Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Brown/red. Very rich sweet caramel lots! of malts, dark fruits - meets high american IBU (Tasted at the BASMOF Nytårskur 07/08 12-01-2008)

Poured a dark mahogany with a fizzy/frothy light tan head. Aroma of sweet grapes, orange juice, and a touch of bitter pine and grapefruit rind. Taste is quite dry with notes of dark fruits and orange rind with perhaps a bit of toffee, quickly getting overwhelmed by alcohol. Finishes dry and a tad metallic without a lot of hops in the background. Decently complex and pretty tasty, though the astringency of the alcohol could have been more controlled. This would have been better with 1-2% less ABV.

UPDATED: AUG 18, 2009 Pours a clear brown color with a thin light brown head. The aroma is earthy with chocolate, hops and fruits. Flavor of resinous hops, chocolate and bitterness in the end. The body is light with a liquorous texture and gentle carbonation.

defintinly has a floral smell and taste. Good all round beer. I guess American Strong Ale fits this one good but the strong is well hidden because alcohol is matched well with the hops.

The aroma was nicely hoppy with a grassy presence through the large bubbled tan head. As the head fell the aroma became grassy chocolate and a bit of roast with caramel. The aroma was spicy with hops as well and just a bit fruity. The beer poured into the glass crystal clear brown with an amber highlight. The head lasted very long to coat the glass. The flavor was nice with a strong dark chocolate and light roast flavor and a grassy hop bittering and flavor which was also a bit citrusy and spicy. Not quite resinous, but almost. Smooth chocolate and caramel coupled to the citrus made for a nice mid-flavor combination. The finish was ultimately dry with a light lasting grassy/citrus hop flavor into the aftertaste. The body was medium-full with a moderate level of carbonation. The only place that alcohol reared its ugly head was in the warming which occurred post consumption. I can did this beer! 22 ounce bottle.

American strong ale??? catagory for beers that have no catagory. Extra points for an alcohol reading to the hundredth decimal point. and extra points for the amazing lacing that followed my drink to the bottom of the glass. real good brew .....give it a try.

Pours a dark brown with no haze. Huge, creamy, frothy off-white head that disappears slowly and leaves a sticky lace all over the glass. Smells of sweet sugars and malts right up front, but you also get the tell tale citrusy smell of hops. Tastes big and sweet, a little chocolatey up front with a little coffee as well. Hoppy on the finish, sweet citrusy, orange. A bit thick, with pretty good carbonation. This beer is very, very tasty and interesting.

Pours an opaque, near black with ruby edges and a rocky beige head that dimples as it fades, leaving great lacing. The nose is very hoppy, with peppery, zesty citric hops, pine resin and rye malt, with a nougat-like, nutty malt backbone. The flavour is similar, with zesty orange-flavoured hops, fragrant phenolic hops, dried pitted fruits, pine, sweet caramel malts and nutty nougat-like notes. The finish is insanely dry, more so than many piney IPA’s. A creamy medium body complements the id-palate flavours, but the finish is overly dry and zesty, exhibiting hop bitterness over hop flavour. This is a nice American strong ale, and a really intense one at that.