Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

2004-22oz bomber-pours a nice garnet red hue with mild carbonation. very little off white head around rim of snifter. Lots of ripe fruit on the aroma-green apples, belgian candy sugar, yeast esters. So much sweetness. WOW! what a huge flavor. Sticky and viscus palate. The aroma is mild compared to the flavor profile, which is very robust and slightly hot due to the high abv. This could use some aging, but its a definate treat. long smoke tobacco finish. good brew from Avery, but needs some time in the cellar.

12 oz bottle. Wow, what a beer. This thing was huge. Very think brown pour with smallish head. Aromas were wonderful of molassas, date, raisin, brown sugar. The flavor was very intense. A lot of dark fruit, and more molassas. Alcohol was big too. Mouthfeel was huge. Very thick and syrupy. Carbonataion was probally there, but the alcohol warming seemed to negete it. I think maybe in a few years this would settle down and be a very decent beer. For ow, it was too much.

Bottle at No5. Red with a beige head, fine lacings. Aroma heavy malty (/dark fruits, raisins, plum), light hoppy. Flavor heavy sweet, light bitter. Smooth and round, vinous. Full body, soft carbonated. Strong in alcohol.

Vintage 2008 – The Wine Shoppe (tasting) – Myrtle Beach, SC. Thanks for sharing, Chuck! Clear copper, off-white creamy head. Intense brandy cream and cognac infused dark fruit cake aromas ride deep undercurrents of Grand Marnier and hints of cherry almond. Candied pineapple and orange rye-like flavors give way to a closing soft finale of warming brown sugary booze. Full bodied and slick, soft carbonation, sweet fruity finish. If ever there was a perfect cigar beer….

A big beer in every sense of the word. Red with no visible carbonation. Nose dry and fruity, woody and hoppy. Flavor is quite sweet and a bit spicy, malts are there. Very well-masked, alcohol amazingly hidden considering strength. Dry at end with good hops. Nice mouthfeel as well.

Batch #5. Red in color with a decent head. Malt and carmel aromas with some prunelike aromas as well. Sweet very sweet malty flavor of candi sugar, raisons, molasses, and prunes. Very thick body. Had again this weekend and the beer had most of the above but was too overly sweet in the taste and not really that pleasing to me.

2004 bomber. Hazy, dirty copper in color with a sandpaper looking head that’s taken on a deep tan hue. Alcohol phenols inevitably jump out of the glass, joined by cherry skin, turning raisins and dates, and oak vats filled with children’s Tylenol. Flavor leads to contemplation, and then all attention is diverted to an enflamed esophagus. Oily syrup brigade. Amplified maraschinos pumped with nail polish remover. Feel that ABV ring in the now care-free imagination. Cayenne pepper and citric orange squeezes amplify the sting. Oily and overbearing on the palate and any thought of balance is a joke of a notion. Finish is a throat fuselage as absinth masked by a slight caramel trickle. Still, not as bad as I expected.

Poured a clear ruby color with a thick tan head. Big malt aroma. Taste is sweet with the malt up front with a cotton candy flavor. Packs a punch. Could be a little less sweet but overall, it’s very good.