Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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

From bottle, batch 3. Pours a dark ruddy brown, with thin tan head. Vinous nose with alcohol. Figs, apple vinegar, syrupy, tobacco, intermingling with other fruits. Flavor is more of the same wonderful complexity, with an alcohol heat. Palate is smooth and lightly carbonated. A huge beer that should only improve with age.

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: What the ? This brew pours like liquid caramel, soupy and opaque brown. Gives off a decent head that reuces to a full creamy ring of lace. Aromas are strong and sweet w/ a defined herbal essence. Viscous and soupy full texture w/ mild carbonation. This stuff is so thick I could choke. Big fat caramel malts so decadent it could be describedas bacon fat. Flavors of molases, cherry, kiwi, cocoa, ripe peach nectar, leather, grapes, melon, the list goes on and on. The finish never stops giving as this brew is very generous. Theres a bit of peachpit and a slight tartness on the finish. Overall: this is a Barleywine, no if’s, and’s or but’s about it. It’s sweet as jellybeans and chews like gummy bears. Not much of a hop presence.

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!

Let me start by saying I like this beer. A sweet aroma of hops. A flavor of alcohol and light malt. A full bodied full palated beer with a strong after tast eo alcohol that I really liked. I think my favorite of the style. I’m almost certain that this review was posted wrong on the Beast from the Wood list. I cut and pasted to here and deleted the Wood posting. Sorry about that stevo

12 oz bottle. Does not state which batch, but it does say it was bottled in 2006. Belgian strong ale? More like a barley wine. Where do I begin with this one, awesome beer. Pours a cloudy brown with a big frothy head, huge lacing. Aroma of alcohol, sweet malt, and molasses. Flavor is similiar, but much more complex. The commercial description is dead on, flavors of Belgian candy sugar, raisins, dates, etc. I loved this beer. The ABV on the bottle was 14.6% and it was almost undetectable. Velvety mouthfeel. I am going to keep a few 2006 bottles cellared for a few more years.

2005 bottle. Aroma is of dark fruits, vanilla, yeast, and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet, but pretty complex with caramel, dark fruits, chocolate, molases, grapes, and alcohol all coming out. Pours dark brown with red hints, and a small tan head. Full bodied. Whoa, already feeling it after a half glass. Better than I was expecting, very good, and STRONG.

12 oz bottle, 2006 bottled. Cloud dark copper color with brown head. Sweat aroma of malt, brown suger and molasses. Taste of the smae as the aroma with warming alcohol taste WOW!!!