Avery Karma Ale

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

Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head. The aroma and flavor focuses mostly on honey and candy sweetness, there is some malt presence too. The body is medium with a creamy texture and soft carbonation. An average effort to do belgian stuff.

(Bottle from Julio’s Liquors (MA)) Pours cloudy brownish orange with about 1/2" of off-white head. Aroma sweetly malty. Mouthfeel quite dry, a bit prickly. Some webby lacing. Flavor is some sweetish malt and a bit of fruitiness but is kind of pushed back by the dryness. Not much going on here taste-wise.

Pours a rusty amber color, off-white medium head. Light yeasty/bready/fruity malt aromas. Slightly off metallic/sour flavors (unlike other farmhouse/light Belgian ales I’ve had) as it warms but fairly refreshing. Fairly light body. Light, grainy malts and dry, earthy hops. Some characteristics reminds me all too much of a bad lager and it’s very boring, yet it’s very drinkable and refreshing, with some nice light Belgian ale notes.

Bottle. Orange amber body, moderate off white head. (3+) Mild metallic-glass notes that I suspect may be from the glass rather than the beer but can’t be sure. Mild muted roange, very mild grass. Aroma is pleasant but difficult to tease from the glass. Mild citrusy bitterness, exceptionally muted resim hides behind muted fruit and caramel malt. Average palate. This could potentially be quite dull but has just enough flavour to be quite drinkable and well balanced. <P> So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bottle. Copper, golden color, white head. Distinctly belgian in aroma, with bready, yeasty smell. Flavor is bready and biscuity up front, followed by a mild spice character, slightly sour finish. Expected more; not bad at all, but not too terribly exciting either.

This just isn’t my style of beer. Pours a light golden color, with a frothy eggshell head. Aroma is almost non-existent, it does however, have a hint of earthy hoppiness to it. Taste is spicy, nutty, and earthy with a flowery hop finish. All of these flavors are very subdued though. Makes for a beer that is just kinda, well...boring.

Bottled. Pours a cloudy orangey copper color with a medium-sized white head which leaves a fair bit of lacing. Smells a bit yeasty with some indiscernable spice to it. Super bland, almost tastes like toasted-tea-soda. Light carbonation. Blaaah!

Bottle. Pours a clear light orange body with a large fluffy white head. The aroma is fruity, sourish bread, and cookies. Kind of a blend between a saison and a bland American Pale - mild spicy hops, soft banana and other fruits, and some breadiness. Medium body. Kind of boring but it’s drinkable.