Avery Brabant

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle thanks to Butters. Black, red hints. Beige head. Aroma is funky, all brett, lavender. Taste is funk, lavender, horseblanket, dust. I want to say roast because of the color, but it isn’t there. All floral, some grassy hops.

Bottle pour.Dark brown color with with a medium beige head.Musty funk smell with a hint of the Zin.Taste was not what I expected but was very good,not quite as sour as I thought it would be,but the brett does come through and blends nicely with the wine and oak flavors,hints of cherries and chocolate come through at the end.Not very smooth but decent.Not bad at all,can’t wait to try the others in this series.

This is a darker color than expected, almost looking black once poured. A thin layer of head retention stays on top. The aroma is wine-like with oak, cherries, some dark fruit as well. Interesting blend of flavors; berries and light fruit combine with dark fruits (plums), light vinegar notes, cardboard in the finish. Toasted grains mix in that are interesting but seem a little out of place. The brett is there and dries it up and gives this some sourness but really not all that tart. I’ve got another bottle so I’m curious to see how this does a year or so down the road.

a very interesting beer, alot of black olive tapenade, oak and dark fruit flavors, not a lot of balance but the concept is so interesting.

i’ve had this on more than a few occasions. started off bad got average, then went downhill. now it tastes like sulphur...and i mean liquid matches. there is a nice prune like sweet note, but the prune/plum flavor is an ender.tastes like it smells...not something good here. ever burped coke, peanuts, fear and another taste while your older brother peeled out in front of the cops while another brother farted in front of your face? well... i have and it is shockingly similar. hmmm, i like the experiment. just not the result.

Bottle. Pours a surprisingly dark brown with a lively bubbly head. Aroma is all brett and musty yeast and a bit of wood. It immediatley turned off my wife and her mother. Palate is effervescent and lively, with flavours of sour cherries and faint chocolate and wood. Finish is a little lactic and sour, without quite being tart or quenching.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear dark mahogany brown body with a one finger fizzy light brown head that faded to a thin film. The nose is quite fruity with a very vinous quality. Lots of dark red wine, oak, and some cellar funkiness. A light hint of alcohol, cider vinegar, and sour cherry all come out a little stronger as it warms. The flavor is nowhere near as sour and acetic as I was expecting based on the nose. The funk and sourness is very restrained and subtle. The brett influence shows stronger than anything else, followed by some raw oak flavor, then the red wine character. One thing I don’t seem to care for is the noticeable alcohol, I prefer my Sours to be more about the funk than the alcohol. Medium bodied while being fairly dry on the finish with very fine fizzy carbonation. This was OK overall, but pretty middle of the pack as far as American Wild Ales go. I would have liked a little more sourness and brightness from this. A pretty good effort from a brewery that I’m not all that thrilled with usually.

Overall the mind expanded due to subtle hints of the sour goodness within the contents of the liquid living. Gracious yes, let it be. Welcome the new style of marking the consumption of a brew.