Avery Samaels Oak-Aged Ale

bottle 12 fl oz (looks like 33cl) from ølbutikken. bottled in may 2006 batch 2. No best before anywhere on the bottle. Thanks for the tip reg. how long to store this beer, avery. NOT. pours a cloudy, hazy red-brown, small yellow head. aroma of yeast, slight vinous notes, slight eggs, slight sourness.alc well hidden in the aroma, but you can tell it’s stong. flavor is very sweet, but in a very very delicious way. this could easily have been a good liqeur, like bols advokaat, just much deeper in the width of flavors. caramel like swetness,that is however better tasting than any kind of caramel i know of. honey, syrup, malts, port wine. well balanced. alc does its work but does not get in the way. ends bitter and burning on the alc. not much hops if any. Overall this beer is strange. perhaps it has been stored for too long. The aroma is bad and weird, but the flavor is fantastic. Perhaps aroma was better one or two years ago for this bottle. A well balanced flavor profile, where the tastes have been blended together to a whole, that is very tasty. the bew sort of reminds me of that anniversary brew that comes in a metal bottle. i noticed a strange thing. after settling in the glass for 10 minutes, the aroma became much better than the initial impression. the cellarmouldy notes were far less prominent and aroma got closer to flavor. you’’ve got to sample the entire bottle, taking some time, to get everything out of this brew. nice.

Bottle, 2007. Pours deep red with a thin beige head. The aroma is vinous and oaky, very sweet. The flavor is far too sweet with some vanilla and dark fruits. Alcohol is there but not overly so given the high ABV. I wasn’t very impressed by this beer.

Aged 3 years. Pours deep amber into a snifter. Head quickly recedes to nothing. Maple aromas. Vanilla and maple from front to back. Sweet caramel and alcohol burn finish.

bottled apr 2008, opened it for christmas. lots of vanilla thanks to the oak aging. rasins, brown sugars, maybe a little toffee, more varying strengths. as it warmed it got a little too woody and whiskey like for me. doesnt make it a bad beer i just get turned off when oak aged brews warm too much and start being all smoke and wood chips. great and complex brew though.

A bottle shared at Pikkulintu (2008 Batch 4). Pale head. Clear amber colour. Oak in the nose. Some floating particles. Sweet oaky syropy taste. Slightly sour. Too alcoholic for me.

(Re-rate - draught at Akkurat Stockholm, batch #4 - on 2009-07-29) Beatiful ruby red colour. Small white head. Swetness, raisin, vanilla and oak in aroma. Burning feeling from alcohol in full bodied palate with low carbonation. Malts, raisin, wood, fruitiness, lightly roastedness, oak, vanilla and bitterness in taste. Oak, sweetness and bitterness in aftertaste. Old rating: (bottled batch #4) 8-4-8-4-3-16=3.9.

Deguster au Mondial de la Biere. Belle couleur oranger. Intense gout de vanille prevenant du chene se transformant graduellement en gout d agrume sucrer! Collet absent. Un delice! Tasted at the Mondial de la biere. Very beautiful orange colour. Strong vanilla taste from oak evolving in a sweet citrus-like taste! Lack of head. Awesome!

Not real impressed with this beer, a big fan of Avery though. Decided to pick up after all the great reviews but didnt get it. Pours with no head and no lacing, smell was kind of musty and sweet. This beer has the consistency of motor oil, thick sweet and the alc is hot and overwhelming.