Avery Fourteen

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

750ml bottle. Pours a dark ruby-tinted brown with a solid mocha-colored head. Aroma is sweet and full of roasted malt, complemented by additional scents of coffee, caramel, dark fruit, and a bit of syrupy hops. Taste is full and sweet, with a strong initial flavor of dark fruit and hops opening up into a lingering finish that also reveals molasses, warming alcohol, and roasted malt. A big, complex brew that does Avery proud.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with tan head. Aroma of burned malt. Tastes sweet with notes of prunes and raisins. Nice ale.

Thx for another great tasting, Kim (Beljohansen) !!! Dark, cafe au lait head, burned malt, chokolate, sweet

Bottle. Very intriguing aroma of chocolate, molasses, and an unusual array of dark to medium fruits, plum, apricot, some berry, some tropical notes. Flavor kind of a letdown, I felt the hops to an extent clashed with the fruit flavors and left an impression of weirdness. Mouthfeel was also not strong enough to support all the flavors it was carrying. Certainly an interesting brew, not unpleasant, and I’m always a sucker for originality, just fell a touch short for me.

Bottle. Poured an opaque, deep brown almost black with a slight dark tan head. Aroma of chocolate, dark fruits. Taste of chocolate, molasses, raisins, prunes, a faint hop presence. A complex arrangement of flavors. Sweet and rich mouthfeel. I really liked this one.

22 oz bottle, via dirty_martini. Pours a dark mahogany brown body with a large craggy foamy beige head that coated the glass with lace. The nose is quite pungently hoppy with lots of floral quality. Heavy malt base as well, nuttiness, caramel, coffee, brown sugar, there’s a lot going on here. The flavor is quite an odd combination. Biting floral and perfumy hops, very intense on the finish. Heavy burnt caramel and brown sugar maltiness clings to the cheeks and lingers forever. Seems like it’s trying to be lots of stuff at the same time, and it’s not doing any of them especially well. Full bodied and sticky with a clingy syrupy finish. Moderate fizzy prickly carbonation. Not too big of a fan of this one.

Bomber. Very dark brown beer that is tried this again recently, still a nice drinker, but nothign too special. nearly black. There is some light brownish red at the edges with a light uellowish head on top. The aroma has some rich caramel and booze. There is also some chocolate covered cherries. The taste is dark chocolate covered cherries with some rum. There are prunes and some light tobacco notes. Surprisingly good and this approaches a stout.

22oz bomber proportioned in a snifter. Pours dark reddish brown with thick beige head initially with some longevity finishing as a thin film throughout the glass. Honey, hops, and dark fruit, possibly metallic aroma. Taste of dark fruit with brown sugar and nice hop finish. I think I like Stone 11th better, but this is very nice.