Avery Thirteen

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

Bottle. Red brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is alcohol, licorice, coffee. flavour is alcohol, hop, roasted, dried fruits, licorice, malt. Nice beer.

Draught pint at Sunset Grill on 8/4/06. Not sure why I forgot this one.
Chalk-colored grey/off-white head is small and shows low to moderate retention, eventually receding to a ring/partial-cover. Dark, cola-brown liquid shows soy/tan highlights in the light and has a medium-high clarity with quite a bit of large-bubbled carbonation rushing about. Little/no lacing created.
Chocolate cola notes quickly mix with cotton candy and bubble gum. Seems this is going to be some sugary stuff based on a quick sniff. Some assertive roast always seems to do this style well, but here it seems pushed over by the pale malt sugars or just plain non-existent. Wheat is pretty few and far between and more of that would soften this insipid sweetness oozing from the liquid. Not to mention, there is hardly any bock-like yeastiness on the finish, perhaps just a pinch of light vinousness. Honestly smells more like a simple, amped-up dunkel with some weizen yeast qualities, though very light at that. Some light banana cream notes and too much cola and bubble gum. Where the hell is all of this cola coming from? Aroma strength, furthermore, is not very strong, though nor is it alcoholic/fuselic.
Less bubble gum, thank god, in the flavor. In its place, there is more sticky caramel, light fudgey chocolate and yes, cola. Little/no sourish bockiness, a rather gassy, overcarbonated body which is too sugary/sweet no matter how much CO2 you cut it with and hardly any real wheat dryness/softness. And as it warms, the slight alcohol warmth turns in to a more raw fusel sharpness. Black pepper-like phenol astringency further clouds the finish and some dry, bland breadiness emerges as well.

(660ml bottle) The kings of high alcohol beers - good grief?!?! Boozy, fruity malt nose. Too strong - almost gasoline fuel. Not to bad a burn considering the ABV. My biggest problem with this brewery is that they CAN BREW but choose to compete in a childish Who can make the highest ABV annual? Ridiculous.

22-oz. bottle. Pours a dark walnut brown with a small frothy head that dissiipates to a patchy and edgy film, some lined lacing. Aroma is dark wheat malt (biscuit), yeast (dough), earth notes, caramel sweet malt. Medium sweet caramel malty and wheat flavor, slight hint of alcohol, creamy and nutty. Medium to full bodied, foamy, fizzy and creamy palate.

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.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry, mds & tupalev -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a very murky dark reddish-brown with an average size mostly-lasting creamy off-white head. Aroma of dark malt, dark fruit, chocolate, brown sugar, spices -- it’s a little lactic too -- pretty nice. Wow, flavour’s even better! Chocolatey along with caramel malt, yeast, brown sugar, some hops and a sweet finish. Alcohol’s well hidden. Nice thick body. The reviews for this are all over the place, good for Avery for trying something different and unique -- as for me, I really liked it.

Bomber poured a clear dark brown with a lasting amber head leaving behind nice lacing as I drink it. Aromas of banana, a hint of bubblegum, wheat and light spice notes. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of chocolate, toffee, carmel, a bit of fruitiness and light spice with a smooth lingering semisweet finish.

Bottle. Small tan fizzy head that was mostly lasting along with a decent amount of lacing, transparent, visible carbonation, and a dark ruby hue. Nose was mildly malty, sweet, fruity and spicy. Flavor was sweet, toffee, cocoa, bready, and spicy. Tingly palate. Medium body.