Avery Salvation

Pours gold into a trappist glass. Malt, biscuit and alcohol aromas. Crisp, yet full with tingly sweet alcohol from front to back. Slight lasting pepper finish.

Bottled and poured into a tumber. I’ve had this bottle sitting around in the bottom of my ice box for something like six months. I’m finally going to drink it. It pours copper-colored with a thin rocky head. It smells sweet like peaches and acidic with hops. the body is light but this beer is chock full of flavor. The flavors closely mimic the aroma and consist of peaches. The finish is slightly oily and the sweetness lingers.

(cleaning out my beer bottle collection as pictured in my profile and utilizing ratebeer.com) As I recall, a good strong Belgian style ale. Flavors were complex, spice, hops, and malt.

Draft at Trappeze. Have had bottled before and was good but on draft was excellent. Crisp taste with hops and spice. Very easy drinking.

draft. A very good brew. Like a combo of a Belgian pale ale and a tripel. Alcohol+malt+hoppy spicey= good.

pours a slightly hazy gold with small white head. smells rich and fruity. begins sweet and slightly fruity and then turns drier with some spice and bitterness. not bad at all, but something seems lacking

Pours much lighter than I expected with an almost non-existent head. The tiny head falls away to only a ring of micro and large bubbles around the edge. Three little islands of bubbles sit disinterestedly in the middle of the glass. The color is a beautiful sparklingly clear amber that almost glows in the light. The lack of head on a regular brew would make me rate lower, but the anticipation of this strong ale puts into my mind "there is no room for head in this brew".

Alas - there is not much to the aroma. I get a whiff of "clean" and a touch of "moist vegetation". I would like a bit more aroma.

The palate surprised me - I expected something thin from the look but was greeted with the bubbles expanding into a pillow like cushion in my mouth. Very pleasing - very soft.

The flavor is not as intense as I thought it would be. It is mellow in a interesting way. I get sweetness and a hint of pine nuts in the breath out.

Overall this beer didn’t talk to me as much as I would like it to (for the price/caliber of brewer/type of beer). It may be that I’m rating in a surrounding that’s different than my usual rating setup. I’m in a coffee shop eating some saiton buffalo wings with my wife (I’ve got a laptop; she a book). As I’ve been talking to my wife about my thoughts she brings up that what I’m looking for is exhausting to her; too much over stimulation. She enjoys this beer; so do I, but for the money and type of beer I don’t think I would purchase again. Go get a delirium tremens instead. I guess if you want something simpler in this category that doesn’t demand attention this is a pretty good beer. Maybe that’s the current hop-love stage that I’m in coming through. But tremens isn’t hoppy and it hits me like a dancing frog.

Pours golden yellow with off white head. Fruity aroma as well as yeast. Flavor is slightly sweet with alcohol definately present. Medium body with average cabonation. Finishes dry and leaves an aftertaste almost like a lager. Probably won’t have this again.