12 oz bottle. Packaged on 4/21/22.

Confession up front. I love The Abyss, but I generally I dislike stouts that have been infused with unnecessary things such as coconut. Where that leaves us here I have no idea … yet.

Pour is exactly as I would expect. I deliberately go aggressive to yield the big mocha head on top of a jet black body. All light excluded.

I get absolutely zero cocunut in the nose, this seems like a regular Abyss in terms of the smell.

The first tastes are a bit like an Abyss with the licorice removed, This could be a function of temperature or I suppose a function of the coconut, BUT at the same time the coconut doesn’t come through at all. Then, in the far back end, all the way back and as the beer finishes, there it is, a little burst of coconut. However, this is NO way a coconut forward stout. I mean, The Abyss will repel such a thing, right?

Alcohol is not present, at least not at the 14.3% advertised level, and it only cuts in across the back end and after a lot of warming. Insanely hidden; insanely drinkable.

The usual, viscous coating in the mouth, God I love the base beer even if I find not much merit in the adjunct here.

In the end the coconut is so light that I don’t get it much at all, BUT it does seem to temper the base beer. This ends of up niter one thing or the other, and you could be a coconut lover or and Abyss lover and this beer won’t do much for you either way. If you’re the former find a true coconut forward beer, if you’re the latter just drink the original.