Avery Thirteen

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

Bottled. Very dark brown coloured with a small head. Roasted and malty with notes of dark fruits and caramel. SLightly hoppy. Very round and nice. Just like me.

Bottle. Dark brown with a red tinge and fluffy darkened head. Dark, toasty aroma with fruits and toffee. Nice complex flavour - nutty caramel, toast, chewy sweetness. Quite tasty and rich.

Very dark beer with deep red glints when held up to the light. Creamy tan head that shrinks to a whispy film. Sour grain nose. Rich mouthfeel with wheat lightness. Tastes of sour berries, maple, vanilla, oak, molasses and noticable alcohol. There was an underlying sourness that faded as it warmed. I’ll have to try another bottle to see if that sourness was supposed to be there.

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.

(bottle - 22 oz) Ruby red color with a thin but creamy tan head. Aroma is very sweet with lots of raisins, caramel, toffee, and sweet malts. Flavor is very sweet and creamy with some sweetness, raisins, caramel, and a slightly bitter finish and aftertaste.

Woof. Full aroma, begins with an aroma of clove mingled in caramel, not much fruit, including banana, to speak of. Rather dark, with a surprsingly medium head. Sitting in the glass under normal illumination, it almost looks like a porter. Held to the light, you can tell its not so dark, but a deep garnet color. A bit too crystal clear however! Flavor up front is dominantly sweet, with a heavy melanoidiny munich malt palate, and then whoa - where’s the carbonation?! Hardly any, and instead there’s this massive sea of sticky sweet malt and only the slightly spicy note of weizen to provide any sort of contrast. A note of raisiny fruitiness comes to the fore at some point. I started this off somewhat cold, as cold as I’d drink a good doppelbock or weizen, but it didn’t seem to work. As I let it warm (I certainly wasn’t motivated to drain this very fast), it just got worse - the heavy malt sweetness became cloying, and a heavy alcohol burn became apparent. Any way you slice it, its an unbalanced, undercarbonated mess.

dark opaque brown with no head. peanut butter, banana, and dark malt aroma. spicey, light wheat beer joined with the dark strong boldness of a doppelbock. licorice, banana, prune, and chocolate in flavor. excellent example of a great style of beer.

Bottle@Oslo Øljunta Olympen gathering. A low beige head upon a barely translucent, dark brown colored body. Vinous aroma, soft malty with faint caramel and a whiff of dark bread and dried fruits. Mellow and rather bland malt body, soft and vinous fruitiness. Low carbonation level. Feels flat in the mouth. Mild malty finish. Could have been a really nice one, but this beer is obviously oxidized. Hope I’ll get another chance to taste it. Meanwhile, re-rate is pending.