Avery Brabant

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Pours brown with a small off white head. Aroma is sour fruit, wood, and leather. Flavor is sour fruit, then oak, and funk with a tart finish.

Pours dark brown with an off white head. Aroma has notes of sour fruit, oak, and earthiness. Flavors are oak, fruit, and a sort of muskiness. Mouthfeel has a sour like acidicness and finishes with a slight tartness.

Spectacular find (for me) at the Plaza in Arizona. Pours like a belgian abby ale but as soon as you take the first sip you get those rich, complex oak tones. Not overwhelming by any means but a wonderful addition-makes the beer complicated, rich. Well worth the $9 a bottle!

12oz bottle at home on September 23, 2009. Wow! What a beer! The zin barrel-ing really adds a punch. Darker than I expected. Sour, almost cherry-like wine aroma. Mouthfeel wet and smooth. Flavor, well, like a Belgian-style beer/wine mix. The combination reminds me of a distilled liquor, maybe a bourbon. Wine-like finish. Definitely unique!

Pours a dark chocolate brown with a thin tan head. Nose is vibrant with sour cherry, date and funk (in a good way). The sour fruit hits first and then it kind of loses me. A lot going on, wood tanins, slight chocolate and something of a farmhouse funk that does grow on you. Just a bit too much going on but definitely something to try.

Bottle, $8.99. Pours dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is quite vinous, with red plum, grapes, and soft horse-y notes. Very funky and pleasant as it warms. Palate is medium, softly carbonated, with a long, sticky finish. Flavor is quite intense, as expected. Quite sharp on the initial intake, the first wave of flavors include moldy bread, dark wood and sour fruit. In the middle, this layers nicely with dry chocolate and dark fruit, creating quite a formidable array of flavors. Finish is long and clammy, with the zinfandel aging showing nicely. As this beer warms, it turns out that the “sour-wood-chocolate” essence it what stays. Certainly not an unpleasant aftertaste.

poured black small tan head that lasted a while hat faded to good lacing. smelled of sour bourbon. tasted like sour candy and bourbon.

Bottled 2/10/09. Poured an opaque dark brown color. The head was tall and light brown with good retention and lacing. Complex aroma profile that included the likes of fruity Pez candy and subdued funky red wine vinegar. There was also a whiff of roasty malt. Medium bodied and dry with minimal acidity. Some light bitterness emerged at the end. I tasted oak, cherry, light red wine, orange, and a splash of vinegar.