Avery Fourteen

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

(bottle - 22 oz) Murky brown pour with a thick tan head. About an inch of foam. Aroma is light with hints of dark malts, alcohol, and molasses. Flavor is bitter and malty at the beginning with a creamy and sweet middle and a very warming and bitter finish. Aftertaste is a mixture of malts, dark fruits, and molasses.

Bottle. Dark brown-ruby body with a large frothy yellowish-white head and oily lace. The aroma has plenty of fruits - orange, pineapple, and some sweet bread. Oily palate with chewy hops and bitter oranges. Not overly bitter though and finishing with pineyness. Pretty good but I didn’t find it to have much complexity.

From bottle@Københavnske Øldage 2009. Low, dense beige cream head. Opaque, dark brown body. Aroma is sweetish malty and hoppy. Some acidulous fruits, spices and roastedness. Sweet-flavored, rich roasted malty and distinct fruity, earthy and resinous hop bitter. Near full-bodied. Hoppy bitterness goes on in a long finish. Very good stuff, powerful and nicely balanced.

dark, almost black, with a large creamy tan head. aroma is very belgian with yeast, candy sugar, alcohol, hops, fruit cake, licorice. lots of scents to decipher. flavor introduces the dark quality with some chocolate and molasses but its still very deceiving. lots of belgian qualities with candy sugar and the yeast. lots of licorice and hops. also quite a heavy pounding of alcohol. lots of 2ipa qualities. what the hell is this?? a cross between and 2ipa and a belgian strong?

Ebony-brown with mahogany hues. Creamy light-beige head holds well and contributes ample lace. Confused and unrefined aroma reveals mint, watermelon seeds, black chocolate, stale tobacco, peach, and roasted malt. Overbearingly resinous and grassy. Obviously-forced carbonation quickly falls out of suspension before depositing a terribly fuzzy residue on the palate. Cool breaths of mint erupt from the combination of alcohol and hops, and soon give way to snappy, barky roast and toffeeish Munich. Bitterly piney and stewed peachy as well as harshly roasty. Rather than sporting a clean and poignant bitterness, the hop character is fairly dirty, muddled and lacking in definition. Gooey resins intensify by the second, leaving little to no room for any bright hop flavors to exude. Plummy esters are appealing, but only compound the gooeyness of the hops and poor attenuation/tackiness. Alcohol is well concealed. Finishes intensely resinous, but mostly flabby and limply hoppy, with notes of sherbet, grapefruit peel and bittersweet chocolate. Styrians are among my favorite hops, but the copious amounts used here have done little to help this. No restraint or finesse here at all. The hops, particularly in the nose, are so overbearing they begin to mirror cheese curd (not in that pleasant farmhouse kind of way, either). This comes across as a discordant mess more than anything else. And while I hate to sound like a broken record, if Avery would have put forth the extra effort and bottle conditioned this, it would be markedly improved. Attenuation could also use some work here (quite low), but the appearance is pretty good (for being force carbonated *doh* there’s that word again).

I kinda liked this one. Dark, not quite opaque, purplish color, in the porter vein, with dark nutty and chocolatey malts. But this beer was about the hops, a piney and grapefruity aroma, and a big resiny flavor leading to a certain bitter finish. Dry. Pleasing. I like how caramelized malts were not over-used, and this beer thus avoided the trap of an overly thick and resinous mouthfeel, while still combining the best features of hops and dark malts.

Pours very dark brown with a very dense tan head. The aroma is weird and unique - tropical fruits, hops, locker room, spice, coconut and dark malt. Medium / full body with quite a bit of sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with a fruity sweetness and tropical hops (simcoe?), light roasted malt and some Belgium earthiness. The finish has spice hops, pineapple, coconut, light citrus and lots of malt. A unique and interesting beer. I hope to find this again and possibly rerate with a new perspectives.

Deep ruby in colour, large and lingering tan coloured head, good lacing. The aroma is very hoppy with pine and citrus, caramel malt sweetness and noticable alcohol. The flavour has lots of alcohol, I actually found it to be dominated by alcohol, noticable hops, caramel malt sweetness and a bizarre unexplainable bitterness. Bitter mouthfeel, medium/large body, medium/high carbonation. Finishes long with lots of alcohol and lots of hops. This has intense alcohol and is very hoppy making this another one-dimentional Avery beer for my tastes.

650ml bottle shared by <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>mds, thanks Mike.
Opened on June 22, 2007.
Vintage 2007 of course.