Avery Fourteen

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

Poured a mostly clear very dark amber color with a beige head. Spicy and smokey phenols in the aroma. Some choclate notes as well. The flavor is sweet, fruity, spicy and roasty. The body is medium to full with some alcohol warmth. Somewhat dry finish.

Pours a dark copper color with a light tan head. Aroma is of molasses, citrus hops, caramel, dark fruits, and some alcohol. Very complex aroma. Starts of with sweet malts, molasses, citrus hops and some toasted malts. MIddle flavor is of dark fruits and nuts. Finishes with floral hops and alcohol to give it a delicious ending. I really enjoyed this brew.

Pours a deep brown with tons of ruby red highlights and a medium creamy off white to light tan head and left nice lacing. Aroma of molasses, light toasted malts, mango, banana, citrus, some toffee, nuts, caramel, dark fruits and nuts. Flavor of molasses, earthy, pine, some citrus buried in there, nuts, toasted malts, dark fruits, roastiness, light alcohol. Congrats to Avery on 14 and thanks for keeping it interesting. Really did destroy style boundaries here yet still created a solid brew.

Brown beer that turns more red when you hold it to the light. Fairly thick off-white head. Imagine my surprise when I take a sniff and come up with some tangerine smelling west coast hops! Beyond that there’s molasses and roasted coffee in there. I was well prepared for the citrus I got from the first taste and rather happy about the raw blackstrap molasses in the middle. The Finish? Maybe a little rough. A tad boozy which I expect from Avery offerings. For some reason, American beers seem to rarely get the carbonation levels right on these Belgian attempts. The carbonation is lively but not in that super spritzy mountain of head way. Forget about the finish then, these suckers are good! Congrats to Avery for Fourteen Years of brewing!

Dark brown, near black pour with a thick and volumnious tan head. Huge hoppy aroma but with underlying roasted malt, coffee and dark, dried fruit. Flavor is really remarkable. Warming alcohol is evident up front. Middle has more dark fruit, cherry, vanilla, oak, resinous citrus hops. Red wine towards the finish. Long, bitter with a light smack of hops. Only thing I’m not digging is the abv which is evident from the aroma to the finish. Besides that, this is a GREAT beer from Avery.

Glassy, burgundy and mahogany shades. Head retention couldn’t be more perfect. A young barleywine nose of licorice, red pepper, molasses, candied dark fruits, and whiskey. Floral hops hint with a soft kiss at the start and finish. Top heavy and crushingly sweet flavor. Raspberries and blackberries in a rye whiskey mash. Woodsy with a smoke and vanilla bean rum taste. A dark shade of peat begins to temper the dense sweetness toward the end. Dry, earthy bitterness at the very finish. Burns on the smack a bit, and alcohol generally dominates the palate. Full and reasonably smooth in spite of this. Difficult to drink – a bomber could happily be split six or seven ways.

What an oustanding beer, opaque color, very dark brown, couldn’t see through the glass, modest tan head with great lacing, very sweet nose with notes of honey & molasses, lots of body, certainly more of a sipping beer, one to be enjoyed, rich & complex flavors, a hint of dry & hoppy notes to add balance, flavors of honey, molasses, caramel & burnt toast, bitter & hoppy finish with more malt to follow, a fantastic brew

Pours a dark brown color. Big hoppy, floral aromas. Roasted malt flavors with that characteristic avery alcohol bite on the backside. Red fruit flavors linger in your mouth for a while. Sweetness is there too.