Avery Samaels Oak-Aged Ale

	Percentile
	91
	overall

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

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
Find this beer

send corrections | shelftag

Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
630	3.58/5.0	3.57/5.0	Special	15.53%	59.5	Snifter

Commercial Description:
Samael is the prince of demons, the angel of death, accuser and destroyer. Filled with enmity towards man, he planted the vine, the forbidden tree of paradise. Behold his venom and vengeance, both sweet and tempting, enticing you, his spellbound victim, within his wings.

Samael’s Ale is a super-caramelly, oak aged English-style strong ale. Perhaps the least hoppy (sacrilege here at Avery!!) beer we’ve brewed, to accentuate the malt. The oak is very apparent in this rich and high gravity ale, adding additional depth and complexity with a woody and cask-like nose and a pronounced vanilla flavor on the palate. This potent ale is the second installment, along with The Beast, of our “Demons of Ale Series”.

Brewed with Rocky Mountain water, malted barley, turbinado sugar, hops, yeast, and American oak chips.

Please Enable Javascript

This site requires javascript enabled and/or approval of googlesyndication.com.

Most Recent

Top Raters

Highest Ratings

Who's Rated This?

Ungstrup (15041), Frederiksberg, Denmark

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	6/10	4/5	9/10	5/5	17/20

Apr 24, 2006

An amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is sweet with very strong notes of caramel, but also lesser notes of alcohol and cardemmome. The flavor is very sweet with a good hop presence as well as strong notes of both cardemmome and cinnamon, leading to a dry spiced and alcohol end. The mouthfeel is thick like drinking syrup. Thanks to Papsø for sharing this gem - sure hope it arrives in Denmark soon.

Papsoe (14841), Frederiksberg, Denmark

3.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.6	9/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

May 6, 2006

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a clear, dark amber with a creamy, yellowish beige head. Very vinous aroma with distinct oak. Extremely full-bodied, extremely sweet - almost achingly sugary. Lots of fruit - apricot. Very complex, but simply way to sweet and sticky to score a higher rating from me. 220406

omhper (12172), Stockholm, Sweden

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	10/10	4/5	7/10	2/5	16/20

Sep 24, 2005

Bottled. Clear reddish amber. Rich port-like oak character. Sweet, thick, vinous and extremely malty. Despite exessive sweetness and syrupy mouthfeel I thoroughly enjoy the rich port character. Nowhere near balanced, but the flavours are impossible to resist. By far the best new Avery beer I’ve had in years.

yespr (11906), Copenhagen O, Denmark

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Feb 12, 2008

12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy amber with a little off-white to tan head. Dried fruity berry aroma, light wineous, light vanilla. Flavour is dried and cellared wineous with a very solid berry fruity note. Dried fruity with a hint of wood and vanilla. Solid wineous and woody finish. Ends vanilla smooth woody.

fonefan (11003), VestJylland, Denmark

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	8/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	16/20

Jul 8, 2007

Bottle. Unclear amber red color with a small frothy fair lacing mostly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, alcoholic, perfume, oak, vanilla, sugar ? Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet balance with a moderate to heavy alcohol finsh that ends in sweetness, with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

MiP (9025), Sønderborg, Denmark

4.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.2	8/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	19/20

Feb 29, 2008

Bottle, 14.5%. Fat vanilla aroma, cigarbox all the way up to fat coconut. Cloudy red copper colour. Very small white head. Distinct coconut flavour, very sweet, malty and sugary. Alcohol nose burn. Very thick mouthfeel, syrupy.

oh6gdx (8840), Vasa, Finland

4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4	7/10	4/5	9/10	4/5	16/20

Oct 3, 2005

Bottled. Copper coloured, beige small head. Alcohol, glue and fruit in aroma. Sweet caramellish sugary flavour with hints of alcohol and toffee. Alcohol mostly in the "hot" finish. Also plums, raisins in flavour. Very complex and lovely flavour.

joergen (8464), Frederiksberg, Denmark

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Apr 23, 2006

Bottle, Thanks to Papsø for sharing. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Very sweet aroma of malts, caramel and dried fruits. Very sweet flavour of dried fruits, wood and caramel.

CONSIDER FREE RATEBEER MEMBERSHIP

Join us! RateBeer is made by beer enthusiasts for the craft beer community. Your basic membership is free and allows you to read all beer ratings. Click here to create your account... and give your opinion!

SIGN UP NOW »

View Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63

More Barley Wines By Style
Delafield Old Number 27 Barley Wine Whiskey Barrel 66
Alley Kat Olde Deuteronomy 67
Flossmoor Station Sheol Barleywine 80
Ballast Point Three Sheets Barley Wine 71
SNAB Maelstrøm 76
Szot Strong Ale 12% 75
Walking Man Old Stumblefoot 67
Thomas Hooker Old Marley Barleywine 67
Third Coast Old Ale (Bourbon Barrel Aged) 94
Dark Horse 3 Guy Off the Scale Old Ale 88
Chama River Barley Wine 65
Terminal Gravity Bucolic Plague Barleywine 69
Midnight Sun Big Slick 68
Dieu du Ciel Solstice d’hiver 81
J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (Lagavulin) 82

this page requires javascript