4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dark brown with a huge long lasting tan head and heavy lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, toffee and hops. Flavor of roasted malts and hops. Finish is long, bitter and roasty.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark ruby color with thin tan head. Aroma is of brown sugar and a hint of hops and alcohol. Bitter pithy citrus rhind taste with sweet malt that keeps up with it. Too much of both for my liking, though. Better luck next year, Avery $7/22oz
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tasted 07-17-08
Pours amber-mahogany with a thick tan head.
Aroma is strong chocolate malt, molasses/toffee sweetness. Raisin tones.
Underlying herbal hoppy presence.
Flavour is dominated by alc bitter-sweet.
molasses maltiness, twisting chocolate, smoke and dark fruit . Lingering medicinal bitterness in the finish.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dark and cloudy brownish color with thick initial head that turns into a thinner tan head. Belgian nose with orange cream and sweet malt...very nice. Creamy full bodied mouth feel. Spicy sweet malts...and a bit of an alcohol kick up front. Molasses, spicy herbs, medium dark fruits...and plenty of hops...more on the finish than anywhere else. Peppery finish as well. Very tasty.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cola colored, tan head, clear, fair lacing. i get the aroma of raisins (maybe the described molasses?) and belgian yeast...oh and alcohol too. flavor is light alcohol, mild hoppiness (spicy?). This is a weird beer. I drank half of it before rating it and could not peg the style at all. This one is all over the place, at least to my palate.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bomber.
What a bizarre beer! Pours like cola but darker, red highlights, reddish-tan head. The aroma is apples and grapefruit hops, some yeasty spice as in a dubbel. Nothing in the aroma prepared me for the overbearing sweetness refined-sugar sweetness on the front end of the flavor, and though the powerfully hoppy finish was foreshadowed a bit more, it too comes on harder than expected. Add a third pinch of alcohol burn, and you’ve pretty much got the dominant attack from the flavors. A strange style, and perhaps one that is not often brewed for good reason. But there’s a lot of complexity under that, and these are both enticing and interesting. Ample dates, some interesting spices, syrupy mouthfeel.
I can’t say that this one is a favorite, but I have to give Avery credit for trying something interesting with their fourteenth anniversary brew. That’s what one should do, after all, with a special edition beer.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
The 1st Avery I had that I didn’t enjoy.Pours a dark cola color with a nice pillowy head.Malty aroma with a small flavor of hops and other things I just couldn’t figure out.It was drinkable till it warmed then it hit the gag reflex.I will definately try it again because I know this can’t be right.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Glassy, burgundy and mahogany shades. Head retention couldn’t be more perfect. A young barleywine nose of licorice, red pepper, molasses, candied dark fruits, and whiskey. Floral hops hint with a soft kiss at the start and finish. Top heavy and crushingly sweet flavor. Raspberries and blackberries in a rye whiskey mash. Woodsy with a smoke and vanilla bean rum taste. A dark shade of peat begins to temper the dense sweetness toward the end. Dry, earthy bitterness at the very finish. Burns on the smack a bit, and alcohol generally dominates the palate. Full and reasonably smooth in spite of this. Difficult to drink – a bomber could happily be split six or seven ways.
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