Avery Anniversary Fourteen

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Pours a deep brown with very little head that is gone quickly. Notes of dark fruit and floral hops in the aroma and taste with some caramel. mouthfeel is medium. Decent.

(Bottle) Pours a dark reddish brown colour with a creamy off white head. The aroma is a strange mix of grapefruit/herbal/resin like hops, spices like white pepper and cinnamon, fruity with canned pineapples and dried bananas, dark fruits like plums and raisins, some tart berries and malty tones of caramel, chocolate and nuts. Hints of celery, nettles and cucumber. The flavour is spicy, fruity, hoppy and malty. Chocolaty, caramelly some grapefruit and oranges, bananas and cinnamon. The mouthfeel is smooth, creamy, soft and a bit numbing from the hops. Medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Medium to full bodied. Very malty with a little bit of everything, strange.

22 oz bottle pours mahogany with a dense soapy head. Aroma is fruity. Oak, cherry chocolate, brown sugar. Chocolate brown sugar flavors with tar, licorice, and alcohol. Sweet and really tasty at first. But then it just becomes too sweet and too much alcohol. Slight bitterness in the end. Bah, its too much.

UPDATED: JUL 30, 2007 strong ale...Well, I put this more in the impy stout catagory. a strange beer., black in appearence, tannish head, with some serious alcohol warmth. Tastes very chocalately, with some grapes, cherries.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus, courtesy of an ohio dad trade. Pours a Dark Amber with a fruit/molasses aroma and tin. Alcohol and fruit flavor. It was good but I was slightly dissapointed.

Dark brown pour, ruby edges, and creamy tan head. Smells of sweet malt and hops . There are also hints of belgium yeast. Carmel and chocolate flavors come to the front in the flavor. Well balanced. Nice on the palate, slight warm bitter finish with slowly building heat. This would be enjoyable on a cold winter.

Pours a dark red with a tan head. Aroma is full of hops and a hint of sweetness. Hop flavor with hints of dark fruits. Pretty well balanced. I would try again.

650 mL bottle. Dark brown with a big fluffy off-white head. Aroma of dark fruits. Furry slightly bright palate. Sweet molasses taste transitioning to a figgy sweetness with a slightly bitter and alcoholic finish.