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Avery Collaboration Not Litigation

Avery Collaboration Not Litigation - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
93
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Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Boulder, Colorado USA

bottled
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
7183.63/5.03.63/5.0Special8.97%83.1Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Salvation. The name of two intricate Belgian-style ales created by us, Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing and Adam Avery of Avery Brewing. After becoming friends a few years ago, we realized that we both had a Salvation in our line-ups. Was it going to be a problem? Should one of us relinquish the rights? "Hell no!" we said. In fact, it was quickly decided that we should blend the brews to catch the best qualities of each and create an even more complex libation. In April 2004, in top-secret meeting at Russian River Brewing (well actually it was packed in the pub, and many were looking over our shoulders wondering what the hell was going on), we came up with the perfect blend of the two Salvations. Natalie, Vinnie’s much more significant other, exclaimed, "We should call this Collaboration, not Litigation Ale!" "Perfect!" we shouted. We celebrated deep into the night, (or is it morning?). Fast forward to November 14, 2006. After talking about it for over 2 years we finally decided to pull the trigger and Vinnie flew out to Avery to brew his Salvation exactly as he does in his brewery. This was blended with Avery’s Salvation December 11th, 2006. We hope you enjoy it as much we enjoyed brewing and blending it.

Batch 1 (January 2007) - 8.99% ABV
Batch 2 (February 2008) - 8.72% ABV
Batch 3 (February 2009) - 8.97% ABV
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 bblack99 (196), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 31, 2009  
Batch 2 bottle pours a murky copper with a thin head of small, loosely-packed off-white bubbles. Complex aroma of pumpkin, spice, banana, and lots of sweet malt. Creamy texture brings the malty flavor with a bit of yeast, a slight hoppy twang, and a touch of the ~9% ABV, but somewhat falls apart in the finish, becoming weaker and a bit unfocused. As others have said, good but nothing too special, and not exactly what I picture from a strong Belgian.


 markwise (1132), 15 Minutes from Kuhnhenn in, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 30, 2009  
On tap @ Brass Tap Wesley Chapel. Pours gold with a soapy off-white head. Nose is sweet malt, orange, citrus, spice, raw honey, and some pepper. Smooth with lingering sweet malt. Medium to light bodied and nice occasional beer.


 TampaBrew (746), Tampa, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jul 26, 2009  
On tap at the Brass Tap. Poured a deep brown with ruby notes. Nose was sweet malt, earthy hops, spices, flowers, dark fruit. Flavor is a smooth combo of sweet thick roasty malts, floral hops, spices, candy and yeast. Real nice!


 coyotehunter (542), , Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jul 24, 2009  
Bomber thanks to Soonah. Pours a cloudy orange with a fluffy two finger head. Aroma is of some horse barn, some pancake, a little dirt, and some spice such as coriander. Flavor follows suit with the addition of some caramel malt, brown sugar and some apple. Palate is borderline cloying...there is something funky about this beer I cant lay a finger on....but theres something off...light alcohol presence as well. Not bad, but a touch of strange there.


 Bhops (329), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 24, 2009  
Beer was a good. Nice belgian strong ale. Poured amber brown with thinnish head. Very sugary malty smell, some hops underneath. Flavor is quite nice. Typical fruit, some alcohol. Good brew.


 Savvy1982 (303), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/57/103/517/20
Jul 21, 2009  
Bottle from my trip to Whitefish. Pours dark toffee/amber with a thin white head and spotty lacing. Nose is very malty, little ester for a Belgian Strong Ale, pancakes and caramel, maple, toffee, nuts, malty as anything. Hops are present and well-integrated, shows a very floral note that I’m calling lilies. Flavors of candied malt, perfume/rosewater, biscuit, soft red fruit, gets fruitier as it warms, hoppier too. Seems to be more English/German influenced than Belgian. Very odd but very nice.


 hobbersr (393), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 21, 2009  
Pours a golden yellow with brown highlights. Small white head with little lacing. Aroma smells like breakfast. Pancakes, and pancake syrup, biscuits, oranges and spice. Not overly Belgian on the nose, in fact there was hardly any esters at all. This tastes like an ESBelgian. Marris Otter??? Biscuit, dandelion, pancake syrup, spice hops and caramel. Carbonation is nice. Weird mesh of styles. But nice beer.


shortamdstout (3), Alabama, USA
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4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/510/105/520/20
Jul 18, 2009  
loved this brew a great combo of two great beers, nothing bad i can find with this.



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