Two Brothers Avalon Spiced Ale

Bottle from Belmont Party. Poured clear amber color with a large off-white frothy head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate apple cider and spice aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and lively carbonation. Medium spicy sweet flavor with medium sweet finish of moderate duration. This beer met my expectations and went well with my grilled vegtable soup.

Bottle. Pours a brownish orange color with a foamy head. Flavor is dry apples, caramelized malt, cider spices, and a hint of alcohol. Medium bodied with a dry finish. Finish is somewhat tart and un-memorable. Not bad for an apple beer, usually they end up being cloying and sweet. Overall decent, not a bad effort.

Pours a semi-clear copper orange with thick cream-tinged head. Aroma is very tart, yeast and very tart apple cider. Definitely some spicy notes in the aroma. Flavor isn’t overwhelming apply as it is just too tart/a bit sour. Definite spiced caramel undertones. Nothing special or great about this beer.

Crisp clear ruby-tinted amber coloured body with a thin tan head. Aroma of amazing apple cider, malt, yeast, fruit, spice, allspice, cloves and more tart apples. Medium-bodied; Nice apple flavour up front with a good malt backbone, some hops sort of tucked in, some mulling spice, yeast and a bit of a nuttiness. Overall, a good and potent apple flavoured beer that shows some spice, character and a bit of a kick at the end. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York on 20-June-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 04-August-2009.

Bottle shared during a wind down after ABCF. Spiced compost in a glass. Imagine making a fruit salad, accidentally fumbling over your spicerack, & then leaving it on the counter for a couple days for your dog to clean up(but he avoids it). Disturbed sediment pour into a tulip glass. Muddled amber color, dusty white head. Smell is pleasant green apples & light amounts of stale ginger, pungent nutmeg & cinnamon sticks. I was initially eager to sink into this one. Taste is a total fuck up. Ooh, lets add way too much cinnamon to this cider, let’s really mess this shit up. Nutmeg is bitter & adds nothing but unpleasant soapiness. Allspice is way over board. A decent cider base, but it’s just flooded with pounds of dusty/sometimes stale & abused spices. It just becomes a dominate soapy & herbal mess halfway through the initial subtly sweet apples. Soda-like carbonation, & dry mouthfeel are fine, though it doesn’t matter, since the spices just run rampant. Just as bad as it was at Barcade months ago. Shame. Pricey too.

Bottle. Aroma is very sweet, citrus fruity, touch sour apple, and some rich spicy character. Clear orange amber color with a creamy off-white head that leaves splotchy lacing. Fairly sour, green apple, a bit bitter, very dry finish. Faint richness from the spice. Medium bodied, little lasting aftertaste.

Heavy carbonation right out of the bomber, spewing apple cider aroma and light spicing all over. Hugely active yeast. Sudsy-rocky beige head from the constant stream of carbonation on an amber-brown body. Dryish, low bitterness, spices overtake the apples in the mouth. Medium-full body, clean hard malt and lots of effervescence. Yup, just like a cider, perhaps with a bug in the bottle.

Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear nut brown, minimal head. Restrained cinnamon and apple aroma. Fruity sweet and sour flavour. Medium bodied with clean mouthfeel. Light caramel behind apple and spices. Low bitterness. Quite interesting flavour, but the hard, clean malt is not acting to it’s advantage.