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Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
7763.69/5.03.68/5.0Winter16.31%86.8Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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
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 bobaidan (358), Farmington, Connecticut, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/515/20
Dec 3, 2006  
Pours a beautiful mahogany color with a surprisingly big head. Aroma is sweet and fruity (berry). Flavor a very sweet with strong raisin and honey overtones. The alcohol makes its presence well known. This very much like liquid candy.


 Enjoyit (1706), Vadum, Denmark
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20
Dec 2, 2006  
Red brown/amber of color. Light off white head. lovely aroma of fruits and sweets, lovely combined. Nasty in my mouth, it is every coin worth! smooth, creamy, i love it!


 MullMan (1080), Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/517/20
Dec 1, 2006  
2005 bottle. mostly clear ruby amber color, but many micro flaoties of yeast throughout the body. light tan thickish foamy head, short and goes quickly. aroma is heavy sweet syrupy malt, a little ginny like juniper berries and a bit of vodka. flavor is very sweet syrupy malt, slightly vinuous but pretty high octane. heat kicks in like a brandy, and keeps the palate warm. sweetness is close to cloying but not too far gone. the syrupy malt is kind of like sweet vermouth, and the finish is clean but I can feel the heat all the way down the gullet! a little bit of the honey malt comes through, dark sugar too. some of the sweetness is like peaches soaked in 151 proof rum.


 Heathen (795), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Dec 1, 2006  
2006 bottle. Poured red-brown with a thin off-white head. It had a candy sweet aroma. I couldn’t quite say I smelt alcohol but when I smelled the beer, I could feel the alcohol rising up into my eyeballs. It was cloudy with light carbonation. Had a sticky mouthfeel with all candy sweetness and also maybe some brown sugar. There was a slight alcohol burn in the throat but not really in the mouth until it warms up a bit. The only thing I can rally think to compare it to would be a much sweeter Samichlaus, which is on of my favorites. I think I will get another bottle to age.


joeyp (30), Alabama, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/516/20
Nov 30, 2006  
batch 4 14.6% pours a hazy brown with an offwhite head. oh yeah there defenetely is a lot of alcohol in this one. but its not as bad as i thought it would be, very easy to drink. not quite sessionable.


 spector (906), Lancaster, Ohio, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 30, 2006  
Had the 15.7 version.Strong alcohol in the aroma.Pours dark with some hints of red.Medium tan head.Nice mix of flavors.Chocolate,sweet malts and a hint of raisins.Very full mouthfeel with a nice alcohol finish.Probably my favorite from the demon series.


luiss (89), Elmsford, New York, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/516/20
Nov 29, 2006  
"The Beast Smells"- Bottle 2006 14.6%. Pours a nice dark raisin purple black. Woooooww a quick reminder of a good brandy with a bourbon after taste. A sweet alcohol taste, cotton candy effect where it feels like its melting in your mouth. Every last drop goes into your mouth and it numbs it. Thick, some what wheaty, and full of raison, ginger, and licorice. Warm or chilled it’s good to me. I will be back to rate this again in 9 months. Hope the rumors are not true.


 IrishBoy (2704), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Nov 24, 2006  
Bottled in 2006 14.6% ABV; Nose of alcohol, caramel fruits, spices,, and malts; deep copper with a huge long-lasting light tan head; Body very thick and syrupy; flavor ofsweet maple syrup mixed with fruitiness, caramel, spices, and ALCOHOL which lasts to the finish.As it warms the alcohol gets far better covered and it becomes a lot more drinkable or did some of the massive alcohol load just EVAPORATE?



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