Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

22oz bottle. Aroma: Bready maltiness, molasses, chocolate, anise, and a healthy dose of spice. Some light dark fruits, and a bit of spice/earth hops. Appearance: Dark brown in color with small ruby highlights. Medium beige head was huge and foamy with great retention. Great lacing. Flavor: Roasty maltiness with notes of coffee, chocolate, and toasted nuts. Molasses, caramel, and raisins. Lots of yeast spiciness and belgian yeast. Hops come in fairly strong with notes of citrus, grass, and earth. Medium-high bitterness was a little harsh. Some roast and hops carry over past the finish. Palate: Full bodied. Medium carbonation. Light alcohol warming in back of mouth. Overall: This was good, but seemed a little disjointed. The malts and hops seemed to be working against each other rather than with each other. Still, pretty tasty.

dark brown with large tan head. flavor initially of some possible chocolate malt and fig sweetness, a lot of hop bitterness and some yeasty funk. a lot of flavors and they dont necessarily mesh perfectly, but flavorful and solid overall

[614-20070914] 1pt6floz (w/ blankboy, jerc, tupalev). Apple peel booze and dark malt aroma has "dark fig fruit" characteristics. Dark brown red body with a medium-lasting creamy light tan head. Roasted malt and boozy toast flavour is a little sweet. Full body. Nice full beer.

Nice American strong. A little too sweet for my tastes, but not bad. Seems this style is over hoppy and hot, or extremely sweet and this falls under the latter. Aroma of roasted malt and caramel. Pour was near perfect. An inviting dark brown with a beautiful 3 finger light tan head. Taste was sweet-molasses and roastiness in the front...sugary and malt notes. NIce semi dry finish with just a tad of hops that peek out. Nice complex brew...a little less sweet and could’ve been close to a 4 with me. Hides the alcohol well.

slightly above avg, tan, fizzy (almost creamy) head into dark, dark brown body. nice lacing. aromas of spicy floral bouquet, light smoke, nuts, molasses, flavor is bitter-sweet with bitter long finish-slightly too bitter. medium bodied. dry textured. alcohol is well hidden. very unique stuff. solid.

Sampled at DØE Beerfestival 2009, Valby. Pours adark brown beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is hoppy, and the flavor is hops (citrus), and sweetness. The palate leaves sweetness. Overall a good but strong beer.

Bomber. Poured a stout-like dark brown with a large bumpy tan head. Aroma initally like red licorice or "good-n-plenty" which slowly developed into molasses, dark fruit (plum, prune, cherry), earth and piney hops. Flavor of dark roast coffee and molasses malts, with some dried black cherry, prune, raisin, wood, cocoa butter, earth and resin hops. Granted, an unseasonable choice for the hot weather--I’d be loving this way more in the winter. Complex and definitely quirky.

Bottle at Helene’s. Dark brown (almost black) - offwhite head. Sharpness, bured, roasted, berries, dark bread, ryebread, sharp hoppy, licorice, caramel. Light alcho-burn.