Avery Thirteen

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

Bottle. Poured hazy brown color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted caramel malty aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium blanced flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration.

From the bottle. Pours a very dark, cherry color, with a very quickly diminishing light-beige head. It has the classic dopplebock taste, but I think this one is a bit wheatier than other’s I’ve tried (which is to my liking). On the 1st sip, the aftertaste is very alcoholic, but once your palate acclimates, it’s very much more thick, but smooth. I’d say it’s definitely not as sickly-sweet as most other dopplebocks.

Dark brown with a small head, almost no lacing. Aroma is banana, roats, yeast, chocolate, caramel, darker fruits. Flavor is the same but overall feels way off balance.. the flavors are all over the place and the mouthfeel was a mess. Light alcohol in the finish. Not my favorite from them.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours brown with a large tan head. Aroma of bananas and alcohol. Flavor is bananas and caramel. The alcohol goes down undetected. Great beer.

From a capped 22 oz. gold foil wrapped neck brown bomber bottle with a blurb along the right side of label that I actually found to be an pretty accurate description of this dopplebock, the year bottled, 2006, and other info on lower center of label. Poured a solid ruby hued brown with a foamy off-white/beige head that settled into a thin lacing, minimal amount of sticking. Aromas of fruity and spicy esters from the yeast, as stated on the label, toffee and bready, a caramelized sugary and brief whiffs of alcohol. Nice moderate doppelbock carbonation and a crisp, malty textured, smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Delicious tasting, dark fruits, plums and ripe raisins with a bit rum-like spice, a light chocolate toffee, caramelized sugar malty, the alcohol has a little spicy heat and provides a nice warmth in the palate, a sweet breadiness emerges towards the end and a subtle fruity and caramelized malty finish, good dopplebock drinkability, dangerously quaffable. For Avery, I was surprised how much this was a straight forward attempt at a dopplebock, very little of the Avery twist, but still, another quality big beer from this Colorado brewer.

Bottle. Deep ruddy brown in color and mostly clear. SMallish beige head persists for a good amount of time and leaves modest lacing behind. Aroma is pleasant, blending chocolate and wheaty esters nicely. Clove and ripe bananna seem to have a slight edge. A slight amount of alcohol is detectible in aroma. Medium bodied with a pleasant, medium carbonation level. Bits of chocolate, light caramel and clove in flavor. Slight alcohol burn. Nicely done.

Thanks to SecretSanta Degarth for sending this my way. Nice black body with a light tan head. Aroma is similar to Belgian beers, fruits such as fig, cherry along with a nice yeasty accent. Taste is very nice, similar to a Abt/Quad in my opinion. Very complex fruit notes, some extremely light wheat. Smooth yet slightly spice ending. Overall a very nice beer.

Clear brown body with a thin off-white head. Sweet caramel aroma, hints of fruit. Sweet fruity flavor, some light caramel in the end.