Avery Hog Heaven

Poured a cloudycopper color with good head that stayed forever. Nice hoppy aroma with hint of citrus, grapefruit. Taste is hoppy and citrusy with a malty finish. Pretty well balanced. Tastes very much like an English IPA, but stronger. I wish I had some more of this that I could let age, but I live in Mississippi so unavailable here. Lacing was decent. Good, but to me, not great. Still, I enjoyed.

Bottle as shown. Pours a murky copper color with a small off white head that dimishes quickly. The aroma is a strong hops with grapefruit.Decent lacing on this one. The taste is a bitter grass with a sweet light malt finish. An excellent barley wine from Avery.

Holy hops!!!! Bitter hop taste, slight grassy notes. hides alcohol fairly well. Would be a great mix with Samaels Oak-Aged Ale, which could use the hopped flavor.

Bottle Pours a clear redish amber with a very large light yellowish creamy head. The sweet brown sugary fruity malt aroma is complimented by some hops. Flavor is plenty bitter and the woody semi sweet malts hang around as well. Ahh 100IBUs...that would explain it. Slight grassy biterness, possilby would benefit from sitting a while. Fairly hot. Long slow bitter trailer. I woul dlike to try a 2 year old bottle.

Deep copp in color with a generous head. Extreme hoppiness with fruity and floral overtones that lead to the same in the taste. Some alcohol warmth.

Amber-red pour, fairly transparent with solid head retention. Burnt fruit and candy nose. Hints of nougat, toffee, pears, gingerbread and orange. Tired, lightly charred taste like a scotch-dipped cigar at the end of its life. Crystal and dry hops with wet graham crackers. Caramel, a hint of red pepper, and molasses precede an unpleasantly dry paper finish. Bitterness powers through with a clumsy strength. It succeeds on some level with a reasonable degree of smoothness. The heat on the palate is undeniable, alongside a marginal under-attenuated grit. Distant salt and fund-raiser chocolate in a dirty pulse. The unique quality of this brewer is its broad capacity to achieve utter banality, almost every time. Certainly bold, it’s just poorly done.

Ummm this is good. This is just the type of Barleywine I like but it’s not traditional at all. It teeters pretty close to being a double IPA--very hoppy, in the nose and in the flavor. So why don’t I just buy IIPAs? Because even Barleywines like this have are way sweeter and smoother with all of that malt. Nice warming alchohol too.

12oz bottle-Had this a while ago but if my memory serves me it was a medium to dark amber body with a small head and an aroma of hops and a little malt. the taste was way hoppy and not enough malt which I think of when it comes to barleywine style. It seems to not fit the style.