Avery Salvation

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

Bottle with Butters and sixfootsix. Pours an off-white lacing head with a golden body that has a hint of amber to it. Smells of yeast and sweet fruit. Flavor is yeast, bread, and apricot. Finish is sweet and somewhat long. Overall a tasty brew.

Bottle. Light fruity aromas of peach orange, clove with grain and flowers mixed in. It has a smallish white head which just about diminished each time the glass sat. It’s color is an almost clear, gold hue. Taste is refreshing in that it almost has an "ade" quality to it. Acidic and salty to start, and acidy and bitter in the finish. Light to medium on the palate, dry/watery in texture and lively carbonated.

From the few dozen people i spoke to at the Strong Ale Festival this was quite the talk of the town. This Belgian Golden Strong Ale smacked more of a double IPA than anything, save maybe for its color. The aroma was blisteringly yeasty, extremely hoppy, and had some hints of fruity undertones. The Salvation pouured a nice dark yellow, light amber with a thick thick head, but was more foamy than creamy. The taste was definitely fruity, banana-like, with definite citrus and some MEGA spiceyness in there. The palate was dry as hell by the second sip and could hardly handle the attack of the yeast and spice! Another good one from Avery, but bring on the dark’s...im not feeling loving the spiceyness here.

candle flame golden, the head is a berber carpet of natural toned fibers made frothy. taste and aromas are like bookends of passionate accord: barenjager honey- bitters and hearts of bristle-cone boughs with arteries of alcohol, filaments of crystaline caramel sugars, all things woody, sappy, resinous--where sweetness and bitterness are like darkness and light: there are no "spices" in this beer, it is not a "spicy" beer. it’s orange and peach schnapp’s sweetness and gentle goldings bitterness create a poetic palette balance without any masking or apologetic additivies: it’s smooth, strong, sensual, and a culinary salvation from the quotidian muck of mundanity.

22oz. Bottle: Sweet aroma is very complex. Notes of fruit, blueberry, bubblegum, peach, yeast, and nutmeg. Poured golden in color with a big, creamy, off-white/light yellow head that lasted throughout. Very good lacing. Clear and lightly sparkling. Flavor is heavily sweet and lightly sour but not bitter. Tastes heavily of nutmeg and cinnamon. Also hints of coriander and tart cherry. Medium to full body. Flat to soft carbonation. Finish is long and tart/sour. Finish almost makes you pucker your lips. Overall, interesting. I liked it better than I thought I might

After smelling this one I thought it was gonna be a knockout, but man was I wrong. Has very pleasant Belgian style aroma with some dried apples and apricots. The flavor is a different story altogether though with tons of unfermented sugars making it a sweet cloying mess. Harsh alcohol is present in both smell and flavor. Avery seems to have a problem with lazy yeasts because this isnt’t the first of their beers to have an overly sweet flavor.

Bottle. Poured a slightly hazy golden color with a nice, fluffy white head that left decent lacing. Sweet citrus and a light hoppiness on the nose. Nice semi-sweet, semi-sour entry leads into a nice hoppy finish. Some yestiness in the finish also. Pretty easy to drink for 9%, I would like to try it fresh, because it would probably be much better. Overall, solid, and better than I expected.

Bottle. Had a medium golden pour. Sweet malty aroma with a light hop character. More bitterness was noticeable in the flavor which threw me off a little. Had light pepper, fruit, and a medium alcohol bite in the finish. Not bad but confusing.