Avery Thirteen

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

Dark brown with nice head and good ruby highlights. Smell is nice. Taste has wheat characteristics some toffee flavors. The maltiness sweetness from the bock also really shine through.

On-tap at the Happy Gnome: Classified as a "Weizen Doppelbock" and looking like so...Thickly leathered brown, nearly black appearance with a slim cap of light tanned, firm froth. Only some dotted lacing sticks. Not a surprise really given the malts this sucker probably has in it. And the aroma is just that. Malts! And lots of em; big on molasses with a slimming caramel swaft and toffee/chocolate bitterness keeping in stride as some root beer candy solidifies a tangyness found only in some overly malted and dark beers such as this. Touches of spice include licorice, dark wheat, under ripe banana peels, and pale bread yeast. Quite nice on the nose. Taste is smooth and inviting with a load of pale chocolate sweetness mixing with a semi tangy molasses, pruney/ plummy, toffee center as it rounds off to the finish quickly and eagerly with some soft dark wheat and banana estery yeasty notes and mild, floating away spices. Not as long of a ride as it should or could be. For some reason I wanted and needed more out of its flavors. What’s there is quite nice, but some how shortened in length enough for an unimpulsive give and take between its fairly thick and silky smooth body and its thicker set aroma. A bit disappointing I’m afaid as far as that’s concerned. Damn solid though. Body is well-rounded, slick, creamy, and smooth with a soft eager pull at the sweetness side of the malts as it rides evenly, somewhat, within a pale chocolate tone over the tanged molasses and pruney/dark candied stuff. Again the finish comes too soon and doesn’t linger for much attention grabbing as it should. Good little nudge of yeasty, wheaty spices make for some interst just before it trails off. Another solid offering by Avery, a bit sliding from the scale in flavor; more so in depth and length really, then the actual taste. But those kinda go hand in hand with me. Needs to be tasty, and stay tasty; ya know what I mean. Don’t get me wrong, the flavors are quite nice, just needed more of them to last. Perhaps it’s better then I’m stating here, solid for sure, and drinkable without any hint to the 9.5 % other then the hit to the head way later as the glass drains pretty easily. And another is needed. Again, Avery has a winner here, not quite a favorite though. Close...oh so close...

Caramelly and chocolatey on the nose. Pours dark brown with a thin white head. Caramel and molasses dominate the flavor, its very smooth but i can taste the age in it.

Pours thick and black with almost no head. Big chocolate malt, roasted malt, wheat, and port aroma. Smooth thick chocolate malt roasted malt taste with an after dinner drink smoothness reminiscent of port. Finishes nice and dry, this ages very nicely.

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...

22 oz bomber pours brownish black small tan head. Roasted chocolate, smoke, and alcohol aromas in the nose. Medium bodied and smooth with dark complex carmel molasses flavors, bready, toffee, and spicy. Damn tasty.

22 oz bomber. Pours a brownish mahogany reddish color with a thick creamy beige head. Aroma is pleasantly malty with hints of dark chocolate,winter spices,dark fruit and freshly baked wheat bread. Taste is malty from the beginning with hints of dark fruit-dates,plums,prunes,dark chocolate,toffee,warm dough bread and fresh yeast. Excellent overall and quite different.

Dark multi brown with a small, light tan cap. Aroma is a nice combination of spicy, fruity yeast, toasted cocoa powder and toffee, and some bread. Subtle, crisp hops also. Malt dominates the flavor- chocolate, cookies, toffee, toastiness, the same spicy, fruity yeast and crips hops in the background. Medium/full body, balanced carbonation. Solid.