Avery Thirteen

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Boulder, Colorado USA

Pours a brownish red with a small tan head. The aroma is malty with whiffs of banana and alcohol. The flavor has primarily a roasted quality with some hints at banana and dark fruit.

"If it’s got a goat, it’s gotta be good."

Well-bedecked bottle pours a deep ruby/mahogany with a short, tan head that settles quickly into a thin film and halo. Aroma finds a luscious blend of malts and yeasts sharpened with a whipcrack of alcohol. Caramel, apple, banana, whisky, maple, sweet cherries, Juicy Fruit gum.... damn, there’s alot going on! A smooth, wheaty palate is fluffed up by a healthy hit of carbonation as a precursor to carressing the throat as a warm, silky syrup (all the while leaving a dry astringence in the mouth!) Yeasts dominate the flavor with Weisse-like fruitiness. Sweetness from the malts is tempered by soft hop-bitterness and alcohol (again) which now seems a little too forward. Sadly, the linger hangs with a sour fruitiness and a hint of pungency, rather like a children’s chewable vitamin. Despite its few downfalls, this was six dollars well-spent and I’ll be heading back out to Frankfort because this goat should age quite nicely.

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Lots of alcohol and dried fruit on the nose of this dark brown beer. Noticeable alcohol on top of the wheaty and rye like flavour. Bready with some nice spices and herbs to this chewy goat. Decent beer but just not my thing.

Wheaty, slightly fruity, mint, rye aroma. The weakest part of the beer. Enormously quaffable, especially for 9.5%, with a strong wheat hull flavor, rich chocolate mousse, herbs, mint. Chewy and rich, vastly enjoyable.

Deep dark black in color with a little tan head. Fruity malty aroma. Caramel fruity raisiny notes. Malty caralmel and fruity flavor. Thin bodied. It would be better without the alcohol aftertaste. Thanks for the trade JB.

Nice dark cherry mahogany color, cream colored small bubbled head, scent is alcohol, malt and fruit similar to a belgian almost, strong flavor with hints of plum, alcohol and chocolate. You know you are drinking a big beer.

Bottle. Small tan fizzy head that was mostly lasting along with a decent amount of lacing, transparent, visible carbonation, and a dark ruby hue. Nose was mildly malty, sweet, fruity and spicy. Flavor was sweet, toffee, cocoa, bready, and spicy. Tingly palate. Medium body.

Interesting stuff. Hazy dark reddish. Thin head with some lacing. Sour taste in palate, cherries and a woody taste also in palate. later in the mouthfeel is a strong full bodied chocolatey taste. Aroma is of dark fruit.