Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Pours a dark brown with a nice tan head that leaves lacing. I can’t quite get the aroma. It’s got plenty of fruits in the nose and roasted malts, but something more. Almost like a stout but not quite. The aroma is coated with chocolates and plenty of spicy hops in the finish. There’s some alcohol following the chocolates. This is a very different type beer, but not bad.

Bottle. Pours a deep reddish brown, with a big, tan fluffy head. Prominent bands of lacing on the glass. Big plum aroma. Caramel, licorice, molasses. Fairly hoppy. Some nice chocolate. Pretty cool. Dried fruit flavors, with a rich brown sugar taste. Licorice, molasses, fig, nutmeg, and a nice spicy mouthfeel. Simply delicious. Bitter finish, and well-balanced. Surprisingly easy drinking. A very unique beer, and was definitely surprised by this one.

Sweet. Malty. Pours a thick head. The taste is hard to pin down. American Strong? Maybe. But nothing like other strong ales out there. Caramel and a bit of chocolate for sure. Nice dark taste. My sister hooked me p with this one. Much thanks.

Dark brown with medium brown head. Sweet aroma with notes of hops, grapefruit and caramel. Sweet flavor with hops, caramel and chocolate notes. Ends bitter.

(bottle - 22 oz) Murky brown pour with a thick tan head. About an inch of foam. Aroma is light with hints of dark malts, alcohol, and molasses. Flavor is bitter and malty at the beginning with a creamy and sweet middle and a very warming and bitter finish. Aftertaste is a mixture of malts, dark fruits, and molasses.

Solid strong ale from Avery. Pours dark and looks oily and thick but is not... would be better if it was ! However, the hops, the malts, the fruity flavors, the extremeness of the beer it all works. It’s a good beer to sample.

Huge beige head, rather fine bubbled and irregular, leaving some lacerings over deep dark beer with a ruby shine. Dark malts, alcohol and fusels, USA hops, cardboard, caramel and something perfumey-soapy. Generally speaking delicate and discreet nose. Bitterish, both hoppy & roasted, and a spicy flavour, reminding me of cumin; melanoidins. There’s quite some toffee & caramel, even molasses, but the hopgift quickly smothers it all. Good balance for an impressive brew. Very slick and well-bodied, alcoholwarming; Better balanced, discreter than most Avery brews I discovered, and for a rather massive ale, at that. Thanks, David A!

A dark beer with a pine and dried fruit nose. Sweet and very hoppy with strong flavors. Complex and a lot happening. Mild sweet clean finish. Great example of an American Strong Ale.