Avery Fifteen

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

Bottle courtesy Gillard. Pours a hazy golden with a small white head. The aroma is reminiscent of a perm salon mixed with a leather shop that has a lot of sweet tarts. This is one of the strangest beers I have ever smelled. The taste is the same as the aroma. Medium thin mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness. This beer is strange. I’m going to have to cellar this one to see if it improves with age.

Clear dark gold with a wispy white head. Seriously strong cheesy, moldy barnyard piss aroma reminds me of the breeze from the dairy farm i once lived across the river from in Snoqualmie, Wa. Medium body and softly carbonated. Main flavors are earthy, dusty pale malts with cheesy funk, and a taste of of citrusy lemon which adds some tartness. The biggest barnyard aroma i’ve come across in a long time. Good stuff !

A: Aromas of tart cherries and granny smith apples with a sweet backing scent is the immediate impression. Bretty but not overwhelmingly so. As the glass warms, the brett character gets a little funky and more herbaceous aromas are present. A: Pours a beautiful deep gold/copper with white bubbles dotting the surface of the beer. Aggressive pour yields a substantial inch plus of foam. F: Chilled, the corky brett with some subtle combinations of summer fruit and light spice were dominant. As the glass warmed the malt began to assert itself & beer became a bit sweeter...It retained much of the light bite but added more herbal and floral elements (I guess attributable to the hibiscus) that were more in the realm of savory than sweet. The finish was suitably dry with a nice spritzy & spicy close. O: If you are looking for the figs & white pepper, you’re going to be scratching your head because for the most part the influence of these ingredients seems very subtle at best. It definitely hits the farmhouse/saison vibe & provides some new & interesting flavor combinations that leave you trying to put a finger on exactly what you are tasting.

22oz from Sam’s, Durham. Ah, the Avery hating continues. I really don’t get the slamming, even if not everything is as palate-popping as one might hope. This is a solid brewery doing reasonably price and moderately experimental brews - what’s not to like? Anyways, soapbox over. This beer pours nicely, with a decent amount of carbonation and pleasant golden hue with traces of pink. The aroma is a bit soapy at times, though you can certainly get a sense of the brett and the hibiscus. It’s not actually that tart, and the sweetness at times overpowers the funk - I get barely any sense of the figs or the pepper, which is a shame (though there’s a bit of spice in the dry finish). I feel that this is solid, but if the pepper had been amped up and the hibiscus toned down a bit, I could see rating it substantially higher.

Bottle. Pours gold in color. Smells of funk with some fruit. Flavor is fruity and yeasty. Gets fruitier as I drink it. One of my first bretty beers, but I liked it.

On tap, pours cloudy blond. Starts with a herbal/floral nose. Funly taste farmhouse, an hint of typical Belgian yeast with apricot/peach aroma. Found it to be a little sour. The fruity aroma seemed more present as the beer got warmer. Not terribly impressed by it.

This annivesary brew pours a hazy light orange-yellow color with a medium thick and foamy off-white head that dissipates slowly. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of a horse saddle in a barn located in a fruit orchard. Medium-bodied with tart fruit, spice and hay flavors. Musty malt flavors are present at times too.The finish is an odd mix of tart fruit and peppery spices with a lingering ripe fruit aftertaste. Overall this beer was not overly enjoyable for me, and the "funky" tag is very appropriate. I can appreciate that Avery is trying something different though.

Bottle thanks to 1_2many. I guess it’s not a bad farmhouse ale, but nothing spectacular. It was smooth, but also slightly bland. If you are used to authentic Belgian wild yeast ales, this will probably disappoint you.