Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

Extremely strong flavor of raisins, coffee. Unfortunately balanced by extremely strong cloying offtaste, so difficult to drink. Very expensive beer.

The beer smelled like syrup and alcohol. Taste just the same. Definetly a beer that will warm you up when you are cold.

Batch 4 I believe. The first big avery beer that has really clicked with me, other than the IPAs. Sweet licorice aroma. Long lasting thin head. High alcohol but very drinkable. Sweet, not cloying. Maple and licorice. Hints of molasses and raspberries.

Aroma: completely wonderful, sweet malts, figs, coconut, slightly burnt, citrusy, vaguely of liquorice, ginger, raisins, honey... somewhere beneath it smells like a wonderful bock w/ complex hops and a burnt sting.
Appearance: thick raisin-reddish brown, foggy w/ inertial, browntinted head that unfortunately doesn’t stay.
Flavour: wow, this is a sweet one, metallic, salty, some malty bitterness, powerful... very weird and longlasting flavour... almost acrid aftertaste. It’s hard to pick out the wheat but it’s in there when I slurp a little.
Palate: cery smooth & slimy, warming, strong even for 14.9. So round and aggressive at once.
I like it more and more.

The aroma smelled like raisins, mollasses, and alcohol. The flavor was very sweet. Too sweet for me. Tasted exactly the way it smelled. Raisins, mollasses, and then alcohol. This beer packs a punch.

12oz bottle batch#4 pours a deep red-purple color with almost no head to speak of. This got a lot of blood in my alcohol system fast. The Beast name fits this beer well. To sweet for my taste, but good damn that beer packs a punch.

Bottle 2006. One taste and you know why they called it "beast". Lots of mollasses and raisin in the nose. Nice deep reddish color. A huge burst of flavor in the mouth. A great winter warmer.

Bottled 2006: the beast looks good. Redbrown color, small but steady head. Vinous raisinny aroma. Brandy. Extremely sweet but also vinous flavor. Sugary and alcoholic. Porto flavor. Thick mouthfeel. Has complexity but remains too sweet IMO.