Avery Thirteen

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

Bottled. Rich and thick molasses and sugary sweet aroma. Tons of malt, plum, brown sugar, and fig. Luscious fruity notes with little hop character. Dark ruby-brown clear liquid topped with a thin off-white creamy lacing head. Medium-heavy body, chewy, with medium carbonation. Warming. Starts big and sweet with huge malt, molasses, brown sugar, anise, plum, and fig. Sweet alcohol, warming, with light carbonic tang. Finishes with light tangy character, a touch of bitterness, and sweetness that is short of cloying. Nutty sweetness, too. Tasty doppelbock with a wheat kick.

Bananas, wheat and roasted malt in the nose. Considerable alcohol presence detected. Some molasses as well. Mostly clear very dark red; almost opaque. Quite sweet, with a high alcohol profile. This is a very good beer. Underrated if you ask me. Small, tan head. I was looking for my weissbier glass and couldn’t find it. I guess that means I need more than one. So, I am using a cross between a flute and a footed pilsner glass; Carlsberg logo. I could swear this beer has a hop profile. The alcohol is a little overbearing; that would be my one knock on this brew. If it were maybe 3/4% lower in ABV, it would be perfect. Another winner from Avery.

I rather liked this one. Very pretty deep ruby with nice, compact and lasting tan head. Aroma a pleasant mix of caramel, molasses, bread, and clove spices. Flavor matched, a great balance between full, sweet malts and gentle esters. Perhaps not "typical," but since I don’t care for the typical bock beers, this would be a good thing. Really liked this actually.

Avery Thirteen came out deep reddish brown in color, and the tall three finger thick head was nearly perfect for a Weizenbock. The aroma was bursting with dark malts. The smell of dark fruits tropical soaked in rum was more reminiscent of a Barleywine than a bock, because of the penchant Avery has for putting in an ample amount of hops without deference to the claimed style. The taste was also bursting with banana, dark fruit, and clove flavors that are typical of a Weizenbock, and a spicy hoppyness that is not. At the end of the session, this beer started morphing into somewhat of a Double Stout, with a roasty dry character coming out. The alcohol was also definitely up there, with warm numbing sensation beginning to permeate throughout the body. Silky smooth and soft on the palette, the beer became creamier as it warmed. I was very impressed with this year’s offering from Avery. It was a ton better than the awful lavender Saison from last year.

Bottle. Pours a slick black color with a light tan head. Chocolate and raisin aromas with an almost citrusy note. Thick mouth feel with a good bit of carbonation. Dry and fruity with a substantial sweetness somewhere mid-palate. Caramel, chocolate, dark fruits and even some slight banana notes. Finishes dry. Slightly hot.

"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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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.

Dark ruby color with generous head. High alcohol content obvious in the malty aroma. Sweet, malty, bready taste. Great chewy palate.Complex and nicely balanced hoppy finish. Perfect example of this style