Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Darker brown pour with a medium tan-beige head. Aroma is sweet with some dominant citrus and floral hops along with some nice rye and darker fruit. Flavor has a pleasant grass/citrus hoppiness wth some rye, honey, molasses, and a good overall sweetness. Nice brew - would be extremely unique if it weren’t for Stone 11th Anniversary - it doesn’t match the Stone, but its still a really good brew!

Aroma is very hoppy, with scents of fresh hops coming right of the bottle upon opening. Color is a deep ruby amber with good carbonation and a thick, tight, tan head. Taste is bold, piney and roasted. Starting with a full body it goes down with a some what sharp feel that leads you to think it is going to be rich. Finish burst out of this with a citrus hop flavor that has a bold pine flavor coming out. All of this turns to a full bitterness then somehow morphs into a roasted malt flavor that leaves you with an almost coffee like taste. I feel this may be the most complexly flavored beer they have done. It seems to change flavors as you drink it and is bold and rich yet easy to drink. The more I drink the more I like it. This is just an amazing beer.

nice fruit cocktail in hop brew. sweetish with a bit of rusty oil can in there the beer is zesty and bright though still aged well and refined. hops come through well enough with a pine cone and flower character that i am fond of. quirky? yes! and good.

Dark pour, nice head and lots of lacing. Aroma of malt balls and dark fruit leapt from the bottle, before the pour, from a foot away. The flavor was rich and complex. Chocolate, coffee, raisins, molasses all present to give this beer the richness of a fine dessert. A little heavy on the raisin/fig, which I’m not overly fond of. Enjoyable, nonetheless.

Bottle. Black colour wit large creamy light brown fully lasting head. Aroma is roasted malt and caramel. Sweet bitter flavor and bitter finish. Oily palate.

They weren’t kidding about massive maltiness. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Malt dominates the aroma with some dark fruit, I didn’t sense as much hops, but it is an older bottle. Malty throughout and it was a little creamy as well. Decent brew, almost a little too sweet for me.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle, bottled in 2007, a blurb along the right side of label, sampled just above cellar temperature in a tulip glass. A nice looking dark brown Belgian ale appearance, a large creamy, tiny bubbly topped beige head, good retention, slowly dissipates into a thin sudsy lacing, small amount of laced sticking. A good smelling dark ale, flowery and minty herbal hops, citric fruitiness, earthy and spicy, sweet dark lightly roasted malts. The carbonation helps provide for a creamy smooth medium body, roasted dark malts, cocoa and coffee, spicy alcohol, warms the palate, the alcohol and the malts mesh together towards the end, spicy dark bread, coffee nutty, dark molasses, dates and raisins, dry leafy, herbal hops that progress to a citric, tangerine rind bitterness, peppery, hop oily, and a dry hoppy, coffee bitter finish. This is an easy sipper that take restraint from quaffing, tasty and balanced, just well done. This is easily now my favorite anniversary ale from Avery, I can’t wait for the fifteenth.

pours almost black with a large tan head. Aroma is huge on malt, caramel, with some definite sweetness, perhaps dark fruit. Flavor is very good- malts and alcohol dominate, with some notes of caramel, bitter chocolate, and cane sugar. Mouthfeel is a little light which detracts a bit from its overall score, but still a fine ASA.