Avery Hog Heaven

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

a very reasonable priced easy drinking BW- Fresh or aged. A bit thin at 9.2% ABV but that makes it very approachable. Pours a mahogany amber red with and off white head. A nice hops front with a sweet malty backbone to carry the beer. This is a regular in my fridge.

Hazy - deep amber or brown. Decent head for barley-wine. Great hop aroma with a touch of pine - mixed with plants and flowers. The taste hits hard with a good dose of thick malt - a bit of dark grass. The finish is very bitter and only slightly outweighs the malt. Finally, at the very end of the finish you can tell a bit of alcohol.

Pours a dense, ruby red with a quickly forming beige head. Aroma is sweet caramel, dark dried fruits, apricot, and tea. Taste is a blast of candy sweetness with a slight bitterness underneath. Very powerful flavor. Palate is thick, viscous, not exactly chewy, but syrupy and smooth. Went really well with some pulled pork barbeque. I did find it dangerously drinkable, as I drank the whole damn bottle. Definitely provided my barleywine fix. Reasonably priced as well, so I will no doubt be revisiting this one at some point. Good stuff.

bomber from holiday wine cellar. Into pint. Smells of a whole bunch of floral hops. Looks thick amber apricot. Off white thick head. Tastes at firat pretty thin then increases to a thick double ipa style barley wine. Not a oerfect style barley wine but i like the extra up front hop profile. Overall 9 of 10.

Pours a lovely cloudy apricot/copper color, sparse head. Bright, fruity, hoppy aroma lots of pine.. full-bodied, creamy mouthfeel, well-balanced w/ complementary bitter & sweet attacks, certainly leans hoppy, sugary sweet finish lingers.. good, too hop-centric for my tastes, but I respect it..

Creamy head mild carbonation murky amber brown pour aromas pine caramel citrus earthyness port sweet sugar honey flavours grapefruit pine strong bitter resiny earthyness caramel tawny port peach apricot aftertastes sharp bitter lasting piney hops citrus alcohol sweet malts fair body earthy goodness very likeable

Bottle cellared for a couple years - Rosy light brown with a small light tan head. Lots of buttery toffee on the nose, with a bit of grassy hops still present. Decadent. Taste is more hoppy, with grassy hops up front overlaid on the butter toffee and caramel and a roasty, oaky finish. The touch of hops stops it from being one-note, but it’s still sweet. Medium body with nice warming heat. Pretty good!

Bottle shared by Andreasen11, thanks buddie! :) Pours dark amber with a off white head. The aroma is dominated by bitter hops and caramel, with notes of pine and peach. Flavour is also bitter hoppy, with notes of caramel, pine, alcohol and peach.