Avery Brabant

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

Color is a near black brown with light carbonation and a very thin head. Aroma is a sour scent with a touch of fruit. Taste is zingy and sour. Starting with a light medium body it goes down crisp. Finish sour with a fruity wine like sweetness underneath. After taste leaves you with a wine like zing. This is an interesting brew and one of the best I have had that has brett in it.

Bottle. From Bev4Less. Nice amber/brown color, nose is uh oh sour. Surprisingly smooth, lightly sour, and dare I say, refreshing. Well done, and not overblown.

Bottle. Dirty rust pour with a thin tan head. Aroma of funk, brett, oak, fruits, spice, earth. Flavors of very light funk, oak/wood, tart/spicy fruits, bit of bready malt, definitely get some zin qualities here. Medium body well carbonated, malty, tart/spicy, crisp woodiness, fruity, and a bit funky. Pretty good stuff really, a nice blend of bready malt vs tannic/tart fruits. An enjoyable sipper, I like when I can get my brett craving and have a bit of a malt backbone to cut through what would be gut-wrenching sourness...not to say gut wrenching sourness isn’t nice from time to time. It will be interesting to see what a year or so does to this...

Bottle from Papago shared by Shyam. Thanks man! Nose is my favorite part because it smells earthy, richly wooded, richly graped and very authentically funky. Off to a good start. The flavor is just needlessly subdued - disappointingly so - like CdT; baffling in something with Strong in the style name. Flavor of red wine, vanilla wood, tannins. Not at all sour despite a great funky nose. Sad panda.

12oz bottle, thanks to kan! pours dark brown with off white head. nose is glassy, cherry, zinfandel, sourish touch of roast. flavors are sour, moldy, musty, vegetal, cherry and mild dark fruit, vinious, woody. thin mouth feel. long unappealing finish. this is sort of gross guys.

12oz bottle from west lakeview.....pours a dark caramel cola brown with a soapy yet wispy off-white head....aroma of tartness, lightly woody, soft vanilla, some chemical aspect to it.... flavors are sweet and sour, slightly tannic. average mouthfeel and carbonation... all in all, doesn’t come together all that well.

Courtesy of BDR. Black color with a thin head. Strong winey aroma. Fruit. The taste is quite different. A bit of dark, charred malt and metallic. Light Brett character, mainly horsey. Very vinious, but none of the fruit the nose suggested.

Bottle purchased at Rozi’s in Lakewood. Bottled on 2-10-09. The pour on this one was surprisingly dark, it is pretty much black and a thin lace of mocha foam on top. The aroma, well, that was somewhat unsuspected as well. This smelled very funky and earthy. Lots of wild-smelling yeast, musky farmhouse scent and a little bit of wood. Maybe my imagination is running away with me, but I did detect a little bit of wood and grape juice in the aroma. The flavor is equally as funkified. Fruity woody earthy flavors abound, yet the initial crispness overshadows some of the finer notes. It does end rather nicely for the mouthfeel. It thickens up a little and ends nice and viscous. It leaves a very leafy and dark fruit flavor on the close.