Avery Salvation

Aroma and taste are dominated by yeast and a bit of an alcohol burn. Beer is light amber hue with a slight head. More balanced than some of Avery’s high abv beers.

Bottle at The Avery Experience. Pours gold with a small frothy white head. Banana yeast and wheat with grain malts and fruit hop, some apricot notes. Sweet caramel malt and banana yeast with a cinnamon and nutmeg spice and fruit hop finish. Medium bodied and fizzy.

Dark orange color with a thin head. Aroma of bread. Dry and bitter malt taste with a slight orange finish. None of the bread or spice I would of have expected and liked. Not as ’salvating’ as I wish.

Pours out a copper tinged amber color with little to no head. The aroma is sweet and fruity. Flavor was not anything to write home about, but stil was not bad. Notes of apples, yeast and some sweet alcohol on the finish.

Head dissipates quickly. Very hoppy taste. Golden honey color. Honey ,hoppy caramel taste that has a bitter tail.

There’s a joke in here about finding salvation in a bottle, but I’ll leave that to the professionals.

An amber/orange colored brew under an average and fading, off-white head. Good Belgian character in the aromas, which ran the gamut of caramel maltiness, grapefruit hopiness and light, doughy yeastiness... along with honey and alcohol. Flavor was a bit wanting, however, starting with heavy sugars proceding to some middle malts and ending with some strong alcohol that quickly canceled out all the flavor. After a promising start, it ended rather "blah".

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Pours hazy brass with thin white rocky head. As I drank a nice lace followed the liquid down the glass. Some fruity esters led the aroma parade with some peach/apricot/nectarine/plum complex, with yeast, alcohol, grass, earth and peat. Tastes included a nice maltiness and an earthy, sweet fruity, spicy notes with notes of nutmeg and mace. The Styrian Golding hops lent a nice herbal character with low acidity. The flavor was quite complex and would take several tastings to completely unravel. Unfortunately, over a pint of 9% ABV tends to cloud the judgement but, on the other hand, a simple pronouncement of "damn good" suffices. Who cares why it’s good? I digress. Mouthfeel is creamy/silky. Good American stab at a Belgian mainstay.

Pours a dark cloudy golden color with a thin foamy white head. Aromas of fruits and a ting of bitter hops. The flavor at first is a kick in the mouth of hoppy bitterness that slowly fades into a sweet citrus. Very smooth and easy to drink, a great Belgian Strong.