Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Pours a dark reddish ruby red brown, clear, with a thin tan head. Sweeter malt and alcohol. Some toast, slight roast, a little caramel. Some small cinnamon. Thinner low carbonation body. Boozy slightly sweet. A little toasty astringency. Some small roast. Not the deepest. Some chocolate. Alcohol finish.

Brought out at Cameron’s Brewing Cask night. deep mhogany brown, some foam. Nose is pine hops and sweet malts. Taste is hops sweet malts molasses and booze, but still balanced and enjoyable

Bottle from Bruisin’ Ales in Asheville. Deep dark brown pour with slightly disappointing head. Malt, tons of spice (coriander?), cola, chicory, and hops on the nose. Very reminiscent of a spiced winter brew to me. A bit over the top. Similar on the palate. Too much malt sweetness and cloying spice. Palate feels nice, and the hops are tasty, though. A strange and not entirely pleasant beer.

22 oz bottle. Poured a lovely dark brown with burgundy highlights & a thick brown head. The head gradually recedes to a foam that coats the glass for the entire beer. Nose is dark fruit & earthy funk. Flavor was fig, raisin, plum as well as some caramel. Some minor hop presence as well.

Avery’s commemorative beer, celebrating fourteen hard fought years in an up and coming American industry is certainly a busy one. A thick wet tree bark brown head springs up from a dastardly dark body as soon as the pour finishes its graceful bow, giving ruse to a mixed aroma. Fresh produce is the theme, with lemon, ginger, cucumber, vinegar, sweet corn, brocolli, fresh salad greens, compost, mandarin orange and even a wisp of patchouli entertaining my nose, as if I were strolling through a fresh farmer’s market. The taste is pungent as well, though not with the strand of produce scents - those appear exclusively in the finish. The flavor begins with a darker smoke and licorice combination, along with Elmer’s glue, pool chlorine and raisin. A second stage proceeds, with hops, apple acting as quick preludes to the vegetable blend aftertaste. Each of these "stages" might be good by themselves, but put together there’s too much happening and too much discord - a jumble of flavors without direction.

Pour is dark ruby brown with a dense thick light brown head....smell is very lightly fruity with pears, grapes, and grapefruit and hints of pine....taste is earthy and sweet at first with tobacco, prunes, raisins, dirt, and a little bit of grapefruit...finish is sweet at first turning bitter as the missing Avery hop character comes out....good...

This brew pours a sassy dark, brown colour with a vanilla coloured head. FUll of nutty aromas but not sweet. roasted nuts and tree bark. milk chocolate and cajun seasoning, tobacco and cigars in the taste. A bright lively mouthfeel and very tastey. Not too rich, which i liked :)

bottle, head quickly fades, has a muddy coca cola color with an alcohol raisin and malt nose, flavor is dry and ashen with some sour cherry, interesting finish of blue chees and a little smoke