Avery Hog Heaven

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

A dark amber color with a citrusy sweet hoppy smell. A hoppy beer good bitter aftertaste.

Hog Heaven pours a clear dark brown and red with a lot of head of course. The nose is fairly muted with what seems like a mild pineapple skin smell. The flavor is smooth with a fruity edge...maybe raspberry and oranges together....but just a little bit. Overall it is a smooth and even brew with little going against it.

Pours dark amber with swirls of white yeast with 3 cm of frothy head. Low carbonation eases the strength of the enormous hop flavor. Huge hops in nose and mouth, like sucking on a hop plant straight from the root. Big flavors of hops, earth, hogs, and grass. Robust bitterness. Medium carbonation and tremendous body. I’ve enjoyed this beer many a time and never tire of it. Amazing brew.

Great good god....bottled hops. A bit too much for the Dude. But I did finish the bomber. Power tool use prohibited.

Cloudy caramel-colored beer with very little head. Smells hoppy as hell, and tastes pretty much the same. Not that that’s a bad thing. Pretty darn good in fact. The 9.2% alcohol is hardly noticeable, so watch out. Very fine beer.

Bottle. Pours a deep amber colour. Aroma of hops indeed, good frutiness, quite sweet and piney. The flavour is sweet with a good hoppiness, fruity, toasted malt, caramel and alcohol. Bitter-sweet finish.

Pours a dark brown, with a sparse yellowed head. Smell is rich pit fruit, caramel, toffee, pineapple and alcohol. Taste is suprisingly low on alcohol for a barley wine. Just more of the asaid pineapple, along with apples, lemon and toffee/caramel malt. God barley wine, probably about 75th percentile for Barleywines. Good.

Hazy copper with an almond coloured creamy head generating nice lace. Grassy resinous hop aroma with sweet toffee. Sweet toffee palate generously supported by a hoppy bite, Sweet but not cloying, very enjoyable. Thanks Tyler_Durden!