Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

22 oz. Thanks to Styles. Poured a reddish brown color with a silk like on the glass. The aroma of mustard and lemon and alot of bittering hops is very present. Taste like a smoked briskit with some gatlic butter sauce. Good beer.

2006, Dark caramel brown in color with big bubbly head. Strong warming alcoholic flavor. Almost too much flavor of alcohol, with a little sweetness. Drinkable but hard to finish. Something I’d rather take shots of than sip on.

Bottle from trade with BeerandBlues2. Thanks Brad! Pours a copper color with a small beige head. Aroma is wonderful of spice, dates, raisins and hops. Taste is sticky sweet with a real alcohol kick. The flavor is of brown sugar, yeast, and dates. This is a beer all to it’s own but with a taste resembling the DFH Raison D Extra. Nice!

12oz bottle. 2005 batch 3 (1+years old). pours a hazy amber with small head. aroma is super sweet, beyond belief. sugar, maple syrup, and alcohol some soy sauce. taste is pretty plain. i’d love to think this was complex. very sugary and alcoholy, some mild dark fruits and oxidation. all the alcohol burns going down. more honey and this could be a decent mead, but as is a bad beer. perhaps i should re-rate fresh.

12 big American ounces (batch 4?) bottle shared with some Quebecois and Ontrarians at the Montreal YeHa 2006 tasting, from a McAuslan glass. Dark mahogany, translucent with a small lasting head....strongly alcoholic, maple-sugary sweet, thick nose, lightly woody and drier as it warms, faint herbal notes....on the tongue, extremely sweet, syrupy, thick with maple sugar and molasses, utterly unbalanced and crude....higher carbonation might help, but it’s soft and cloying.....like drinking toothpaste made with sugar, this is. I hope the earlier batches I have sitting around aren’t this hard to drink....

Pours a orange amber color with a white head. Aroma is of sweet malts, molasses, and alcohol. Flavor is sweet malts, dried fruit and loads of alcohol. Could not finish a whole 12 oz bottle way too much alcohol.

Bottle, 2005. Heavy brown color with a yellowish-beige head, nice cascade of bubbles after the pour. Hugely alcoholic aroma - caramel malts, toast, almonds, oak. vanilla... only the strongest aromas make it through that screen of alcohol. Flavor isn’t terrible, but way, way to sweet. The alcohol is hidden well in the flavor, but not in the way it makes my mouth and throat feel. Raisins, caramel, toffee, and vanilla dominate the flavor and coat the inside of the mouth. Very tame bitter finish laced with the burning from the alcohol. Syrupy thick in the mouth. There are some interesting flavors in this beer, but it’s totally unbalanced. Too sweet and too outwardly alcoholic. It’s worth a try, but Avery has much, much better things to offer.

Almost clear dark copper body, very small off-white head. Grossly over-alcoholised beer with nowhere for the alcohol to hide. Toothpaste aroma, burning alcohol sensation the likes of which I expect from a whiskey, very sweet, very aggressive. I tried to focus and find some flavours but I just couldn’t (may have something to do with the state I was in though). It’s a beast indeed, primitive, unsophisticated, violent, aggressive and the same will be said about you if you drink 6 of those.