Avery Ellies Brown Ale

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

Pours chocolate brown with a nice off-white lasting head. Nice balanced aroma of hop grassiness and malt warmth. Flavor is very balanced as well with brown sugar and caramel in the malt profile. Finish is moderately dry. Somewhat sweet but not to the degree of the Rogue Hazelnut Brown.

Brown with a steady off-white head. Slightly fruity with malt and molasses aromas. Rich sweet malt and caramel flavour.

Bottle. Dark brown color with a beige frothy head. Dark bread and milk chocolate malt aromas, with a bit of a soapiness or mineral essence. Chocolate and dark roasted coffee malt flavors, maybe some hazelnut. Roasty, charred leaf finish. Medium to full bodied. Pretty good as far as brown ales go. Plus, I’m a sucker for Labs on labels.

Dark ruby and just clear enough to see through. Palate was much creamier than I expected. There was a copmplex malt character revealing fruity, slightly sweet notes. Nice brown ale.

I, too have a chocolate lab and I love the label, but that seems to be were the love fest ends. 12oz bottle. 1-2 years old. Dark copper color, the same color as the last beer I had, a malty IPA. Head is sand colored. Aroma is malty, chocolate, almost a lactose type sweetness. Taste is malty with some tartness and chocolate as well as earthy hops. Overall, pretty blah. Maybe too old? Maybe not?

Bottled. A dark red-brown beer with a bubbly thick brown head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of caramel and nuts, but also with light notes of chocolate and hops. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of caramel, chocolate, and nuts, as well as lighter notes of vanilla, hops, and cream, leading to a dry woody and slightly bitter end. Dark bitter chocolate notes lingers in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is very smooth. This is how I like my brown ale.

Dark red-brown colored, big yellow head. Chocolate, toffee, mild hoppiness in sweet aroma. Medium bodied. Flavor is more roasted with coffee tones and some chocolate, bitter hops also there. Aftertaste is nicely hopped and bitter. Slightly too thin bodied and somehow watery palated.

Bottle. Brown, translucent body with minimal head that dies down quickly. Aromas are intersting: a bit of chocalte, some sugar and hazelnut. Even then, aromas are somewhat subdued. Flavor is better than aroma: chocolate is the main call, but there is a roasted malt that comes off more sweet than burnt, a touch of molasses, some toffee and a nutty/malty finish. The nut presence is very mild, but there. Body is a bit thin, but it works well with the flavoring and this is entirely enjoyable.