Avery Samaels Oak-Aged Ale

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

Bottle shared with Häki. Pours a nice very deep orange colour with a fair head. Sweet oaky and fruity pleasant hoppy aroma. The flavour is sweet with oak, toasted malt, alcohol and some bitterness.

2006 batch 2 bottle opened on 9/22/07. nice dark amber color and a nice head on the pour. smelled like candy and malts. it was very thick on the palate like a syrup and sweet like it as well. tad bit too sweet for me actually. i need to go buy the new one asap. btw this is my 100th rating!!!

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange brown with small yellowish head. Aroma is sweet with vanilla, sugar, wood. Flavors are stupid sweet with brown sugar, notes of apricot, brandy, caramel. This is kind of dominated by a candied pinnaple flavor which is a little weird. There is also a hint of spice in with the other stuff, including cinnamon. Palate is thick and sweet like syrup. Finish is sticky and sweet with notes of honey and spice. Man this stuff is a little too much sweetness for me.

12 oz 2005 bottle courtesy of slob. Pours a Dark amber brown with no head and sparse carbonation. No lacing. Big malty nose with noticable hops as secondary aroma. Big wave of sweet malts hits the mouth as well as a good helping of pears whicha are complemented by the light tingling of hops and the subtle entrance of the mellow oak. Yes, this shows what a few years mellowing can do for an oak beer. Can’t wait for the next instalment of demon.

This Barley Wine has a nicd aroma, and taste, but the finish is quite syrup like. My bottle did not pour with much head, which disappeared rapidly. Visually it was cloudy. Overall it’s nice, but since I’ve only had one other BW (at NHC ) it’s hard to tell where it ranks with others.

Not a bad beer but not great. Really high in alcohol. Took awhile to drink but it got better as it got warmer..not bad

really expensive brew, with high alcohol content, and virtually no head, although the more the glass sits, the more the head forms. a little too syrupy and sweet for my tastes. i could barely finish this brew as i don’t see how it ranks in the 87 percentile. i think some reviewers may be slightly influenced by the price of this brew, however, we were not, because we’re ballin on a budget in college park. peece. CPG in tha house.

Bottled in 2005. This Barley wine pours a deep copper color from a 120z bottle. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is caramel, sweet, sherry, oak and sweet. Touch of alcohol as well. Medium to full bodied English style Barley Wine. Malts are very sweet, lots of caramel and oak. Low carbonation. It sort of has a sherry/port kind of feel to it. The caramel and fruits balance some hints of oak and brown sugar flavors. There is a strong alcohol presence, that sort of is straining to be unleashed, but its nowhere near as hot and forward as Avery brews usually are. Yet at 14.5% it is not that strong. The first few sips, and you can’t help but sip this beer, are WAY WAY to sweet, but it seems to lessen as you proceed. Probably just my taste buds getting overwhelmed… This beer is growing on me; I like it more as I sip. The aging potential for this beer is very good. I need to pick up some more to forget about for 5-10 years. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet with a touch of alcohol.