Avery Fourteen

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

22 oz. bottle - pours very dark amber, yet crystal clear against the light; creamy head brings out the sugary sweet aromas; fruity flavors stronger than expected and don’t really match well with the pleasant aromas; so a pretty good brew overall, but slightly off the mark for my palate

Bottle. Sweet resinous hops on the nose. Dark dry roasted malt. A tad soapy. Dried fruits. Coffee. Alcohol. Pours dark, oily brown with deep amber highlights. Very sticky lacing all the way down the glass. Big flavor profile: lots of hops and malt. Fairly dry. molasses. Floral hops turn piny as it warms. Big, rich and slightly oily on the palate. A very big and complex beer, but perhaps a tad unbalanced. Less alcohol presence and more integrated flavors and this bad boy would score in the mid 4’s.

Impressive,raisiny, root beer, chocolate cake, molasses, aroma, a real malt explosion,taste is sweet chocolates laced with dark fruit and anise,a hints of that root beer taste, faint but distinct hops in the aftertaste, thought body would be a hair thicker,with the 1.090 OG ,alcohol not that noticeable. Would classify this an old ale. Delicious

The 1st Avery I had that I didn’t enjoy.Pours a dark cola color with a nice pillowy head.Malty aroma with a small flavor of hops and other things I just couldn’t figure out.It was drinkable till it warmed then it hit the gag reflex.I will definately try it again because I know this can’t be right.

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.

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!

cola colored, tan head, clear, fair lacing. i get the aroma of raisins (maybe the described molasses?) and belgian yeast...oh and alcohol too. flavor is light alcohol, mild hoppiness (spicy?). This is a weird beer. I drank half of it before rating it and could not peg the style at all. This one is all over the place, at least to my palate.

Aroma is very hoppy, with scents of fresh hops coming right of the bottle upon opening. Color is a deep ruby amber with good carbonation and a thick, tight, tan head. Taste is bold, piney and roasted. Starting with a full body it goes down with a some what sharp feel that leads you to think it is going to be rich. Finish burst out of this with a citrus hop flavor that has a bold pine flavor coming out. All of this turns to a full bitterness then somehow morphs into a roasted malt flavor that leaves you with an almost coffee like taste. I feel this may be the most complexly flavored beer they have done. It seems to change flavors as you drink it and is bold and rich yet easy to drink. The more I drink the more I like it. This is just an amazing beer.