Avery Fourteen

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

Darker brown pour with a medium tan-beige head. Aroma is sweet with some dominant citrus and floral hops along with some nice rye and darker fruit. Flavor has a pleasant grass/citrus hoppiness wth some rye, honey, molasses, and a good overall sweetness. Nice brew - would be extremely unique if it weren’t for Stone 11th Anniversary - it doesn’t match the Stone, but its still a really good brew!

(Bottle) Pours a dark reddish brown colour with a creamy off white head. The aroma is a strange mix of grapefruit/herbal/resin like hops, spices like white pepper and cinnamon, fruity with canned pineapples and dried bananas, dark fruits like plums and raisins, some tart berries and malty tones of caramel, chocolate and nuts. Hints of celery, nettles and cucumber. The flavour is spicy, fruity, hoppy and malty. Chocolaty, caramelly some grapefruit and oranges, bananas and cinnamon. The mouthfeel is smooth, creamy, soft and a bit numbing from the hops. Medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Medium to full bodied. Very malty with a little bit of everything, strange.

Shared at Butters Big Blowout, which Barrios picked for his 400th rating. Very dark brown pour with red highlights and solid dark tan head with good lacing. Nose is rummy, bourbon, i’d almost think this is oak aged, hints of ginger. Complex melding of molassis, milk chocolate, oak, vanilla. Medium full body with a creamy texture. Terrific job of hiding the alcohol.

$5 pint at Pizza Port Carlsbad. One finger head that dies to a dense creamy blanket over the deep dark opaque reddish brown liquid. Alchohol nose is strong, a bit phenolic. Taste of raisins, brown sugar, which covers the mild hop bitterness. A bit too heavy for me, I hate to say, but maybe with cheese it would be much easier to swallow.

Bottle. Pours a deep dark brown body with thin head. aroma is choclate, malt, soy sauce, lite hops. Flavor is bitter, lightly hopped, sweet malt and chocolate. Thick mouthfeel. I wish I could have drank this one fresh to experience some of the hoppiness people were talking about.

Bomber from Sam’s Blue Light. Pours is dark, dark, brown with a small tan head. Nose is very fruity and hoppy with some notes of funky earth. Flavor is creamy with chocolate, hops, roasted malt, molasses. This beer is all over the place. Definitely has some belgian characteritics, but also has a hoppy character and dark roasted malts. An interesting beer, but Im not sure it really works that well. Maybe it would improve with age, but Im not sure. Guess there’s only one way to find out.

ehh, not impressed. Bomber poured into a tulip glass. Black body with a tan head. Smell is leafy green hops with light grainy cereal. Taste is again green hops with faint alcohol. A lightly syrupy mouthfeel, lightly undercarbonated, low bitterness. Just kind of uninteresting, one-dimensional, and boring. Its all about this leafy green hops and I am not interested.

22oz bomber-A dark brown body with a nice tight tan head which emits an aroma of hops, sweetness, malt, and a little chocolate. Taste of this full bodied brew comes across with malt, slight alcohol, sweetness, chocolate, and malt on the back end. A nice tasting brew but not getting the hops on the back end like everyone else so I don’t know if it is the age of the bottle or my taste buds.