Avery Anniversary Thirteen

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

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Bottled. Dark brownish ruby colour, big beige head. Aroma is alcohol, plum and a bit glueish. Flavour is malty, alcoholic and bananas. Some roast and smoke also. Lovely balanced. Pleasantly done and a great session beer.

This beer is a quality effort, and I don’t regret the purchase in any degree. I was just expecing a little bit more. Though it was highly drinkable and enjoyable I would have hoped for a little bit more complexity out of Avery. This is the first beer of their’s that I have tried and I will certainly try more, but I was hoping that they would have tried to go the extra mile and make this brew an exceptional weizen bock.

Creamy and chocolatey. Banana and clove. Really no alcohol flavor for me. Smooth and rich. Not really thick, but full. Some plum. Bitter finish. Even a little hops. The more I drink the more I discover. Brown sugar and molasses arise when it warms. Raisins come out too. Complexity is much better than I first found. A very nice offering from Avery.

Dark brown with a thin head. Alcohol aroma, some dark fruits. Malty, big alcohol flavour, some fruits. The alcohol takes away from the flavour. I don’t get much weizen character.

Dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, wheat, raisons, dark fruits and alcohol. Flavors of dark fruits, wheat, rye, and maple syrup.

Pours a brownish red with a small tan head. The aroma is malty with whiffs of banana and alcohol. The flavor has primarily a roasted quality with some hints at banana and dark fruit.

"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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Lots of alcohol and dried fruit on the nose of this dark brown beer. Noticeable alcohol on top of the wheaty and rye like flavour. Bready with some nice spices and herbs to this chewy goat. Decent beer but just not my thing.

Wheaty, slightly fruity, mint, rye aroma. The weakest part of the beer. Enormously quaffable, especially for 9.5%, with a strong wheat hull flavor, rich chocolate mousse, herbs, mint. Chewy and rich, vastly enjoyable.

Deep dark black in color with a little tan head. Fruity malty aroma. Caramel fruity raisiny notes. Malty caralmel and fruity flavor. Thin bodied. It would be better without the alcohol aftertaste. Thanks for the trade JB.