Rare Snack
Abomination Brewing Company
- From:
- Abomination Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 16%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.17 | pDev: 9.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 22, 2024
- Added:
- Jun 13, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Stout with rocky road ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate lava cake, peanut butter swirl, cheesecake, pound cake, caramel, french toast, whipped cream, pecans, and vanilla beans
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Seanjohnhunt from California
4.48/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.48/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
From the description of stuff thrown into this beer I was expecting to be blown away. I mean it sounds outrageous! Smells like a peanut butter waffle cake. Upon sipping it taste like french toasty cheesecake with some frosting. I have the feeling when drinking this it has maybe too much in it to pick out all the listed ingredients. As it warms up I get like maple syrup and vanilla. Don't get me wrong this beer is one of a kind! After the pour the top of the beer is oily and slick. This is a rare snack indeed and a meal in itself for sure.
Jul 07, 2024
Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
3.49/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
According to legend, the original Prairie Bomb! was created as a bit of a joke: just toss a bunch of different ingredients into an over-the-top, boozy bomb (heh) of a beer. However, it was such a hit, they moved it into full time production, and today it's arguably Prairie's most recognizable beer.
Well, Abomination said hold my beer (heh heh) and watch this.
This is truly an abomination (heh heh heh ... OK, I think I'm done here) of a concept. The list of dessert ingredients they tossed into this thing is utterly absurd, and the ABV is an astronomical 16% - not that you'd really notice as you chew your way through a diabetes haze.
Head production isn't bad, but retention is essentially ... not not bad (that means bad), as it immediately settles into a completely still, flat topper. On the plus side, I neither see nor feel any floaties or particulate, despite all the additives.
Aroma is mostly indistinct: slightly sharp and metallic, slightly nutty, and slightly cola ... err, cola-y. There really aren't any strong impressions, although I can perhaps convince myself that I notice a bit of cream, caramel, and chocolate.
Flavor and feel are where the beer finally start to deliver. Even then, there is room for criticism. It's very smooth and full bodied, and while there's some boozy heat, it's nothing compared to what old school 16% stouts felt like; in fact, it's less harsh than, say, Old Raspy. However, I expected it to be thicker and damn near chewy. This is a pastry stout that tried to include every dessert in the world, and in terms of mouth feel, it's easily a full tier below Angry Chair.
As for the flavor, in a completely unsurprising development, it's both very tasty and completely muddled. There was obviously no grand design in play, and just as obviously no testing and development; they took their Midnight Snack concept and turned that dial to eleven, then broke the detent and kept spinning until they settled on, "Yeah, that looks like enough bullshit."
All of those components are very tasty in their own right, and they're very tasty here, but damned if you could tell what each contributes beyond, perhaps, the sharp richness of the cheesecake. There's chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter, and caramel, but when you've added two different types of ice cream, three different kinds of cake, four flavorings, nuts, and freaking french toast (presumably just eggy, milky bread, but it's entirely possible that they went whole hog and cooked up a batch of french toast complete with maple syrup and cinnamon - hell if I can tell).
There's no way for any of these to really have their presence felt in such a melange; it's like We Are the World, but all the singers are a bunch of Mariah Careys, Rob Halfords, and Freddie Mercurys (Mercuries?) doing their best to shine the brightest and loudest. Like, 4 of each of them, at least (with some David Draiman "Ouh WHA-A-A-A" sprinkled in for effect).
All of that is to say ... this is a really tasty beer.
Oh, did you not get that from the review? It IS! It's really tasty!
But it's also the Snakes on a Plane of beers: it's ridiculous; it knows it's ridiculous; and it's less-than-stellar in spite of that self-awareness - but that doesn't mean that you can't still have fun with it.
Most Midnight Snack offerings are awesome. I'd put Abomination at 2nd tier in terms of pastry stouts, which is very high praise. This one is OK-to-good.
And hey, with 16 ounces of 16% ABV beer loaded with sugar, at the very least you're going to feel it (and suffer some serious palate fatigue).
Jun 13, 2024Well, Abomination said hold my beer (heh heh) and watch this.
This is truly an abomination (heh heh heh ... OK, I think I'm done here) of a concept. The list of dessert ingredients they tossed into this thing is utterly absurd, and the ABV is an astronomical 16% - not that you'd really notice as you chew your way through a diabetes haze.
Head production isn't bad, but retention is essentially ... not not bad (that means bad), as it immediately settles into a completely still, flat topper. On the plus side, I neither see nor feel any floaties or particulate, despite all the additives.
Aroma is mostly indistinct: slightly sharp and metallic, slightly nutty, and slightly cola ... err, cola-y. There really aren't any strong impressions, although I can perhaps convince myself that I notice a bit of cream, caramel, and chocolate.
Flavor and feel are where the beer finally start to deliver. Even then, there is room for criticism. It's very smooth and full bodied, and while there's some boozy heat, it's nothing compared to what old school 16% stouts felt like; in fact, it's less harsh than, say, Old Raspy. However, I expected it to be thicker and damn near chewy. This is a pastry stout that tried to include every dessert in the world, and in terms of mouth feel, it's easily a full tier below Angry Chair.
As for the flavor, in a completely unsurprising development, it's both very tasty and completely muddled. There was obviously no grand design in play, and just as obviously no testing and development; they took their Midnight Snack concept and turned that dial to eleven, then broke the detent and kept spinning until they settled on, "Yeah, that looks like enough bullshit."
All of those components are very tasty in their own right, and they're very tasty here, but damned if you could tell what each contributes beyond, perhaps, the sharp richness of the cheesecake. There's chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter, and caramel, but when you've added two different types of ice cream, three different kinds of cake, four flavorings, nuts, and freaking french toast (presumably just eggy, milky bread, but it's entirely possible that they went whole hog and cooked up a batch of french toast complete with maple syrup and cinnamon - hell if I can tell).
There's no way for any of these to really have their presence felt in such a melange; it's like We Are the World, but all the singers are a bunch of Mariah Careys, Rob Halfords, and Freddie Mercurys (Mercuries?) doing their best to shine the brightest and loudest. Like, 4 of each of them, at least (with some David Draiman "Ouh WHA-A-A-A" sprinkled in for effect).
All of that is to say ... this is a really tasty beer.
Oh, did you not get that from the review? It IS! It's really tasty!
But it's also the Snakes on a Plane of beers: it's ridiculous; it knows it's ridiculous; and it's less-than-stellar in spite of that self-awareness - but that doesn't mean that you can't still have fun with it.
Most Midnight Snack offerings are awesome. I'd put Abomination at 2nd tier in terms of pastry stouts, which is very high praise. This one is OK-to-good.
And hey, with 16 ounces of 16% ABV beer loaded with sugar, at the very least you're going to feel it (and suffer some serious palate fatigue).
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