Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

pours a nice medium honey color with a nice head that disappears rather quickly. smells very nice, sweet, alcohol, a little fruit and sugar...the flavor is very sweet, with a follow of an alcohol burn. the flavors i picked out seemed to be raisins, sugar, maybe a little cherry, and of course the ever present alcohol. this may be one ill be back to re-rate when the other bottle has aged a bit.

Batch 3 (2005) Rather pleasant aroma of orange peel, brown sugar and yeast. This is a bit too sweet and cloying for my taste, but with huge flavours of all sorts ofsweet stuff - raisins, syrup and vanilla. Alchohol is quite dominating and I’m sure that everything will taste just like "the beast" for the rest of the evening. Very big body as well - probably wont be able to finish the bottle for a couple of hours. Not my favourite from Avery"

12oz. Bottle: Strong aroma. Smells like Robitussin. Also smells of fruit, berries, alcohol, and sour mix. Poured ruby in color with a big, foamy, tan head that lasted. Good lacing. Clear. Very Sparkling. Very complex flavor is lightly sweet but not bitter. Tastes of cherries, alcohol, toffee, malt, nuts, molasses, and sugar. Full body. Thick texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, raisin flavored finish. Overall, this really hides the alcohol content well. I did not think I would like this beer, but I did. Pleasant surprise.

Batch 4. Ough!!! this beer took me by total suprise. just too overbearingly sweet for me. a couple sips was enough.

Batch 4: The first thing I notice is a definate yest smell, then there is a more of a sweet brown sugar smell to it. It is a pleasent medium-dark brown color with small bubbles throughout. Medium head, which is slowly deminishing. As others have said, very sweet, almost too much so. The strong sweet taste sticks to your mouth for some time. It feels rather syrupy, almost like a slightly flat soda. Alcohol is slightly noticable, but nothing like the 14.6% would suggest. Altogether a good beer, but too much for one sitting. It would be good shared with a friend or two to cut down on the volume you drink.

Very, very sweet and syrupy. Almost sickening. Pours a dirty honey color. Very sweet and slimey, I don’t know if I can finish this without getting sick. I think this may be my first drain pour, I just can’t do this. Fruity with some metal and lots of alcohol and LOTS of solvent flavors. It’s making me want to throw up, I have to stop. Gross. To put it in technical terms, EFFING GROSS. Call me narrow-minded but this is just horrid. I guess I admire what they’re trying to do, but I can’t help but hate this beer.

Cloyingly sweet is the best description I can conjure up for this drink. It is similar to Raison D Extra without the nuances. Time to pour this out and have a beer.

Deep mahogany in colour, dissipating beige coloured head, average retention, some lacing. The aroma was of cookies, cake, dark fruits, cherries, toffee, alcohol and was quite rich. The flavour was of alcohol upfront, lots of christmas cake, creamy, toffee, dark fruits. Highly alcoholic mouthfeel, hugh body, high carbonation. Finishes all alcohol, burning, quite sweet. I liked the richness of this beer but the alcohol flavours coming out of this are intense. This gives over-the-top a whole new meaning. I don’t think that the alcohol will ever mellow in this beer.

650ml bottle obtained in a trade with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=10666 target=blank>snowtiger, thanks Scott.
Batch #1.