Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

Clear amber colour with small tan head. Very sweet aroma with some maltiness. Also some caramel aroma. Flavor is sweet and malty with some dark fruit and molasses. Some hoppiness in the aftertaste and warming alcohol.

Bottle. Reddish/brown hue with large light brown head. Aroma and flavor very complex of hops, citrus, caramel and alcohol. Medium to full body with long finish and a bite of alcohol. Very good brew. 12/30/07 Bottle Batch 2 from Dilly Delli. Much better balanced beer with a strong sweet flavor with a good burn. This is a now a stand out brew.

Clear mahogany, with a lasting tan head - one of those beers that makes you wish that for greater effect you gave most other beers a 1 or a 2 for appearance. Aromas of fruit (dates, pineapple, orange), flowers, leather and port - closer to a British barleywine than anything Belgian I can think of. Very sweet, and thick like honey, with a warming alcohol. Beer for a cold winter!

Big thanks to Brock_Landers for this. Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat.....you WILL taste alcohol in this. You will also taste intense dark fruits, including figs, berries, slight spices, cherries, berries, hops, cognac, scotch, cabernet, and even smoked meat and cheese...very complex taste. Deep copper pour with a big white head. The aroma is of big dark fruits, hops, and slight rauchiness...very complex aroma. Dense, very firm palate with a super fruity, somewhat astringent finish. Very complex, but this is a bit harsh. This is not a beer for pansy asses. Rather, it is a truly beastly, badass beer. I’ve never, ever seen this on shelves, but if I do, I’ll hoard it like a miser hoards empty soda cans.

We have tamed the Beast! Red copper ale with a fruity sweet aroma with sour cherries. Sweet cherry notes in mouth with intense hops lingering in mouth. A goos alcohol burn, yet balanced with the sweet malt. A super strong barley wine. Strong and heavy bodied. Have another in one year, once its aged.Thanks to Maibockaddict.

Batch 5. Head is initially small, frothy, light brown, mostly diminishing. Body is medium to dark amber. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, cookie), lightly hoppy (resin, apricot), with a strong note of alcohol, notes of honey, clove, toffee, overripe banana, brown sugar, etc. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Full body, syrupy texture, lively/soft carbonation, moderately to heavily alcoholic. Instant hit of alcohol from the first sniff. Still pretty similar to previous batches, roughly speaking, but definitely boozier than it has been in a while. More syrupy texture too. It’s not without some intrigue in the nose, but it’s a sledgehammer for sure. Reminds me of batch 2, though not quite as out of hand.

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....

bottled. this had so much nasty, european canned strong lager sugar and metho character to it that it was hard to discern much else. i dunno, some raisins, honey, burnt toast, plenty of bitterness and amazing stickiness. big and dumb