Avery Salvation

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bomba. Quite a fan of this label! Bready golden malt with strong, Duveleqsue yeast and a spicy (nutmeg and orange rind) smack in the face. Honey and Belgian candy sugar. Golden pour with nary a head. Taste is malty and spicy with noticeable but relatively well incorporated alcohol, overripe fruit on the rise but the yeast backs of significantly from expectations. Slightly woody and has a nice earthy, somewhat bitter note lurking. Very soft mouthfeel, teeth just sink right into it, and the body heft is somewhere around a fullish medium. Craftsmanship! Nice, pleasant, satisfying - really hit the spot today - but not world-burning.

UPDATED: JAN 9, 2006 From MIBRomeo. Appearance: caramel color. White, thin head. Very opaque. Aroma: spicy, grainy, raw sweetness. The aroma is way too strong and not that good. Flavor: RAW, barley, grain. Very strong. I simply don’t like this at all. Palate: too over the top. Overall: WTF were they thinking? I don’t like this one at all. 6, 3, 3, 2, 8 = 2.2
Re-rate per JCap. The appearance is a glowing golden body with a thin bright white head. The aroma is peaches, green raisins, and grains and almost comes off as being a heavily Maris Otter brew. The flavor is red apples, green raisins, peaches, and grains, (flaked barley?). The palate is creamy and medium bodied.

Pours gold into a trappist glass. Malt, biscuit and alcohol aromas. Crisp, yet full with tingly sweet alcohol from front to back. Slight lasting pepper finish.

Tap at Barcade: Slight haze to the golden pour and topped by a white ring of head. Spicy nose with some sage and thyme along with other peppery alcohol esters. Body is medium, with a honeyish sweet background overall. Lots of various spices in the flavor with thyme and peppery alcohol, which dominate. A bit simple, but drinkable.

22oz bottle from Bevmo Carmel Mountain. Salvation poured a light sunset orange, head was fizzy, medium in size and off white. Aroma of citrus fruits and yeast. On the pallet it was somewhat sweet, light hop flavor. The finish was nice n’ tingly......lol

I was expecting a good beer, but not this good! Very malty flavor seems very German in nature, though there is a very modest amount of spiciness to slightly trigger that Belgian sensor; Fairly sweet with some honey flavor, only mildly bitter, and the alcohol is hidden quite well; Exceptional, malty aroma is similar to a German doppelbock; Dark golden color is bordering on apricot; Fairly heavy and sticky mouthfeel; Slightly hazy, though that's because the significant sediment remained undisturbed on the bottom of the bottle; Almost no carbonation bubbles rising through the beer, so the off-white head settles to a thin layer fairly quickly

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2008 peach color with small white head. yeast, sugary fruit, candy aroma. yeast, grain, spices in flavor. nice warmth going down. a hint of cinnamon in the finish. i think this one is made quite nicely-2/8/06---re-rate--clear golden with a nice soft light fruit aroma. the flavor is very peachy or apricot with some yeast. light bodied and very drinkable. still an excellent beer.

Shared bottle at RBNAG 11. Deep golden body with almost no head. Body feels oily. Aroma of sweet malt, alcohol, citrus fruit and spices. Flavor is very sweet malt, fruit, spices and a bit vinous. Typical strong Belgium style. Thick body. Sweet aftertaste, some bitterness and warming alcohol.