisp of a tan head. The smell is rich, fruity, chocolate, caramel. The taste is rich...really follows the nose with alcohol esters & dry finish...a little wood too. Medium/full body with fine carbonation. A sipper.
Backlog. Tasted at a vertical tasting of the first six abstracts released. Bottles from Systembolaget. Slightly too sweet for my palate.
Taster from bottle at La Cantinetta. It pours a deep amber colour with a minimal tan head. Aroma is sweet and boozy with vanill, leather and caramel. Taste follow suit with more sweet whisky notes. Thick body with soft carbonation. I think this doesn’t show any sign of age on it, but is probably the old Abstrakt with the less character to it.
At the first Kinki Beer Tasting, bottle 61 of 3600. A clear-ish brown pour with a very strong aroma of plums, figs, malts & caramel. The best aroma of the 4 Abstrakts we tried. Medium bodied with a woodsy, boozy, dark chocolate & pepper flavor. It had lots of heat and was a bit too boozy for me.
Corked 37.5 cl bottle @ home (bottle #2945). Pours murky brown with a lot of sediment and no head. Aroma and flavour is resin, pepper, pine, and caramel – with a bitter and alcoholic finish.
Big rusty amber body with boozy listless head. Coppery nose, firey. Dense oily, oxidsed boozeage slips away to floral rustiness. Crystalled throughout, keeping it steely and narrow. Terse finish, mapely
Bottle, Brewdog Garvie Gauntlet
Oxidized. Confected medicinal sweet nose. Roasty nose. Lots of sap. Some burn. Range of incongruous flavors.
To me really has changed from an imperial red ale to an English style barleywine. Still had a bit of pine like hop taste but the deeper I got into it it had a lot of caramel, sherry, fair amount of booze, little to no carbonation.
Good looking dark amber color and had developed quite well. Slick and sticky in the mouth. A touch on the sweet side but pretty good overall
Bottle, thanks Craig! Deep dark brown color, no head. Malt, maple suyrup, red berries and dried citrusfruit in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor, well hopped but partly faded. Hazelnuts, vanilla and red berries. No carbon whatsoever. Caramel. Hidden alcohol.
Köszönöm Armando és Balázs!
Olyan színe van, mint egy régóta a pohárban pihenő kólának. Illata melaszos, alkoholos, szilvalekváros és enyhén lábszagú. Íze mazsolás, édes, kormos, karamellás, medvecukros és alkoholba áztatott mazsolás. Sűrű, testes ital. Utóíze füstös, keserű és alkoholos. Nagyon kiegyensúlyozatlan sör, amiben igen meghatározó a magas alkoholtartalom.
0,375 l bottle. Poured murky amber with a small white creamy head. Aromas of a candy sugar, cocoa, alcohol, raisins and herbs. Oily charactew, green leaves, strong alcohol, plum. Sweet because alcohol.
Dark amber - brown color. mouthfell is medium body, rich texture of malt, caramel, alcohol, citrus. Hopping emerges from the malt with arrogance! The finish is bitter and alcohol, especially beer. the only flaw of this beer is the perception that alcohol sip by sip gets more and more pronounced.
0,375 l bottle, courtesy of Balazs, thanks!
Poured murky amber with a small white creamy head. Aromas of a candy sugar, cocoa, alcohol, raisins and herbs. Oily charactew, green leaves, strong alcohol, plum. Sweet because alcohol. Sweet....
Nice light brown head. Clowdy darkred color. Warming alcohol, grassy hop aroma with chrystal malts. Sweet liqurish and light sweet caramell taste and lots of fruit and big bitternes that is clean and big body.
Aroma: A lot of smell in this one, a hoppy haze with sweet grape-fruits, soy sauce, peas and some tea.
Appearance: A clouded light brown, an off-white small head, no lacing and small curtains.
Taste: A sweet bread start, apricots, sherry, even alcohol, bitter grape-fruit seeds.
Palate: Little carbonation, soft and smooth, a big body, a small dry finish.
Overall: Not an easy brew, a bit unbalanced.
Note: Bottle 375 ml. Reviewed 2012-01-21.
37,5 cl Bottle @ RBBSG, courtesy of Travlr. Hazy brown coloured beer with a small white head and some light carbonation. Yeasty trange spicy hinted aroma. Full creamy palate. FInish is sweet alcoholic malty sweet hinted. Clear barley wine. Not my immediate favourite but good.
Dark amber colour, off-white head. Aroma of raisins, cheese, banana, malts and light aceton. Sweet, slight tart flavour, raisins, malts, overripe fruits. Malty, sweet caramel finish, overripe fruit (weeig).
I Agree with Eugene and Tim. This series really appears to be made to drink fresh, age doesn’t quite seem to improve it.
(From 37,5cL bottle @ RBBSG II, Wilrijk. Bottle 985/3600. Courtesy of Travlr. Thanks Gene!)
11/VIII/2012 - 37.5cl bottle @ RBBSG - (2012-893) Thanks to Travlr for sharing the bottle!
Pretty muddy dark brown cloudy beer, small light beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very sweet, bit chemical, sugar, caramel, alcohol, some dried fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet, slick, some alcohol, caramel, dried fruits, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: sugary, some hops, raisins, bit sourish, lemony, more hops, some dark chocolate. It’s good, but you can sense that this was not what they were going for. Agree with Eugene that it must have been a lot better fresh.
Thx. to Gene for this one // 375 ml. bottle, caged with a plastic cork // love the design on these bottles, simple but... these guys really know marketing // bottled 16.06.2010 // bottle nr. 985 / 3600 // tasted after #1 // age also hasn’t been kind to this one // less exited about this one than # 1 - most seem to have liked this one more // I wasn’t crazy about any of them // murky dark brown with little white head // smells aged, sweet caramel, toffee, lots of spices, hints of hop, rather sweet // tastes of candy, aged, tad plastic, malts, lots of heavy caramel, dried fruits, hint spice and some remnants of hops, warming but not much in the way of booze especially for an 18 % // this series doesn’t appear to have been build to last, probably was more interesting fresh
@ 2nd RBBSG, thx to Gene!
Head: off white, creamy , small
Colour: hazy brown
Smell: bit of hops, very sweet, very boozey, lots of malts
Taste: sweet boozey start, some hops, a bit of dried fruits, caramel, end is dry, bitter and a bit boozey. better then the 01 but still doesn’t satisfy me price wise ...
Bottle sample @ 2nd RBBSG, August 11th 2012. Courtesy of Travlr. Botle 985/3600.
Ambrée, col beige fin.
Arôme malté grillé avec une pointe de houblon en retrait.
Palais note herbacées prononcées, alcool réchauffant le tout sur des notes de soja avec une pointe de tourbe? et d’épice, les houblons malgré un dry hopping semblent manquer au rdv et se perd dans une marré d’alcool.
Au final, à part un abv assez haut, je ne vois rien qui justifie le prix de cette bouteille.
Sampled at RBBSG (courtesy of Travlr). Opaque murky brown color, small beige head. Smell is pretty strongly alcoholic, malts. Taste malts, alcohol, bitter-alcoholic finish. Medium carbo, full body.
Got a chance to try this at the Release Party at the Cask and Kitchen. I would have called it an Imperial Red Ale that is VERY well hopped. Deep amber red color and a nice thin head that did not last long. Smelled of hops, a bit of malt and then more hops, a bit of pine resin but not much more. The taste was all hops a slight amount of booze, which is amazing as it this was 18%! Not really all that much character or depth of flavors and little balance. Still this is an Imperial Triple dry hopped Red ale and Balance may not be what they were going for. Felt very nice in the mouth, good medium bodied and pretty smooth. Drinkability may be low but it is very strong in both alc% and flavor.
375ml bottle thanks to Stu. Pours a cloudy brown with very little head. The nose has a savoury/earthy thing which is almost meaty, also rubbery note with a sour edge to it which makes me think of ginger bread. The taste is of more ginger bread and rubber, with more savoury meat notes after, then a pate finish. The palate is rich, full bodied, a big tangy and creamy texture and an elegant finish. Overall, this beer is hugely individual, I love it.
Bottle from Coppers in Newcastle. A very dark red brown beer with a very thick oily mouthfeel. Extremely warming sweet cherry, strawberries, vanilla and slight leather notes with a strong warming fruity alcoholic finish.