Avery Salvation

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Poured a medium orange color with an avearaged sized white head. Aromas of yeast, apples, and some spices. Spicey apple tastes. Sweet start with a light bitter finish. Very light alcohol in the taste. Not bad I liked this beer.

The 22 ounce bottle poured a crystal clear, perfectly amber beverage with an ample white creamy head that was mostly lasting and left great lacing on the glass. The aroma was lightly sweet, fruity and spicy with notes of Belgian candy sugar, peach, orange peel and coriander all making their contributions to an overall beautiful bouquet. The body was medium-full with lively carbonation and a smooth, creamy mouthfeel. The flavor starts out lightly sweet but is gradually replaced by a spicy, sourness at the finish. There is just a bit of alcohol warmth at the finish as well.

Bottle. Pours a golden color, frothy white head, transparent with lots of rising tiny bubbles, not much lacing. Aroma is fairly tame, yeasty, spicy, fruity, I definitely smell peaches, nutmeg, and some other phenolics. Flavor is dominated by a light fruitiness, apricots and peaches definetly dominate, a hint of a belgian yeast, a touch of spiciness as it finishes. Fairly light body, appropriate for a golden ale like this, some bubbly carbonation, soft in the mouth. All in all, a fine beer, I really enjoyed how the fruity flavors played off of the yeast while remaining delicate in the mouth.

2003 bottle. Thin off white head on clear amber with a few translucent flakes floating. Fruity candi sugar and green raisen aroma with some whiskey. Smooth and still on the palate. A complex fruit basket flavor with fig, yellow plum and dried apricot. Interesting, tart, almost tannic finish that fights with the prior flavors. A really amazing chorus of flavors that doesn’t quite harmonize.

Orange. Very nice aroma of ripe, dripping apricots, citrus fruits, sweet malt and sugars. Sugary as hell in the flavor yet not cloying. Big, bursting fruity flavor with notes of tangerine, apricot, grapefruit and orange. Medium bodied but silky and smooth. A delightful beer.

From bomber. Poured a yellow/orange with minimal white head. Nose was honey and a little fruity. Flavor followed with a bit of yeast presence. No alcohol detectable. Enjoyable.

From a 22 oz. gold foil wrapped capped bomber bottle, blurb along the right side of label, no bottled/freshness date, sampled from the refrigerator in a chalice. Poured a cloudy orange with a foamy white head that settled into a thin, bubbly lacing, small amount of laced sticking. Aromas of peppery spice, nutmeg and sugary alcohol, honey wheat malts, apricot and citrus fruity. Good carbonation and crisp, dry and smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Pleasant tasting with the Avery kink, apricot, peach and orange fruity, a bit sugary, but light in the candiness, honey malts, peppery, earthy hops, a mild rolling bitterness, the alcohol is sweet and warming in the palate, and a dry earthy, peach fruity, sweet malty finish with the alcohol lingering in the palate, good strong pale ale drinkability. I can’t believe I hadn’t try this before, a good Belgian strong pale ale with the Avery twist, worth trying.

22 oz. bottle. Hazy gold with a restrained white head that settles quickly. Some yeast, light fruit, and spice in the aroma with a little toffee thrown in. Bright effervescence accompanies a medium body and astringent mouthfeel. Mild sweetness quickly fades, giving way to an light acidic sourness that ocntributes to a clean finish with the help of some gentle bitterness.