Avery Thirteen

tap at dba. Clear garnet/ruby tinted dark brown beer with a thin light brown head. Beautiful fruity aroma (grapes, plums, cherries) over lovely dark toasted malts. Prominent rummy aroma along with a touch of mint over a sweet maltiness. Flavour is nice, malt accented with strong toasted malts and plummy/pruny sweetness over brown sugar and dark rum. I liked the Oktoberfest and I like this, despite how much I dislike their Belgians... stick to Germany Avery, you do it well.

22 oz bomber. Deep dark black in color with a little tan head. Fruity malty aroma. Caramel fruity raisiny notes. Malty caralmel and fruity flavor. Thin bodied. Finish is malty. Drinkable.

Bomber. Almost black with a nice looking brown head that doesn’t last too long. Aroma is plum and black licorice. Taste is burnt caramel, apple and banana. This is a strange brew, as the body is a bit thin and the fruits are very fresh. I live Avery beers but only their American styles. I still wanna try this with a few year on it. Not that it’s an alcohol bome but when the fruits mature a bit.

Poured dark red with a slight tan head. Aroma is musty, sweet, and hot alcohol. As flavor warms, the maltiness really begins to take shape, when cold the alcohol is too prominent. The fruity esthers they speak of are nowhere near as center stage as a Schneider, taking place on the back end, obscured by the sweetness.

Pours a dark copper with a medium light brown head. Aroma is spicy with a hint of sourness. It’s complex with hints of banana and other typical wheat aromas. In the mouth it starts of slightly sweet, dominated by banana and the other wheat flavors. There’s a hint of sourness and then it finishes sweet. It’s thick and lightly carbonated.

Pours a deep ruby with a medium tan head. Aroma has a faint yeasty and malty sweetness. Flavor is sweet and caramely like a doppelbock but with a twinge of sour wheat character reminiscent of a weizenbock. Like the name suggests, it’s sort of a hybrid of the two styles, and it works well. Unique and enjoyable.

Dark brown with a two finger coffee colored head.
nice lacing. Aroma is very sweet. Caramel, prunes, burnt sugar, cooked bananas, alcohol.
Flavor is sweet, fruity and roasty with a bit of alcohol burn on the way down.
Started out too sweet, but as it warmed in the glass the sweetness diminished or I got acclimated to it. Even so I’d find it hard to drink more than one of these in a night.

Ah, I can’t kill this one, but Avery regularly lets me down, and they surely do so again with this brew. Pour was decent, nothing special, but it gave an ok initial head (with fairly weak retention) and yielded ok lacing. The body was dark brown to black, hard to get light through. The aroma was strong caramel over top of the usual weizenbock notes of bananas, roast, spicing. The flavor was way overdone on the caramel and included some bread and plastic aspects. Disappointingly hot on the alcohol and a little too astringent, needing some age for sure. But, at these caramel levels, age isn’t going to improve this much. Mouthfeel was heavy with moderate to light carbonation.