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Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

Avery The Beast Grand Cru Ale

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A Belgian Strong Ale brewed by
Avery Brewing Company

Boulder, Colorado USA

bottled
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6593.67/5.03.67/5.0Winter16.42%82.2 Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
The Beast is a seducer - accomodating, complicated, powerful, dark and created to last the ages. Beyond this, it's futile to attempt to describe Him. He will unveil Himself differently to each of His followers. The mark is in His constitution. Brewed with two-row malted barley, honey malt, and imported Belgian specialty grains (aromatic, pale wheat, roasted wheat, and Special B), hops (Magnum, Galena, Saaz, Hallertau, Tettnang, and Hersbrucker), brewing sugars (raisins, dates, blackstrap molasses, alfalfa honey, turbinado, and dark Belgian candy sugar), water, Belgian yeast and another hellion of a yeast strain.OG: 1.138
Batch 1 (2004): 15.7% ABV
Batch 2 (2004): 18.1% ABV
Batch 3 (2005): 14.9% ABV
Batch 4 (2006): 14.6% ABV
Batch 5 (2007): 16.42% ABV
Batch 6 (2008): 16.31% ABV

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 chicagodri (467), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20

May 24, 2008  
This just happened to be the next beer in line in my fridge...probably not the best one to have to end the night. Pours a cloudy brown. Amazing aroma of a dark sour fruits. Incredibly sweet and almost like a syrup. Just too sweet though, like drinking sugar.

 tomthompson89 (1100), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Wow i liked that one. 2006 version. kinda a deep brown color, nice foam, dried fruits, alcohol and cough medicine nose. pretty sweet flavor at first with again dried fruits berries and almost like Vanilla extract flavor but then the alcohol kicks in when it warms, really nice really nice


 mjg74 (1763), La Mesa, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/514/20
Aug 15, 2008  
Bottle (batch 6, 2008) from BevMo, La Mesa. Deep amber in color. Huge dark fruit aroma. Some figs and alcohol with some spices. Strong flavors of raisin and toboacco. Some prune as well. A little hop bitterness. Quite the sipper. Light alcohol tastes, especially considering the strength.


 BeerGestapo (297), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/516/20
Aug 11, 2008  
(USA) Bottled in 2007, Pours a dark amber color with a small dissipating white head. There is a strong molasses aroma with caramel and raisins. The taste is of roasted malts, sweet honey, hops, dark fruit, and of course alcohol. The 16.42 % might put you down for the count if you drink this strong ale to fast.....lol.


 douglas88 (708), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/513/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Bottle thanks to a trade some time back. 2006 vintage. Pours a very nice dark amber body with a thick light beige head. The aroma is very sweet; tons of caramel, molasses, malts, candied plums, and a ton of brown sugar. The taste is also quite sweet, marmalade, brown sugar, cotton candy, plum and raisins, toasted malt, a touch of hops come through. Quite a lot of flavor. The sugars really stick out. Too sweet for me, but nice. Not really that hot, but the alcohol shows.


 Hophead22 (134), Redlands, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/517/20
Aug 10, 2008  
12oz-batch 6. Beautiful dark amber color, small white head. Malt bomb, raisiny as well, lots of sugar. Big warming alcohol, kind of like a fruty liqour going down and coating the back of your throat, wow. This is the kind of stuff you look for, pretty damn good.




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