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Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale 3.68 782

Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
7823.69/5.03.68/5.0Winter16.31%87.2Trappist 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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 hotstuff (3180), Indiana, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/105/518/20
May 10, 2004  
What a beer that thedm picked out for my #1000! Oh my God! Wow! A favorite beer style of mine along with a high ABV to boot! Oh my God! Wow! Bottled in 2004. 22oz bottle. Poured a small sized tan head with fine-small sized bubbles that mostly dissipated. The body was carbonated, transparent and a ruby hue. Beautiful! The aroma was just as beautiful...malty, caramel, sweet, spicy notes, raisins, and alcohol. The flavor was extremely to my liking since I so much enjoy high ABV beers. It was sweet tasting, alcohol, and cherries. The mouthfeel was tingly and it had an alcohol burn in the back of the throat. The lacing was sparse. Definitely a sipping beer. Hoping to get another bottle of this to age. This is definitely a kick-ass beer!! Party on!!


 stouby (1955), Holbaek, Denmark
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
May 3, 2007  
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.


odddodd (2), Superior, Colorado, USA
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4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/519/20
Dec 1, 2004  
It truely is a beast. The alcohol is apparent at first but masked by a sweet prune like flavor. This is a beer I I would age. It calms down after a year or more in a cellar. Definitely buy to collect this bad boy!


 SudsMcDuff (1706), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/59/104/518/20
Feb 3, 2007  
drank w/ coop...92%....pours with a fairly healthy head...leaves a covered foam pool...lots of sugary fruit aroma’s...i am in love....SO sweet!...tons of fruit, rum, candy sugar and other strange alien raisin flavours...a great BIG beer..one bottle per person is too much...SHARE this brew!!!...sweet complexity!!!..the coop liked it!


 MPA (512), Nørrebro(formerly Aalborg), Denmark
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
Feb 22, 2007  
Bottle, batch 4. I absolutely love this beer! Beautiful to look at, wonderful to smell and so nice going down in both flavour and palate. Full of raisins, figs and sweetness combined with just the right amount of alcohol. Has so many elements of a good port and reminds me of the best barley wines I’ve tried (which I’d say it is).


 Enjoyit (1746), 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!


HDane (81), Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/59/104/518/20
Jun 22, 2006    Updated: Jun 27, 2006
From bottle, batch 3. Nose is exquisite - overall sweetness, apples, alcohol. Flavor is outstanding, much of the nose appears, as well as some caramel, and brown sugar. Feels very smooth on the palate - the alcohol does rear it’s head a bit, but not as much as you’d expect for a 14.9% beer. A superb addition to the Demons of Ale series from Avery.


 mgermani (865), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/59/104/519/20
Feb 22, 2009  
Pours a lovely rich ruby with a thin layer of foam and minimal lacing. Aroma is SUBLIME! Oh my good glory: at first overwhelmingly sweet, but on closer inspection pickled ginger comes through strong and clear... The taste delivers on every promise of the aroma: strong and sweet with so many layers of spice one doesn’t even know where to begin... speculoo (brown sugar, cinnamon) raisin, lots of raisin in the finish, which lingers a loooong, loooong time. A surprisingly crisp body for such a dense-flavoured beer, decent carb. My god I love this beer and I fear it shall end me.



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