Avery Fourteen

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

Bottle, RBESG Grand Tasting 07. Very dark copper, thin beige head. Nose is sweet hoppy/malt balance, packed with sweet alcoholic fruitness. Grapefruity, but alcohol kills it it a bit. Mouth is quite bitter malty roasted bite. Some dry hop grassiness. Rather nice.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours deep brown with a red hue and a slight light brown creamy head. Dried fruit malty aroma. Heavy dried fruit flavour, dry. Slight sweet and liqourice note reaching the finish with a nice level of bitterness. Nice balance and a good flavourfull brew.

(RBESG 2007, Glasgow. Bottle) Dark amber color, brown head. Malty and milky aroma. Creamy, malty chocolate flavor, some fruit andsome caramel notes.

On draft at Sunset Grill in Allston, MA. Pours very dark with a decent head. The aroma is a bit difficult to pin down. Very strong flavour hits you initially. Lots of sweetness from the alcohol. Flavour is strong, but I didn’t find it particularly deep. This one came off as too sweet overall for me.

22 oz. bottle. Bottled in 2007. A near-opaque brownish pour with a finger-thick mocha head that leaves rings of lace. A sweet and malty aroma that features lots of brown sugar, ripe apples, pears, some caramel and molasses. Full-bodied. Roasty and quite sweet upfront. Raisins, molasses and red apples are all present. Finishes with some tingly, drying hoppiness. Alcohol is noticeable, but not over the top.

22 oz bottle. Poured a clear deep reddish-brown color. Head was thick and light tan with good retention and lacing. Aroma was a combination of grassy hops, roasted nuts, and molasses. There were also occasional whiffs of anise, clove, and sassafras. Roasty and sweet up front with delicate acidity at the end accompanied by a touch of alcohol and lingering moderate hop bitterness. Overall, the alcohol flavor is minimal despite the almost 9.5% AbV. Malty molasses, toasted bread, and subdued clove round out the flavors. Not a bad beer.

22 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a dark brown color with a large, two finger thick light tan head that slowly dissipates. Lots of thick lacing. Aroma is toasted malt, esters, and floral hops. Flavor has lots of malt. Light roasted malt with a touch of chocolate and some light esters. It also has a touch of PNW hops in the flavor. Medium body. Smooth palate. Alcohol is slightly noticeable. I like beers. Throw a bunch of shit in there and see what you come up with. Good job Avery. Much better than the last couple anniversary beers.

22 oz bottle. I poured into a pint glass to find the beer matched the color of the dark brown bottle it came in. Very creamy head that stuck around, reminiscent of a creamy stout. Aroma was a bit faint but provided hints of "something Belgian." Taste was unimpressive and difficult to describe (nothing at all like a DIPA, tho). As others have pointed out, it’s all over the place. It does go down quite smoothly. I’ve had much better beers from Avery and I’ll look elsewhere.