Avery Fourteen

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

22 oz bomber. Yeah I love this company. Once again Avery delivers with a unique ber for unique people. Pours an almost solid black with a large light brown frothy head that begs to be drank. Big citrus hop aroma with lots of chocolate in the background, slight pine but mostly an alcohol orange chocolate come to mind as I sniff this beauty. Body is solid with noticable carbonation on the back of my throat a quickly disipating palate and a medium body. Flavor of grapefruit, chocolate, malt, raisin bread and alcohol. Despite my horrible description this is one decent beer!! Go try some for something different for something that works!!

Fluffy head on a big body. Some spice and citrus hops on the aroma with a lot of sugary sweetness. Taste is smooth and sweet with some molassess and grain with some earthy hops. Nice and aging well.

Pours a blackish rootbeer color w/ a full, semi creamy froth. Hangtime is forever finally receding to a thick, latherous lacey blanket. Aromas of sweet malted hopped up charcoal. Full nectar w/ a delayed effer reaction. It sets on your palate flat then fumes forward a creamy textured nectar. This brew is very strongly flavored w/ a serious roast component. Theres a defined spicey Belgian character that emerges while the brew goes down. Fat chewy malts give way to charcoal roasted hop blades. Moderately sweet w/ flavors of beef jerkey, flora spice, iodine, molases, angostura bitters, medicine, tar, citrus rind, black cherry, dried plums. The citrus rind doesn’t blend well w/ the medicinal unit. It throws the flavors off a bit. Maybe some time in storage will mellow it out a bit. After a time the hopsy character will give way like the Berlin wall and the malt will shine through. It’s like the brew is held captive by hopsy blades of steel. The finish is long w/ a sharp bittering that cuts through the fat. Overall: this brew is very rich needing time to develope.

22 oz bottle pours mahogany with a dense soapy head. Aroma is fruity. Oak, cherry chocolate, brown sugar. Chocolate brown sugar flavors with tar, licorice, and alcohol. Sweet and really tasty at first. But then it just becomes too sweet and too much alcohol. Slight bitterness in the end. Bah, its too much.

Big dark color and off white head make this a beautiful looking beer. Lots of malt with some fruit and sugar in the nose Smoky malt taste with some hops tucked away in the flavor. As it warmed up, the flavors really started to stand out. Very smooth finish and sneaky alcohol strength. I liked it, but just like a lot of Avery beers, be careful of the sensory onslaught. Not for the faint of drink.

22 oz bomber. Pours a dark amber with mahogany hues and a thick foamy light brown bordering on beige head. Complex aroma of spicy vanilla, molasses and dark fruit. Taste is spicy wood and vanilla with a massive malty presence. Slight detection of molasses and smoke as well. Quite different and a little too much for my taste buds.

Black, darkest ruby edges. Huge, dense, spongey tan head. Very nice looking pour. Aroma is spicy, tart, perfume, fresh almond/walnut, light dose of cotton candy, toasty malt, chocolate, dark fruits- great nose. Flavor has hints of smoke, spicy and lightly tart and airy yeast, the same nuts, rich chocolate/caramel, and spicy, floral, and subtly resinous hops in the finish. Aftertaste of past ripe citrus zest and airy yeast. Full/medium body, well carbonated yet soft. Solid.

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.