Avery 14er ESB

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Boulder, Colorado USA

Clear orange with a large, foamy head. Fair lacing. Aroma is citrus and earth hops, and caramel malt. Taste tends to accentuate the hops. Bitter and slightly metallic finish.

Light golden color with a nice aroma of floral hops with caramel malts. Taste is pleasant, with a nice hop/malt balance that is just sweet and bitter enough. A bit on the average side, but a quality ESB nonetheless.

Bottle; pours a slightly cloudy golden honey color with a frothy off-white head that dissipates down to a thin layer of foam; good lacing. Nice floral hoppy aroma of citrus, pine and a touch of caramel. A bitter hops bite throughout the taste that lingers just a touch. There’s a bit of a malty taste in the middle that seems to try to come through, but ends up being a bit distracting and gets easily drowned out in all the bitter hops. Overall not put togeher too well.

Clear light amber pour, diminishing off white head. Not really any lacing. Very hoppy aroma, malt profile seems a little too sweet. Taste confirms this, hops throttling the palate and caramel malt lagging far behind. An ESB only in the loosest sense of the term. I find myself totally disagreeing with the description on the bottle here. This beer is too one dimensional and overzealous with the hops. I’d prefer their IPA as my Avery session beer of choice. Aroma is nice enough, but it’s only mildly drinkable, rough around the edges. Bring back the malt, Adam.

12 oz bottle from Total Wine. Pours a cloudy amber/copper color with a minimal head. Light aroma of hops and some herbal tones. Taste is nice, easy drinking. Me like it.

Pours a pale, lightly hazy copper with a persistent, dense ivory head. Sheeting lace on the glass. Smells of bitter herbal hops. Taste is much like the smell, lots of herbal, bitter hops. Malt profile is almost undetectable. Mouth is thin. Hops linger in the aftertaste. This is OK but very heavy handed with the hops and very one-dimensional.

Pours amber with a fully receding tan head. Aroma of blueberries, flowery hops, and spicy yeast. Taste is citric, hoppy, and flowery. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with lively carbonation. Not bad, pretty enjoyable.

It’s a dark golden beer with at large, creamy and very lasting head. The aroma is characterized by aroma hops and a bit of caramel. I also find a lot of aroma hops and notes of fruit and caramel and a light sweetness in the flavour, before a nice, but not extreme, bitterness hits the tongue. Yet another nice beer from Avery.