Avery Hog Heaven

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Boulder, Colorado USA

Big offwhite head. Ruddy body. Fruity honeyish toffee and caramel aroma with floral sherry aroma. Dry-sweetish papery honey alcoholic taste with peppery spicy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild mouthfeel. Dry chalky alcohollic milky peppery citric aftertaste. Quite harmonic. Good and drinkable. Obviously cellared, and the better for it. (0.65l bottle.)

Ruby colour, creamy beige head, looks very nice, lots of lacing. Aroma is very hoppy, more lika a DIPA than a barley wine, pine, citrus, lemon, grass, straw. Flavour reminds me of Hercules, big bite, pine, lemon grapefruit resting on amalt backbone. This is good!Mouthfeel is smooth and sticky. I would never have pegged this for a BW nevertheless it is great! Serving type: bottle

Bomber. Sweet aroma with floral hops. Great flavor alcohol content hidden very well behind the sweet caramel and hops. Damn good beer

Dark amber/light red garnet in color. Nice one-finger head which dissipates rapidly to almost nothing. Fairly good lacing. Big sweet maltiness mixes with sharp spicey hoppiness. Fresh yeasty bread. Nice pine and slightly pepperey. Spicey/pepperey hops bite that is quickly balanced by a sweet caramel malt punch. Pretty big pine and grapefruit notes. Not quite the malty profile that I expected for a barleywine style. I think I’ll set a couple of bottles in the cellar to revisit in a year or two and see what happens to them. Feels good, yet kind of lighter than expected, for the style. Would benefit from abit more body. This is quite a drinkable bottle of beer. If I wanted a barleywine, though, I might reach for something else, before this one.

22oz bomber from grape & gourmet. pours a pure, copper-gold with a soft, light tan head and solid, sticky lacing. aroma is excellent and definitely hop-forward with big citrus notes of orange and grapefruit, big pine resins, and a bit of grass with some slight berry notes backed by sweet toffee, caramel, and dark malts. flavor is nice as well but a little bit more tame in terms of the hop notes with mostly orange citrus, bitter grassy notes, pine needles and earthy leaves, with a definite candy malt notes, toffee, and vanilla coming in on the finish without being overly sweet. palate is full bodied but highly drinkable thanks to the hops with a nice warming touch of alcohol. overall, a nice hoppy BW.

Bottle. Amber color with a slight chill haze. A nice sticky head leaves some lacings. The smell is hoppy with notes of grapefruit, pine-needles, hop resins and malts. Hints of sweet fruits. The flavor is sweet at first, before quite an impressive onslaught of bitter hops. It’s definitely hop forward wit prominent notes of pine-needles, grape fruits and tobacco leaves. But the malts shine through every now and then with hints of caramel, dark fruits and toffee. The finish is bitter with powerful hop aromas. The body is full, as expected. But the texture is quite easy on the palate, and in general the beer goes down really easy. A good beer, but I’m wondering if this one isn’t more of a DIPA than a Barley wine. Will be fun to see what some cellaring will do to it.

Bottle. Nose smells like a pillow bag of high test and from what I hear that was the brewers goal, mission accplished. Like a triple ipa strong although a bit rough around the edges. Strong, tastey, full bodied. Tastes a bit like liquid weed in the finish. Nice and interesting.

Bottle from Systembolaget. Pours a dark red color with a white foamy head which remains a while before it sinks down and becomes a small ring of foam. Aroma is hoppy with a clear malty background. Citrus, grapefruit, pine-needles and resin strucks me at first. There’s also a slight fruity berry-like note, caramel/toffee and fruit candy. Flavour is very hoppy and malty at the same time. As with the aroma there’s lots of citrus, grapefruit, pine-needle and resin. The sweet malty notes of caramel and fruit candy is also there together with something which I would describe as some "salty frog candy" I ate when I was younger. Finish is really brutal bitter, as expected from the high IBU. Body is full - this is a very filling beer. Carbonation is rather average with nice soft bubbles, the liquid is rather sticky. This is maybe not supercomplex but very tasty and drinkable. Feels like a session beer you could drink a lot of, if it wasn’t for the high ABV. Dangerous!