Avery Thirteen

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

750ml bottle. Pours to a murky, deep ruby to red color, with a thick, creamy, head, and a moderate to lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is pleasing, with good aromas of caramel, toffee, and fruity estery aromas. The palate is firm, with good sweet malt, toffee, nuts, and estery fruit flavor. This beer finishes with good malt and fruit flavor up front, then ends with some peppery alchol, and a vinous note that lingers. A very tasty, delicious beer, but a bit lacking as a weizenbock. It lacks the signature aromas and flavors of a beer brewed with the Weihenstaphaner yeast strain. Avery states they use it, but it is lost in this beer. Again tasty enough beer, but not as authentic as I would have liked.

750ml bottle via Arctic Solutions. Pours a dark Marhoganey brown/almost black with a chalky beige head. Love the aroma with notes of Vanilla, Toffee, caramel, molasses and plums. And i can taste all of those in the first drink. Full bodied moutfeel, chewy finish. Lots of roasted chocolate malts and Licorice in the bittersweet aftertaste. Alcohol is there in the end as well, but not overwhelming. AWESOME.***************11/17/06 rerate-original score was 9/4/10/5/18...I am not nearly as impressed almost 3 months later. Maybe i am picker nowalmost 300 beers later?***********22 oz bottle via DocLock (thanks!). Pours a dark reDDish brown with a average beige head. Nose is of vanilla, toffee, plus, cherries. Taste is molassess, toffee, raisins, berries. Very sweet at first but with chalkyfinish. Reminds me a bit of a stronger version of Boss Kozlak but sweeter....

Hazy dark reddish brown. Creamy light tan head. Heavy malt aroma. Chewy malt texture. Thick and thirst quenching. Extremely impressive. Variety of this style is intimidating due to this beer style.

Clear garnet with an extremely thin, tan head. The aroma is sweet and fruity, with plums, raisins, chocolate, caramel, banana bread, toasted grains, clove, licorice, maple syrup and some fairly mild bubblegum and tropical fruit esters. The body is full and round with some prickly carbonation and chewy depth. The flavor is mostly sweet, a little spicy and contains a bit of bitterness near the end. The alcohol really dries out the beer and leaves the tongue parched at the finish. For my tastes, an average example of the style. Too bad, I was looking forward to this...

Big f’in hiss as the cap comes off, pouring a dismal, translucent (goddamn filtered weizenbocks) mahogany color with a tan spiderweb head. Chocolate port and sherry team with cherry loumbourd, green cloves, and a blend of concord grapes and rock candy crusted on brown sugared bran. Mild vanilla aromatics are overcome by portly, spiced phenols that dovetail into peanut brittle. Sulfurous ash on tin complacently fades into a dirty twig flavor. Medium cocoa dust is licked off of wire-brush scrubbed cookie sheets. Plum butter gum and cherry spruce pipe tobacco surface intermittently. Spicy pepper and cloves countermand allspice while exuding its propensity to achieve a stretched chocolate malt malfunction. Though the box shows they’re two years expired, the damn cocoa brownies were baked anyways. Adhesive, double stick tape defines the tongue stop, with brown sugar baked prunes meandering at the outset, along with generic, cocoa-sweetened, stale bran and an over-abundance of cloves. Burnt chocolate wheat and too much bitterness down the stretch bring about a finish that couldn’t have come soon enough. Thirteen fucking years. Thanks for the bomber, tpkenned!

Pours with a two finger cream head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Deep mahogany color. Good carbonation and heavy bodied. Fruity, sour nose. Starts sweet, molasses, smooth, complex flavor, some sourness but finish is almost sweet and clean. High ABV is not noticeable. $7.99 for a 22oz bottle from Hi-Time Cellars Costa Mesa, Ca.

I understand the mixed reviews for this beer. It looks like a standard bock, black, and lightly carbonated. The hgh ABV is not in the aroma, but there is caramel and some smoke. Flavor is sweet with fruit and sugar; raisins, sweet cherry, fermenting apples. The alcohol is also in the flavor as well, but it is not unpleasant. The wheat presence is clear, and it puts a softer edge on what would otherwise be a poweful doppelbock.

A nice bock to be sure. The Thirteen pours a dark garnet color with a brown head that has decent retention. The aroma is very malty, brown sugar, and some alcohol. The flavors follow exaclty--caramel malt up front with a definite tinge of brown sugar. The alcohol feel in this one suprised me since it is only at 9.5--but nonetheless there is definitely some burn when you drink this one down.