Avery Samaels Oak-Aged Ale

12oz bottle bottled in 2005 purchased from Countryside Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark brown cola color with a one finger white head that settles slowly and laces the glass. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of honey, caramel, brandy, malt, phenol, wood, smoke, and hints of chocolate. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of brandy, malt, chocolate, oak, wood, smoke, vanilla, raisins, sweet dark ripe fruit, some hints of honey and caramel. Generally a medium to full body with a sweet and alcoholic finish. This beer has aged well.

Batch #4. Aroma is slightly nutty. Pours caramel brown with a nice 1cm of white head. Flavor is sweet, with some slight tannins, and not much else. I can see why this is the weakest in the Demon series. Not much going on here but fire from the alcohol, sweetness from the sugar and a little tannic flavor.

Bottled in April 2007, Batch 3 Poured into the new Sam Adams Lager glass A- Pours a clear bright orange hue with amber highlights, head is a very thin layer of white condensed bubble that dissipates to a mere ring, minimal lacing S- Amazing aroma dominated by wonderful oak and vanilla aromas, sweet malts, molasses, brown sugar, dark fruits T- Taste follows suit of the aroma save for a strong overriding alcohol presence, the oak and vanilla comes out first followed by a range of dark fruits that are raisin-heavy, finishes with a sweet dryness M- Full-bodied, thick and chewy texture, lively carbonation D- At almost 15%abv, this is definitely a sipping beer to enjoy over time, i can only imagine how wonderful this would be with a few more years of aging

Batch 2, May 2006. Pours a hazy amber-red color with just a ring of head forming. Big toasted malt aroma, along with fruit, wood, vanilla and lots of alcohol. Sweet fruit and malt flavor, nearly too sweet, with a big alcohol bite. Lingering sweetness on the finish as well, though the alcohol fades and peaches and apples really come through. Not a bad brew, but a bit too sweet for my tastes.

Bottle batch 2. Hazy reddish body, with almost no head. Aroma is oak, caramel, alcohol. Flavor is oak, port, notes of dark fruit, spices. A nice beer, but not my favourite in the demons series.

Very clear deep amber and ruby coloured body with no head at all. Aroma of strong oak, vanilla, malt, caramel and brandy are very potent in the nose. Super full-bodied; Strong as hell flavour of sweet sugars, pit fruit and bananas along with a very potent malty taste along with some spices too. Aftertaste lasts long and hard - very sweet...almost too potent and chewy. Overall, a good beer for someone that wants a TREMENDOUS amount of flavour and a significantly sweet beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 28-October-2006.

Huh. First smell is of rotten raspberries..smelled it again and it smelled of apples and oak. Weird. Red/copper pour with hardly any head. Over alcoholed apple and peachy flavor with woody oaky tones.Syrupy cloying sweetness that still tastes like rotted fruit.

Bottle. Brandy color with one little clump of bubbles paddling around the middle of the glass. Aromas are heavy with apples and rotten junk. Taste is pure alcoholic trash... toffee and barrel and booze and...