Avery Brett IPA

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

(Draught) Pours a hazy orange body with a small white head. Aroma of leather, floral, citrus, barnyard, and horse blanket. Flavor of brett, hops (floral, herbal, citrus), and caramel malt.

2008 GABF week @ Avery. Unfiltered hazy gold color with a white head. Weird funky brett band-aid nose... the brett is the same used in 15th Anniversary, and sorry, I just can’t stand it... not sure if it’s the particular strain or just how Avery uses it, but it really just comes off far too heavy with the band-aid and plastic phenol notes. Old cheese, feet funk... I mean, that sort of stuff is good when you do it right - see Chouffe, Zinnebir and Taras Boulba - but here nearly all of the hop character is gone from the IPA, and it’s just a messy, band-aid heavy mess... smells like your foot after it’s been wrapped in gauze for a week.

Draught at Avery, GABF week 2009. Pours clear dark yellow with an average frothy white head, somewhat lasting with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, grain, straw, cereal), heavy hop (flowers, grass, pine, grapefruit), heavy yeast (horse blanket, barnyard, cheese, earth) with notes of pepper, ginger, and coriander. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness and acidity, heavy bitterness.

On tap @ Avery Tasting room poured a hazy orange with a small lasting ivory head. Aromas of barnyard, earthiness, horseblanket, light carmel, lioght leather and light spice. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry lightly tart finish. Flavors of carmel, straw, horseblanket, barnyard, earthiness and light pine with a smooth dry lingering bitter finish.

Draught, Avery. Head is mostly lasting. Body is dark yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, cookie), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers), moderately yeasty (barnyard, horseblanket), with notes of gum, band-aid, and manure. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. The Brett is a little rough and too far out in front, but otherwise pretty fun.

Tap at the Brewery. Pours a hazed light amber with a nice head and lace. Aroma is funk, stinky horse farm, grass, phenolic, green hops, light citrus, plastic. Flavor is phenolic, grassy hops, light citrus, horse brett funk, leather, earth, clean and dry with an easy finish. Pretty good.

(Draught during GABF week at the brewery) opaque golden orange pour, thick creamy lasting head. Nose is big and floral, brett, and oranges. Taste of florals, sweet malt, pine, nice balance, oranges and peaches. Slick mouthfeel, very soft carbonation, so creamy and so good.

Tap at Avery - lovely hazy gold pour with an impressive, thick, lasting head - the flavor is pretty much what you would expect - an aggressive, citric hop profile with a fair amount of brett - it works, though - the brett is fairly prominent in this, with a lot of horseblanket and barnyardy character, as well as moderate phenols and come pineapple character - the hops compliment this fairly well - the sweetness is a little higher than I like in my bretty beers, but otherwise a neat and tasty experiment.