Avery Anniversary Fifteen

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle. Light orange pour, hazy, monster fluffy white head. Aroma of sour citrus and hay. Taste is mediciny - sour saison like.

This is a good example of a farmhouse ale, it is very wheaty and is unfiltered for the old-fashioned look and feel. It has a sour flavor through and through, however it doesn’t really compliment any of the flavors in the beer; it seems like it is sour for the sake of being sour.

Weird. Reminds of a lame jolly pumpkin beer. Cloudy orange with minimal white head. Funky sour, citrus, vinegar aroma. Very tart. Extremely mild flavor. Not tart, unlike the nose. Earthy, funky and overall bland. Hints of stone, bread, yeast and dough.

Bomber shared by Lubiere (merci!), served cold in a goblet. Bottled April 2008. 19MA10.

App.: Cloudy golden with a small white head. Aroma: Nice barnyard funk, sour fruits, old apple juice, spicy. Palate: Medium body, moderate, sparkling effervescence. Flav.: Nice dried fruits, some esters, some dusty barnyard, slight warm spices; pleasant malt with only a touch of tartness.

Quite interesting...Brett without the bite.

Bomber poured into Trappist glass. Bottled in April 2008. Drank in May 2010. Aroma is so pungently funky with Brett, it’s almost overbearing! I love it! (Sorry, Brenn79, I know you hate it when I use the word funky in all my reviews of beers involving Brettanomyces. No other word fits as well!!) Sour sour aroma with notes of figs. Pours a hazy yellowish orange with a medium head and foamy lacework. Taste starts out a little sweet, but the sourness dominates. Very little bitterness. This is one of the fullest bodied beers I’ve ever had. Finishes with a floral acidic mouth-filling aftertaste. Carbonation is medium; oily and creamy texture. I’m surprised at the average score here. I’m blown away by this one. Perhaps the reviewers who ranked it fresh should rerank it now that it’s aged a little? One other thing--the category this beer is under on here is "Belgian Ale" which isn’t very specific. It definitely fits the description of a sour ale.

Thin head on top of a hazy golden beer. Overwhelming aroma of hay and manure. Tastes like a somewhat bitter Belgian blonde. I’m not fond of the style to begin with, and the smell makes it worse.

Pours a hazy amber with a nice fizzy head that produces decent lacing. Aroma is grass, spices(pepper), funk and florals. Taste is initially peppery, with sweetness in the middle and a sour finish. More complex the I initially thought on first tasting.

22oz bottle pours a pretty shade of light yellow billowy head decent carbonation. smell is apple and peach with a lil black pepper dashed atop taste is a nice mix of barnyard funk and fruit with dashes of bret very yummy brew didnt care for it fresh to much but have revisited it two times and seems to be gettin better