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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I got lots of spice, some banana and chocolate in the aroma. Tasted like that too, but had a slight metalic aftertaste. Odd style, but it was very good.

Pours a very dark amber with a medium light tan head. Nice carbonation and decent lacing. Aroma is wonderful. Sweet rich candied malts, light spices, and a tad rummy. Flavor is heavy cake malts, spices, and yeasts. A full rich mouthfeel with a spicy bitterness in the finish.

Almost stout like in appearance, nearly opaque dark brown to black with tan head. Nose is typical weizenbock - dark malts, bananna fruit, bread. On the palate is a big caramal to roasted malt sweetness followed by hefty alcohol warmth. Finish is long and alcoholic. Definitely a high % alcohol bock beer.

I’m usually a fan of Avery’s adventures in big beers, but this one just didn’t click for me. Mostly clear, dark mahogany body with a smallish beige head. Retention is fair and there is some sketchy patch lace on the glass. Aroma has malty chocolate, raisins, wheaty notes of clove and banana, and a whiff of fusel alcohol. Odd, but inviting. Medium bodied, low carbonation, slightly fusel in the mouth. Taste features chocolate and clove, oddly accented by green banana. Plenty of toasty and roasty notes here. Some raisin and maple syup in the background but don’t fully emerge. Finishes dry and bitter, with the fusel feel distracting. Flavors just don’t seem properly integrated, as if you just mixed a weizen and a doppelbock in a glass.

22oz Scant, med., head over dark brown lager, ruby in the lite, but barely. Huge malty alco. nose. Taste is muddled :( while the yeast starts out strong, this dies quickly as this beer warms and breathes. Whats left is, as said, a bit too muddled w/ the malt and wheat. Enough w/ da hatin’ this, come though clear w/ notes of fresh banana bread; then as it warms the roast come in. Good, fuck it, maybe great... could be I just wasn’t in the mood for such at the time, need to try again.

Pours a dark ruby brown in color. Smell is all toffee and malt. Taste is incredible, I’m really loving this beer. There is a sweetness coming through that I’m thoroughly enjoying. Smooth on the mouthfeel. I’m definitely going to have to pick up another bottle of this.

Bottle. 22oz. Pours a very dark brown with a poofy tan head. Wheat meets Starbucks meets Hershey Special Dark. Plenty of banana in the mix in conjunction with the rich java and chocolate flavors. Thick and creamy, this was a very nice sipper. Lightly sweet, drink it black just as it pours.

This is a dark! wheat bock; a peaty mahogany color. The smallish ecru head heralds mild-mannered lace leavings. Heady aromas astound with lush prune, clove, beeswax, bayleaf, bitter chocolate, gingerbread spice, and the piney-salty scents of oregano and rosemary. A sweet (tho’ not overly so) flavor overflows with superlative fruitiness: honey and framboise, deepest bittersweet chocolate, mango, black licorice, clove and cranberry… and background wit-like impressions of coriander and bitter orange, plus the comforting, chewy warmth of fresh-baked bread. Through-the-sinuses stiletto ethanol enchants and lobotomizes with gingery the warmth of 9.5 abv. Citric acidity cuts cleanly through a full, juicy-slippery palate. Exotic white pepper, cardamom, marigold, and cola aftertaste is like the afterglow of frantic, sweaty sex with your gf’s sister in a steamy-hot tent . A truly amazing beer… tactile, contemplative, intimidating, and seductive.

Aroma of spices, banana esters, and chocolate. In addition, the flavor has hints of cloves, and fruitiness. A nice bitterness that lingers and the alcohol warms the body. A very complex and balanced beer.

The 22 ounce bottle poured a clear dark ruby red colored beverage with a small fizzy tan head that was completely diminishing but it left some lacing on the glass. The aroma was typical of a doppelbock with loads of dark fruit and molasses notes. The body was medium-full with soft carbonation and a smooth, oily texture. The flavor starts out moderately sweet and gets sweeter toward the end of a somewhat long finish. There is also a good alcohol warmth in the throat at the end as well.