Avery Brett IPA

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Boulder, Colorado USA

(Draught) Pours a hazy orange body with a small white head. Aroma of leather, floral, citrus, barnyard, and horse blanket. Flavor of brett, hops (floral, herbal, citrus), and caramel malt.

2008 GABF week @ Avery. Unfiltered hazy gold color with a white head. Weird funky brett band-aid nose... the brett is the same used in 15th Anniversary, and sorry, I just can’t stand it... not sure if it’s the particular strain or just how Avery uses it, but it really just comes off far too heavy with the band-aid and plastic phenol notes. Old cheese, feet funk... I mean, that sort of stuff is good when you do it right - see Chouffe, Zinnebir and Taras Boulba - but here nearly all of the hop character is gone from the IPA, and it’s just a messy, band-aid heavy mess... smells like your foot after it’s been wrapped in gauze for a week.

Draught, Avery. Head is mostly lasting. Body is dark yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, cookie), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers), moderately yeasty (barnyard, horseblanket), with notes of gum, band-aid, and manure. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. The Brett is a little rough and too far out in front, but otherwise pretty fun.

On tap @ Avery Tasting room poured a hazy orange with a small lasting ivory head. Aromas of barnyard, earthiness, horseblanket, light carmel, lioght leather and light spice. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry lightly tart finish. Flavors of carmel, straw, horseblanket, barnyard, earthiness and light pine with a smooth dry lingering bitter finish.

Draught at Avery, GABF week 2009. Pours clear dark yellow with an average frothy white head, somewhat lasting with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, grain, straw, cereal), heavy hop (flowers, grass, pine, grapefruit), heavy yeast (horse blanket, barnyard, cheese, earth) with notes of pepper, ginger, and coriander. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness and acidity, heavy bitterness.

Tap at brewery, GABF ’09.
Pours a deep cheddar orange with a woodsy, cedar orange nose. Flavor is a nice musty grapefruit with cedar chunks. Coating mouthfeel. An interesting experiment that works.

GABF 2008 @ Avery. This was fantastic. Hazy orange color with a decent amount of head. Hops and a funky faintly citrus barnyard with a sour hint on the aroma. Exceptionally bitter body with the funky brett finish from the 15. This was a great way to start of the festivities at Avery (and for GABF for that matter!).

Straw colored pour w/ viz carbonation and a big whtie well coated head that laces well. Good well coated palate. Flavor is a west coast IPA hints of tangerine w/ the grapefruit and grass a tiny bit of sourness comes through in the aftertaste. Aroma of graepfruit and grass w/ hints of an earthy dirt & horseblanket. Good but odd, not heavily funked.