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Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
95
overall
Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Boulder, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
7723.69/5.03.68/5.0Winter16.31%86.8Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
The Beast is a seducer - accomodating, complicated, powerful, dark and created to last the ages. Beyond this, it’s futile to attempt to describe Him. He will unveil Himself differently to each of His followers. The mark is in His constitution. Brewed with two-row malted barley, honey malt, and imported Belgian specialty grains (aromatic, pale wheat, roasted wheat, and Special B), hops (Magnum, Galena, Saaz, Hallertau, Tettnang, and Hersbrucker), brewing sugars (raisins, dates, blackstrap molasses, alfalfa honey, turbinado, and dark Belgian candy sugar), water, Belgian yeast and another hellion of a yeast strain.OG: 1.138
Batch 1 (2004): 15.7% ABV
Batch 2 (2004): 18.1% ABV
Batch 3 (2005): 14.9% ABV
Batch 4 (2006): 14.6% ABV
Batch 5 (2007): 16.42% ABV
Batch 6 (2008): 16.31% ABV
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 chicagodri (1021), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
May 24, 2008  
This just happened to be the next beer in line in my fridge...probably not the best one to have to end the night. Pours a cloudy brown. Amazing aroma of a dark sour fruits. Incredibly sweet and almost like a syrup. Just too sweet though, like drinking sugar.


deadington (9), USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale does not count
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/518/20
May 20, 2008  
tastes great! like drinking a glass of brown sugar..........................................................................................


 Skeegle (476), Maryland, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/58/105/517/20
May 16, 2008    Updated: Jan 28, 2009
I can see why this is such a love it-hate it beer. It really does smell like a creamy sugary cough syrup and the body is incredibly heavy. I still think this beer is great though. My bottle was aged three years and the flavors are beautiful, absolutely fantastic. Every dark fruit you could ever imagine is in this beer. Seriously every single one. Think about the smell when cherries go rotten in your fridge but they still smell very sweet and a little rotten, that is exactly, verbatim, what this beer tastes like. If you can find it, it’s well worth $5, just because it will take you an hour to drink.


 mjs (1446), Helsinki, Finland
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/514/20
May 16, 2008  
(2007 vintage, Bottle at Pikkulintu on 2008-05-15) Amber colour. White medium-sized head. Lots of malts in nose. Alcohol in full-bodied palate. Malts, hops, liquorice and even salty liquorice in taste. Alchol even warms a bit. Some more hops begin to taste when beer is warmer.


 guyinchicago (516), marengo, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
May 11, 2008  
poured red with big head,smelled of fruit and and alcohol very sweet and warm reminded me of a tripple and a port glad i tried it


 Nephilium (541), Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/512/20
May 7, 2008  
Faint aroma of biscuits and dark fruit. Pours a reddish-amber with a big fluffy white head. Starts off with a cloying sweetness, no detectable alcohol in the flavor however. Syrupy mouthfeel, with a long sweet finish. Not a horrible beer, but far too sweet for my tastes.


rizk (36), central florida, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
May 7, 2008  
that’s not even funny dude. over powering alcohol with a flat fruity mouthful. if getting piss ass drunk is your thing this is your beer. don’t think i can stomach too much of this brew


 Madsnp (610), Odense C, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
May 3, 2008  
Bottle. Darkbrown with a thin lightbrown and long lasting head. Aroma is very sweet with notes of dark fruit and honey. This beer is evil..



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