The Abyss - Deschutes Brewery

Fenris244

Texas

4.47/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

2010 vintage poured into my Jester King snifter

Pours black with a thin toffee colored head, the beer certainly lives up to it's name. No light looks like it's getting through this beer.

Coffee comes through well with chocolate and caramel accenting, a bourbon and oak smell is pretty strong too. Cherry aroma is also present as well as some toffee.

Very complex and very very good. Strong coffee and caramel up front followed by a smokey oak note, licorice flavor comes through on the finish as well as a bourbon, cherry and coffee after taste, the alcohol shows itself by heating up every thing it touches after a while but it's muted very well by all of the flavors coming through.

Heavy in body and very smooth and creamy, low carbonation accents the creaminess. Very drinkable though it took me a good ten minutes to get my nose out of the glass and take a sip! A great sipping beer and certainly worthy of the esteem it's given.

Serving type: bottle

02-21-2011 04:18:52 | More by Fenris244

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Illinois

4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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4.25/5  rDev -6.8%

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4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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5/5  rDev +9.6%

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4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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New Jersey

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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New Jersey

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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4.25/5  rDev -6.8%

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Texas

4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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Oregon

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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Texas

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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Maryland

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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Texas

4.25/5  rDev -6.8%

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Maryland

4.25/5  rDev -6.8%

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California

4/5  rDev -12.3%

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Ohio

4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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Illinois

4/5  rDev -12.3%

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4.5/5  rDev -1.3%

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3.5/5  rDev -23.2%

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North Dakota

4.75/5  rDev +4.2%

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California

4.25/5  rDev -6.8%

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