Avery Brabant

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

12oz bottle-pours a tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is oak, wine, dark malt, vinuous, funky. Taste is oak, wine, dark malt, vinuous, funky/tart, bitter. Dry. Thanks to russpowell for trade with Joe-jwc215 and me.

12 oz. bottle. Bottled 2/10/09 Tasted 7/12/09 with Gsbe. Pours a thick head of long duration, over a dark, (SRM 40) body....nose is vinuous, reminscent of Balsamic Vinegar, barnyard funk, horse hide....taste initially is barnyard, horse stall, sourness floats through, lingering brett. A very interesting and incredibly complex beer and an interesting experiment.

Strong aroma of babyfood prunes, grapes, and musk. Dark brown with a thick tan head, good lacing. Musky, vinous, prunes, currants, and raisins. Understated bark finish. Harsh acidic mouthfeel.

Bottle. Moderate aromas all around, toasted for the malt, flowers and herbs for the hops earth fort he yeast, with background notes of grape, cask wood, charcoal and vinegar, Head is fizzy, light brown with virtually no lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is dark brown with a red tint. Flavor starts moderately sweet and acidic, and acetic then finishes moderately acidic, lightly bitter and acetic. Palate is medium, oily and has a lively to fizzy carbonation. An interesting beverage as far as taste goes. Seems stuck between a wine and a beer.

This looked like red wine when I was pouring it, but in the glass it was a deep reddish brown with a light brown head, good lacing. Fantastic aroma, sour, dark fruits, Belgian funkyness, plum and cherry, earthy. Malts are towards the end and have hints of chocolate and anise. Finish is dry with the feeling of grape skins. Weird, complex and very good.

Poured a dark brown with small head. Nose was heavy on red wine grapes and not much else. Flavor is dominated by the zinfandel barrel. Not very sour, its got a fair amount of vinegar, a little bit of spiciness, but as everyone haas already stated, this one needs more time to see if it can get more sour of if the brett can maybe change things up a little.

Gotta imagine this needs more time to let the brett or something do its thing. Tasted like it was trying to be sour, but couldnt quite get there. Dark pour, some sour notes but barely enough to get a "sour" tag, some tannin presence, cherries, wood andotes of the brett.

I had high expectations for this beer, given its high price tag, and it delivered. If you like sour and funky, this is a beer for you. Somehow I didn’t expect this beer to be dark when it came out of the bottle. Aroma is sour-sour-sour, with what I think of when I think of brettanomyces, maybe a touch of balsamic vinegar, and sour cherriness. Flavor is reminiscent of a Cantillon lambic, but amped up. There is also a "chalky" taste to it that seemed to fade once the beer warmed. Liked it more and more as I drank it. Quite good, but still over-priced....which, incidentally, beats over-priced and lousy.