Avery Fifteen

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.

Bottle. Very light and hazy. Interesting spicy nose and flavor. This beer is sweet, spicy, smooth, and easy to drink but won’t blow you away.

22 oz bottle - Pours crystal clear yellow/orange color with smallish pure white head that quickly dissapates. Aroma has faint chewy malts, note of tart cherries, light charamel, faint funkyness, touch of bananna, subtle metallic notes. Flavor is somewhat metallic, mildly tart, touch of cherry and leather. Finish is mildly bitter. Not truly bad, but not good.

A soft pour produces a three-finger thick, frothy, off-white colored head that produces structural plateaus and leave a thick layer of lace as it slowly subsides. This is very well carbonated with madly streaming bubble swirling around in the clear, copper colored elixir. When held up to the light it shows a brilliantly clear, bright copper color. The aroma has an up front phenolic note that is a mix of Band-Aid, phenolic resin and musty, moldy leather. Underneath the phenolics there is a grassy grain character, a fruitiness reminiscent of pear and apple, some wood like spiciness as well as a touch of black pepper. Truthfully though it is hard to smell anything under the expressive phenolic notes it is not quite excessive though and is actually somewhat enjoyable if you like funk.p Lightly sweet, with a bright fruitiness up front that reminds me of ripe pears, green apples and perhaps a touch of melon. The late middle and finish are dominated by phenolics Band-Aid and plastic are prominent and everything produces a sort of cotton mouth sensation on the palate. A certain, cured leather like flavor is here as well as is a bit of a peppery bite (up front from the carbonation and in the finish from fermentation & spice character). There is a light herbal note running throughout the flavor profile that becomes slightly noticeable after a bit and in fact seems to be contributed by the hibiscus. The phenolic notes seem to round out just a touch as the beer warms and as my palate becomes fatigued from the initial onslaught. Some hay-like and saltine-cracker malt notes become a bit more noticeable.p Fairly light bodied, though it does have a touch of heft to it that lets you know this is a bigger beer. An interesting beer, the phenolics are a bit too much, but such is the danger of working with Brett. I think that this needs to be tried at warmer temperatures as the cold temperature it started out at seems to have accentuated the phenolic notes perhaps it is just that the other flavors are much more noticeable once it is warm. As phenolics do have a tendency to be reduced with time in funky beers, I will be curious to try this in another year. pPurchased: a hrefequalshttp://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceIDequals698uPlaza Liquors, Tucson AZ/u/abr

Bomber from Champagne’s consumed on my porch. I am going to cut thru the BS here. I could barely get past the nose. All I could think of was urine. Once I made it past that point I was so incredibly underwhelmed by this beer. And I love the Maharaja which is why I tried this. Avery ought to take notes from Goose Island on brewing something really special for landmark anniversaries ie: Bourbon County stout. This was really poor. Sorry.