Avery 14er ESB

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Boulder, Colorado USA

All right! Here is a cause for celebration - a beer from one of my fave brewers that I have not seen before. Very fine aroma - rich and sweet with hop scents. Nice label, sheet lace on the glass. The flavor is unusually and enjoyably sweet for a bitter, but the herby, clean hops still have their say. Another high ranking release from Avery.

12 oz bottle served in a tulip. Pour is a hazy amber with a half inch of white head. Nose is malts, trisquits, caramel, and hard water. Taste is the same, but there is an odd symbiotic relationship between the caramel smoothness and hard water bitter. I would not have guessed this to be enjoyable, but it is not too bad. It is also quite sessionable!

Pours a lightly hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is earthy malt and floral hops. Flavor is light malt and a good bit of hop. Easy to drink.

Earthy, biscuity aroma. Some butter in there too. The appearance is an amber color, white head, true to the style. The flavor follows the aroma, malty, earthy, biscuit, and piney hops. The finish is dominated by the piney hops, and the medium, smooth, light carbonation. Decent overall. I think the biscuit and butter thing in this beer might be inadvertant, but it works.

Orange amber color and quite cloudy. Nice rocky head; leaves ample lace. Strong earthy and malty smells; Biscuity with crystal malt presence. Very British in flavor. Far more hop in the swallow and aftertaste than the smell would indicate. Dry. Weak body with a higher than average carbonation level. In some ways, this is spot on in recreating the style.

Hazy light orange with lots of lace and a healthy crown of foam. The light creates a nice glow. THe bready malt of an English style ale but with a notable bitter hop presence. The malt smells very English. Bitter, of course. Really nice biscuity sweet malt presence, but with a flowery, bitter hop at the swallow. Well-balanced between the strong flavors. Mild and far from any kind of extreme beer. Medium body, doesn’t linger much. Unobtrusive but not thin. Sweet bready and English. A nice, mild beer with a bitter bit. A great change of pace beer.

Pours a clear, light golden hue from the 12oz. bottle: Aroma of florals, yeast, and bitter hops. Compared to the aroma, the flavors (malts, grain, citrus, maybe grassy) are a bit one-dimensional and light. Driankbility: Thin and quite unimpressive. Rebuy: Willing to rerate. #173 on 29102009, DG.

Pours a beautiful copper color. Aroma of floral hops. Taste has the initial bitterness of hops with a nicely balanced malty finish. Good.