Avery Fifteen

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

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 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.

Bomber from BevMo. Pours a hazy orangish color. Dry dusty aroma, somewhat musty. A little sour fruitiness. Reminds me a really old Belgian something. Fairly spicy. A little bit of sourness going on. Interesting brew.

Standard hazy golden with white head. Sweet and tartish pineapple, cherries, and rotting apples in both aroma and taste. Quite good, and certainly funky, but has some cloying aspects to the finish.

cloudy orange pour with a medium sized white head. Aroma is foot and pepper. Flavor has more cheese/foot, along with the flowers and spices they used. The white pepper mixed very well with the fig, and the brett didn’t make that much of a funky appearance as I thought it would. Everything mixed pretty well in the finish. Pretty watery but I was assuming it would be. Very nice.

22 oz bottle from Bev4less. Pours a cloudy yellow-orange with a small white head that quickly recedes to 1/4 inch. The aroma is loaded with funky brett, pepper, herbs and something floral. The taste was interesting with many complex flavors, as described in the aroma, but it really did not appeal to me. This all seemed to come together as a bit experimental. The mouthfeel was on the thin side and the carbonation was soft. The finish was long with lingering floral accents and something that tasted like burped-up vitamins. Overall: Much is amiss and out of balance with this one, but I still give them points for trying.