Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

Bottle. Batch from 2007. Pours with an orangish color and not much of a head. Strong aromas of alcohol and sweet fruit. Candylike flavors with some alcohol hotness. When it warms up it becomes almost too cloying. I am not as enamored with it as most people, I just find it too sweet

Batch 5 Bottle, Thanks to Ramenen had it for my 36th birthday: A real beast drink with care at 16% it is very well balanced, complex licorice, woody and oily tones.

Bomber (Batch 2). Pours a clear ruby copper color, transient patches of off-white head swirl and disappear. Sharp alcoholic aroma with raw sugarcane, allspice and dark fruits all attempting to get out. Again, a blast of alcohol on the taste, heat and pepper, the finish has a helping of hops soaked in cognac. Still some life on the palate. Once you consider that this is 18%, this brew has a good amount of character that comes out.

Nov. 2005 bottle, sampled Jan 2008 Jesus God, this was one of the best beers I have ever had. Aroma is sharp sherry and heaps of dark ruby fruits. Almost no head, deep molasses and amber color. Taste is a touch salty and very bright berries, like an Apis Jadwiga. Obviously I get some honey out of this beer too. This is like a beer, port, and mead all put together. I’ll call it Avery’s More Powerful than Mead, Beer, and Port All Put Together. Palate is still slightly fizzy and alcoholic with whispers of the belgian yeast spiciness still present. World Class and terribly underrated. AGE THIS --- re-rate Batch 3 Jesus, this is still amazing. Having this beer currently. Bright red fruit, acetone in finish aroma and flavor, but it WORKS! Finish is slightly cloying with dull hops. Sweet caramel malts, some hop bitterness and higher alcohols. This beer is nearly perfect. If I had to drink one beer for the rest of my life, this is it.

Pours a medium brown. Medium body. Smell is of smoked teriyaki beef jerky with a hint of mango. Complex in taste. Very sweet, and huge alcohol burn persists through its finish. I drank this in several small pours in a tiny tulip glass.

Pours dark with a huge head that takes forever to go away. Smell is malty with a good liqour smell that is impossible to ignore. Taste is too much alcohol for me. I’m just not a huge malt liquor flavor kind of guy. It is just too much alcohol not enough beer flavor. Sorry, just not for me.

Dark brown pour. Very heavy alcohol aroma and taste. Taste of molasses, plums, brown sugar. I really get no hops. Good for sitting around a fire sipping.

2005 bottle..Poured a murky brown color with really no head at all. Sweet alcohol aroma. A fruity style malt liquor with flavors of raisins, dates, cherries and a hint of molasses. Finishing with a lot of sugar and alcohol that does linger for a minute. Never had a strong belgian style like this one before.