Avery The Reverend

On tap at the brewery on 7/17/09. Officially my 300th rating! Pours a nice dark orange, beautiful head. A bit of sweaty funk to go with the rich caramel and cloves. Flavor didn’t blow me away, but it was well balanced and the alcohol is hidden extremely well.

Strong smell of maltose and barley with hints of yeast and clove. Flavor is rich in caramel, molasses, and malt with a small hint of dark fruit. A slightly alcoholic finish ending with a sweet up-taste. A lot of candied sugar and dark cherries with an underlying spiciness. If candy and imbibing is sinful, this is as sinful as the eponymous city. Perhaps a bad example of the style, but still a good beer.

Bomber into an abbey glass. Pours murky brown mixed with blood orange with a small white head that settles into a small layer and ring quickly. The aroma reminds more of a Belgian brown than a quad, malty and rich. The flavor is a bit on the light side, oddly enough, and not quite complex enough. There is some ester, a fair amount of malt, and a dash of dust. High carbonation and a big mouthfeel.

Bottle. Pours a nice dark amber color with a frothy, off-white head. Aromas of bananas, malts, cherry, and a hint of orange. Texture is lively to start, then quickly goes smooth with a fantastically oily mouthfeel. Flavors of currants, bananas, and actually a nice mellow malty taste. I didn’t have high expectations for this beer but it exceeded expectations.

bottle from the fw flying saucer i believe. amber pour with a cream head. nose is candy and fruit. nice thickness with a heavy fruit flavor that finishes a little spicy.

(22oz bomber) Pours a very clear amber. The nose is spicy and fruity. The taste has a low amount of hops, but this beer is way too sweet with no fruit profile. The caramel is cloying and the alcohol is hot on the finish. This doesn’t taste much like an ABT or really much like beer in my opinion. Not a good example of the style.

Pour a orange-amber color with a tan head. aroma is of sweet malts, plums, clove, yeast, and spices. flavor is of dark fruit, sweet malt, candied sugar, carmel, molasses, spices, and a some alchool. has a full body and medium carbonation. cosidering the fullness and high alchool, it is acutlly pretty drinkable. overall, a pretty good but not top tier Abt.

Bomber. Pours clear orangish amber with white head. Aroma dark fruits, yeast, malt, and spices. Flavor is like its aroma is lots dark fruits, caramel, yeast and good amount of spices. There is definitly some booze in the finish. Not really digging this.