Abstraction - Coffee & Vanilla
Tree House Brewing Company
- From:
- Tree House Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- 93
- Avg:
- 4.28 | pDev: 5.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 02, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 25, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
Today we are excited to share a new rendition of Abstraction with you, featuring a coffee from our friends at Olympia Coffee Roasters - Guatemala Sweetheart San Marcos! This coffee features beautifully balanced character, and we found it to be the perfect candidate to pair with heaps of hand sliced Madagascar vanilla beans. The resulting beer is rich and velvety, but never heavy or overly burdensome to drink. We smell and taste fresh roasted coffee, milk chocolate, and a hint of sweet vanilla cream wrapped up in a creamy and smooth body. We are very excited to share this beer with you as it represents everything we try to achieve as craftsman - balance, elegance, authenticity, and rich flavor that is a function of carefully selected and simple natural ingredients - Beer that is enjoyable pint after pint, time and time again, in any circumstance. Enjoy!
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Reviewed by Newbeergeek1 from Maine
4.42/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Got 4 of these in 2020 on a beer trail and just had this a few days ago. I can't believe that I had "lost" it but am so glad I found it in my "stash". smooth and the coffee and vanilla really came out in those wonderfully subtle ways of TH. Sorry it's been retired. So am I! but just not sorry.
Jul 02, 2021
Reviewed by stoumi from California
4.43/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Abstraction pours a deep, dark brown with a thin and tan head that quickly dissipated to a thin veiling covering the glass. The smell is dark, roasted coffee with a nice whiff of dark chocolates, light, sweet malts and a hint of vanilla. Taste is rich, dark roasted coffee with a nutty undertone. A nice mild vanilla coupled with notes or dark chocolate, which finishes with an acrid (but not unpleasant) coffee bitterness.
Dec 25, 2018
Rated by gonzo000 from Massachusetts
4.29/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
excellent porter
Dec 01, 2018
Reviewed by agreenman19 from Connecticut
4.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
L - dark brown with a beet red-stained brown head.
S - burnt popcorn and coffee grounds. Light milk chocolate and vanilla amongst the acridity.
T - hones in on an earthy, genuine coffee roast flavor. Bottom of the pot bitterness with a smattering of nutty vanilla bean tartness. Roasty with burnt chocolate malts.
F - silky and oily, yet not heavy or overly rich.
O - takes all your favorite stout flavors and tackles the bitter, roastier, toastier side of them. Black coffee bitterness, vanilla bean earthiness, burnt maltiness. Roasty toasty.
Nov 16, 2018S - burnt popcorn and coffee grounds. Light milk chocolate and vanilla amongst the acridity.
T - hones in on an earthy, genuine coffee roast flavor. Bottom of the pot bitterness with a smattering of nutty vanilla bean tartness. Roasty with burnt chocolate malts.
F - silky and oily, yet not heavy or overly rich.
O - takes all your favorite stout flavors and tackles the bitter, roastier, toastier side of them. Black coffee bitterness, vanilla bean earthiness, burnt maltiness. Roasty toasty.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.9/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned 10/25/18; drank 11/10/18 @ the Yarchives.
Black appearance.
A rough pour yielded a HUGE dark tan head; minimal lace.
Medium roast coffee bean, milk chocolate & faint vanilla notes in the nose.
Creamy medium thick mouthfeel.
Chocolate syrup, cream & fresh earth flavors up front; dark roast coffee bean & mild table sugar notes on the finish.
A bit earthy for the style, in my eyes; I prefer more of the subtle coffee notes than this dark roast blast. Flavorful, but not to my overall taste.
Nov 11, 2018Black appearance.
A rough pour yielded a HUGE dark tan head; minimal lace.
Medium roast coffee bean, milk chocolate & faint vanilla notes in the nose.
Creamy medium thick mouthfeel.
Chocolate syrup, cream & fresh earth flavors up front; dark roast coffee bean & mild table sugar notes on the finish.
A bit earthy for the style, in my eyes; I prefer more of the subtle coffee notes than this dark roast blast. Flavorful, but not to my overall taste.
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