Avery Brabant

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

12oz. bottle served into my Duvel tulip glass. Pour is deep brown/black with a off white head. Aromas of tart funk, dark fruits, and a slight red wine hint. Flavor is light with some brett funk, sourness, and tanic wine qualities. An interesting brew to say the least but it seems to be missing something.

12 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown with beautiful hints of ruby. Tan two fingered head. Hints of grape, raisin, orange, with a touch of the zin aroma. very full bodied that bounces off the tongue. Little caramel sweetness followed by a sharp sour then a lingering dry Zinfandel finish. This picked up more wine than expected and is a great bridge beer. Another great complex beer from Avery.

12oz bottle 7/24/09 (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a deep dark brown with a big tan head. Aroma of malts, fig, brett, red wine, and oak. Taste is of red wine, vinegar, raspberries, and brettt. This full bodied beer is pretty tasty and an interesting beer. Good job.

Smells absolutely brilliant and reminds me of cuvee de tommee...deep dark malts sharply accented with sour fruits, touch of smoke, red wine, and chocolate raspberries. The beer is dark with a swirly thin top. Thick mouth giving way to a dark flavor profile..reduced red wine & brett...not much else is very evident...the wine and brett simple embody everthing...its strangely unsweet and I get a somewhat medium high hopping in there. Somewhat one-dimensional, but its steaming with effort and I think my other bottle will age quite nicely.

12oz bottle-pours a tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is oak, wine, dark malt, vinuous, funky. Taste is oak, wine, dark malt, vinuous, funky/tart, bitter. Dry. Thanks to russpowell for trade with Joe-jwc215 and me.

12 oz. bottle. Bottled 2/10/09 Tasted 7/12/09 with Gsbe. Pours a thick head of long duration, over a dark, (SRM 40) body....nose is vinuous, reminscent of Balsamic Vinegar, barnyard funk, horse hide....taste initially is barnyard, horse stall, sourness floats through, lingering brett. A very interesting and incredibly complex beer and an interesting experiment.

Strong aroma of babyfood prunes, grapes, and musk. Dark brown with a thick tan head, good lacing. Musky, vinous, prunes, currants, and raisins. Understated bark finish. Harsh acidic mouthfeel.

Bottle. Moderate aromas all around, toasted for the malt, flowers and herbs for the hops earth fort he yeast, with background notes of grape, cask wood, charcoal and vinegar, Head is fizzy, light brown with virtually no lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is dark brown with a red tint. Flavor starts moderately sweet and acidic, and acetic then finishes moderately acidic, lightly bitter and acetic. Palate is medium, oily and has a lively to fizzy carbonation. An interesting beverage as far as taste goes. Seems stuck between a wine and a beer.