Avery Thirteen

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

Bottle from Crown Liquors 15 in Fishers, IN. Dark brown pour with small beige head. Slightly metallic and malty aroma. Velvety mouth-feel with loads of roast, salt, malt, caramel , and banana. Slight hints of oxidation.

Bomber obtained from the Beer Swap 2.0. Clear dark brown with a thin beige head. Toasty nuts and wheat in the nose, a slightly burnt malt aroma. Malty caramel flavors and only a touch of banana to hint at the wheat. Seems closer to a doppelbock. Whatever. Nice.

"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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Honey, raison, heavy caramel, butterscotch, milk chocolate. Body is brown and black with a thin head. Taste is raison, caramel, alcohol, bittersweet chocolate, wheat, yeast, nutmeg.

This reddish-brown ale poured with a modest tan head, eliciting a brown bread aroma. The flavor is surprising and unique - toffee and caramel with a licorice finish and a lingering alcohol burn. This is not like any other doppelbock I have had.

A beautiful pour, clear dark garnet body topped by a dense creamy tan head. Tha aroma is sweet and esthery banana and raisins. They suceeded it seems in welding a wheat aroma with a dopplebock. The flavor is marred by a huge wallop of alcohol. Some sweetness backs this up but things do not come together very well unforunately. The body is dry and very prockly with the alcohol playing a prominent role in things. In the end it is mildly amusing but not special in any way.

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.

Bottle sampled with beerded_one. Pours deep brown with a large tan head. Aroma of bananas, citrus, caramel, sweet malts, and alcohol. Flavor is smooth, sweet, bananas, citrus, carbonated, caramel, beautiful weizen, awesome brew.