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Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale 3.68 778

Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
7783.69/5.03.68/5.0Winter16.31%87Trappist 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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 FROTHINGSLOSH (2025), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/517/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a ruby chestnut color with a large tan head. The aroma was sweet, fruity, caramel and molasses. The flavor was sweet caramel, ripe fruits - cherry mostly, molasses and port wine. Very complex. Wonderfully thick and sweet. The alcohol did show through a noticeable amount. I liked this one. My wife thought it was a total beergasm and wanted to give it a perfect rating.


 Pailhead (2597), Allen Park, Michigan, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Nov 20, 2004  
Bottle: Strong butter toffee and caramel aroma. Nice addition of banana bread to the nose. Pours a transparent reddish-brown with an off-white head with a yellow tint. Fair retention. Very sweet and malty. Has a little extra sweet barley wine flavor to it. Raisin, caramel, toffee, and banana bread. Light bitterness in the finish. Kind of a sweet, sticky, banana bread aftertaste. Alcohol is noticeable in the finish, but not overbearing. Has a warming effect. A little sticy and syruppy. Really like this one.


 Quetzalcoatl (153), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/518/20
Jul 10, 2004  
22 poured into snifter. This is a good looking beer: beautiful deep red with a thin tan head. The nose is full o’ malt, fruit and alcohol. Taste is a kick in the mouth. Rich dark fruits, molasses is very present as well. This hangs around on the tongue for a while too, after a few sips my mouth feels coated. Very enjoyable if you like big rich heavy brews. This would be perfect on a cold winter night, too bad it’s July.


 csbosox (1082), Prairie Village, Kansas, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/518/20
Sep 21, 2007  
Old rating Drank in March ’06? 2005 bottle. Maroon color. Plummy, alcohol aroma, also some turbinado sugar, vanilla, and raisins. Taste is caramel, apple cider, turbinado sugar, and cinnamon. Mouthfeel is thick and chewy. I think this is a rather enjoyable beer, though one I would only want to have at the end of the night.


 LilKem (1210), Marietta, Ohio, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/517/20
Jun 6, 2006  
bottle in IL. the aroma kicks ass. its butterscotch, and pears and carmel and wheat, malt, and light fruitiness. Flavors are strawberry, butterscotch, wheat, chocolate, carmel, honey, raisins, and boysenberry. lol. very yummers. very creamy mouthfeel. this is just a very very good beer. i love it.


 drpimento (832), La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/518/20
Mar 20, 2007  
BIG beer. This is from a 2005 bottle at the Bodega Brew Pub, downtown La Crosse, Wis. USA. Not much in the head/lace department. But the aroma is jam packed full of dark ripe fruit: blackberry, plum, fig, dates, raisins; flavors are all a that but accented. Pleasant clean finish. Color is deep reddish brown slight head, minimal lace.


 radagast83 (1310), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Sep 10, 2007  
Batch 4 (2006). I was a little scared by this beer at first. I wasn’t sure what to expect with it being 14.6%. Surprisingly even with the alcohol presence, this beer was extremely smooth and had a wonderful sweet flavor to it as it warmed.


 wheninhell (486), louisville, Kentucky, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Feb 3, 2006  
pours like sirup. dark amber with a small white head. aroma of sweet roasted malt dried fruit vanilla and alcohol. this is a very very sweet beer. huge flavor of roasted malt honey vanilla cinnamon and clove.very thick on the palate with appropriate carbonation and a long warm alcohol finish. the best avery i have had.



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