Avery Fourteen

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

Pours a dark reddish ruby red brown, clear, with a thin tan head. Sweeter malt and alcohol. Some toast, slight roast, a little caramel. Some small cinnamon. Thinner low carbonation body. Boozy slightly sweet. A little toasty astringency. Some small roast. Not the deepest. Some chocolate. Alcohol finish.

this was pretty alright, for an avery. the dry hopping was pretty evident. it was otherwise pretty malty. plum colored with some dirty head. i was pretty drunk and tried to rate it at the time but couldn’t figure out how to log in on my friend’s computer. i’ll probably never have it again, so this crappy rating will have to suffice.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus, courtesy of an ohio dad trade. Pours a Dark Amber with a fruit/molasses aroma and tin. Alcohol and fruit flavor. It was good but I was slightly dissapointed.

Dark ruby color with thin tan head. Aroma is of brown sugar and a hint of hops and alcohol. Bitter pithy citrus rhind taste with sweet malt that keeps up with it. Too much of both for my liking, though. Better luck next year, Avery $7/22oz

22 oz. bottled in 2007 poured into a Trappist glass has a a black color with red highlight when held to the light. carbonation is fairly steady and there is a nice looking tan layer on the surface that seemed to erupt from the center through the whole glass. aroma consists of tons of dark ripe fruit, brown sugar, malt, spicy yeast, and molasses. I’m thinking at this point that this one is a real treat. flavor is just as the nose with gobs of plumb, raisin, prune, creamy molasses malt, quite chewy with hops and yeast spices mixing very nicely. mouth feel is complementary coating the tongue with a medium body. alcohol is faintly noticeable and there is a light hit of anise finishing with back round dry hops and some malted bitter. this is well balanced and one of the best i have tried from Avery.

On tap. Poured a dark mix of ruby and brown with an ample off-white head. Solid lacing for most of the glass. The aroma was slight hints of smoke with lots of sugary sweetness and raisin. The flavor was overly sweet and I struggled initially to find much beyond the initial sugary blast. As it opened up, the fruit, molasses and tobacco came out. Sticky, almost cloying mouthfeel. Seemed very young. Try cellaring this one.

22oz bottle. Deep dark brown-red with a large rocky light brown head. Some nutty and toasty malt aromatics underneath a heavy metallic citrus and fruity ester character. Caramel, dark alefruit, and choco-roasty bitterness. Prominent hop component, floral and vegetal. Conflicted finish with residual hop bitterness, alefruit, and a dusty patina. Mouthfeel is a heavy medium, somewhat sticky.

Thanks to rsamayoa. Bottle: @ rateberians informal gathering. malty, smokey, earhty and woody, nice balance conplex and well balanced.