Avery Brabant

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle thanks to portableparty! Dark black pour, a little ring of carbonation and a slightly sour red wine aroma. Light, effervescent, lively body, flavors of funky red wine, red grape peels and slightly boozy on the finish. Decent beer, worth a try if you can still find a bottle.

Bottle to snifter. Pretty stoked to see this on the shelf at my local store! Pours dark brown with a soapy kahki head that dissipates to a whispy film and tight collar. Aroma is pure funk and wet wine corks with hints of sourness and white grapes that have spoiled. Taste is really funky, but pleasent at the same time, I get wood, wine, corks, and rotten grapes with a sour bitterness throughout. The sourness is definitly on the back end of this compared to other sours, but the funk is strong. Palate is medium and slick with a subtle fizz and ends dry. Really glad I got to try this one, definitly worth trying!

A deep dark brown sour ale with a thick brown head. In aroma, a superb molassy anf grassy sour mash, with white grapeskins, Orval Brett, cork and pepper and alcohol warmth. In mouth, a smooth yet sour dark malt with dark fruits, molasses, soysauce, fruity acidity, warming and nice. Tasted with Probstk. Bottle from Federal Wine in Boston, approx. a year old.

12 oz bottle. Pours pretty much black with a yellowy off-white head. Tart, funky aroma, vinegary with barrel notes, red fruits, and dark fruits. First thing that strikes me in the flavor after a quick tart note is a nutty, earthy flavor, moving into red grape and cocoa, oak, still with a general tartness and dry bretty funk. This is pretty good, but it feels like it could stand to be less restrained. The flavors are overall a bit too mellow, at least after two and a half years in the bottle.

(bottle courtesy of BeerandBlues2, sampled 7/5/10). Dark amber color. Medium off white head. Moderate brett aroma with light sourness. Flavor of the same, with light wine character. Long duration. Dry finish. Slick texture. Soft carbonation. Fair lacing.

12oz bottle poured into snifter. Dark murky color with very little head. Slight sour cherry aroma with faint hints of oak. Flavor is slightly sour and tart but nothing over the top. A sort of "middle of the road" type sour but still very enjoyable.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a tan head. Has a fruity malty sour tart aroma. Fruity sour tart woody flavor with bitter hints. Has a fruity malty sour tart woody finish.

Pours murky brown with a medium tan head. Smells of cherries and red wine. Tastes almost more like a zinfandel aged in beer barrels than the reverse. Wish I’d been eating a steak with it.