Avery Karma Ale

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Bottled. Light metallic, wet canvas aroma. A whiff of pungent grain, light sweetness, and some papery hops. Medium amber clear with thin off-white lacing head. Medium watery body with medium-light carbonation. Starts with medium caramel malt, light toasted grain, and mild acidity. Funky wet canvas and metallic taste persists, with odd papery hoppy characteristic in the finish. Very little bitterness to it, with a persistent overripe fruity note. Mild funky after, with a bit of cooked veggie in there, too. Not a very good beer, and poorly named considering what they’re ’putting out there’.

Courtesy mgumby and solan. Poured a golden yellow color with a thin white head. It smells of some sweet malts, citrus fruits, and a little bit of hops. The taste is pretty much the same with a dry finish. Not much going on with this one. It is medium bodied with a good amount of carbonation. Not bad, pretty drinkable.

Clear dark gold. Just a bit of off white head. Lightly sweet malt, grain, earthy and lighlt bitter hops, fruity and zesty yeast. Dry, yeasty finish. Medium body, a little more carbonated than balanced but still soft. Decent, drinkable.

Pours a syrupy looking orange amber, liquid is actually quite thin. The head is a very thin orange. The aroma shows sweet grapes, slight Belgian must, very sweet. The flavor is sweet, dry, vinous, grapes, mild alcohol, tad crappy. The palate was harsh and dry. Finishes dry with alcohol burn.

pretty underrated it seems..pours reddish copper with small off-white head..aroma of apricot, spice, yeast, and citrus hops..flavor of belgian yeast, citrus hops, green apple, and pine..dry, and rather bitter finish...not bad

Bottle. Pours a clear red amber color with a small off white head that dissipates quickly. The aroma is a sweet licorice with fruity undertones. Decent lacing on this one. The taste is a sweet peach with a clean finish and very easy to drink.

12 oz. bottle pours a coppery amber with a rater spare and diminishing light tan head. Once it warms a bit, the aroma is fairly pleasant: some light stone fruit and caramel. Medium body and carbonation and a very mild astringency. Overall, the flavor was fairly neutral, in the end leaning toward a light dryness. Pleasant enough, but without anything that makes it stand out, no individual character.

The 12 ounce bottle poured a crystal clear, reddish-amber colored beverage with a medium sized white creamy head that was entirely lasting and left great lacing on the glass. The aroma was a bit lighter than I would expect from the style however, it did have the characteristic fruitiness with a hint of spices loitering in the back. The body was medium with medium carbonation as well and a slightly dry texture. The flavor started out somewhat flat - neither sweet nor bitter - but there was a subtle spiciness to it. The finish was moderately long and it had a subtle alcohol warmth along with the persistent spiciness at the end.