Avery Fifteen

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

From tap at Pizza Port, Carlsbad. Pours almost clear orange with a lacing white head. Milky and acidic aroma. Flavour is spiced and milky lacto to light acidic/citric brett. Dry yet mild spiced with a light acidic touch into the finish. Interesting new brew from Avery.

22 oz Bomber-Poured a cloudy golden color w/a moderate white head. Great spiced Belgian aroma. Flavor really jumps out & grabs you, yeast, spice, floral traces, figs, & cane sugar. Very fresh, a little rough around the edges, but in a good way. Tastes very pure & unfiltered. I really liked this one a lot; Long spiced finish.

I would have to be in just the right mood for this, and I wasn’t. Tap at Pap. One of the most effervescent Belgians I have had: like a carbonated Farmhouse. Hops, yeast, straw, unripe strawberry and funk are the flavor features, with all but the berry showing up in the nose. A VERY clean beer, but flavor is not particularly engaging.

Draught at 4th Ave. Cloudy orange/amber with a minimal pour. Funky, moldy aroma over a sweet berry essence. Generally sweet and fruity flavor--cherries, raisins, wild berries, but with a funky, almost yogurty sourness and a leathery dryness on the finish and aftertaste. I’m not enough of a Brett maven to tell whether this strain is working here or not. Overall it seems like an interesting experiment if anything.

got to try this on tap at papago before i cracked a bomber... looks like it’s gonna be cool when the brett takes over... pours a hazy orange golden with a white head and light drippy lacing. the aroma is strange... rather biere de garde-ish... orange, cinnamon, clove, lots of yeast, light apple cider vinegar/sour fruit without the harshness, minerals, wood, funky and weird. the flavor is a bit strange... it’s very medicinal and mineral-y akin to vitamin pills, wood, musty funk, cinnamon/clove/spice, lots of weird and a spicy dry finish. light to medium body. prickly mouth feel from high carbonation seems to work... i’m confused...7/4/7/3/15/3.6

bottle sampled one year after release... this has been sitting at room temperature the entire time! it has almost a pure bretty stink on the nose!... ok, there are some notes of malty sweetness, flowers, earth and fruit... peaches and oranges but not figs. again, on the palate there is a fruitiness but fo’ sho’ not figs... flavors of sweet juicy apricots?, oranges, cement, flowers and an herbaceous bretty finish. it is pretty dry throughout and at times shows some tartness. it is medium bodied with a light airy carbonation... refreshingly weird and impressive... hitting its stride.9/4/8/4/17/4.2

Murky apricot puree body with abundant yeast sediment, spritzy medium off-white head. Fairly strong pineapple aroma, tart, sourish, and sweaty, with light spice. Boozy body, the sharp carbonation carrying the spicy esters and light fruits (pineapple, primarily). None of the sourness promised by the aroma. Average, somewhat boring beer after a promising aroma.

Very interesting. Brett is a "wild" yeast with highly variable characteristics. I applaud Avery for the attempt. I don’t much care for the result. The head, color, general appearance, mouthfeel are all good. The flavors are strange, with a real bump of biochemistry sourness early on. I wonder if a different fruit, perhaps cherry, would have created a better result.

(22oz. bottle, courtesy of Lumpy) Pours a hazy golden orange body with a small white head. Aroma of florals, leather, plum, and earth. Flavor of cattail, floral, dark fruit, pepper, and some funkiness.