Avery The Reverend

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass

Bottle. Pours a clear ruby body with a small white head. Strange for a quad but still nice. In the aroma, something’s fishy right off the bat: strong tones of canned mackerel in tomato sauce (a popular bread spread in Norway which I also happen to dislike) comes forth and makes me exclaim an irreverent "what the HELL??", which probably would have made the venerated reverend slightly dismayed. But I can’t help it. This is bad. Only faint hints of malts and candy sugars linger in the back. I keep thinking positive: "it’s probably nullified by a grandiose taste once I get past the mackerel". I am wrong. This beer also TASTES tomato-sauced mackerel, accompanied by sweet syrupy notes which makes it even more sickening. Jesus Christ. This MUST be a bad bottle; I refuse to believe that even a big beer from Avery could have pulled off such a spectacular feat of "the emperor’s new clothes"... A fishy business indeed, will re-rate when I get the chance. BTW: bottle is from an unknown outlet of Swedish state-owned alcohol monopoly chain Systembolaget. Be warned.

drank at mondial 2011 in mtl. pours dark brown, red tint, with a nice beige head, ok-retention and lacing. aroma is light bananas and spices, fresh hops. medium hopping - coney (little disturbing) - medium herbal finish. average belgium carbonation, light to medium body.

Bottle 75 cl, SB. Pours clear copper with a small tanned head leavng some lacing. Aroma is fruity, brown sugar, malty, hoppy and fruity. Flavor is much like the aroma with nice spicyness. Finishes sweet and bitter tart. Very drinkable and tastefull, well balanced.

Caramel maltyness with hints of honey and butter. Typical red brown color with a small head. Good taste with typcial quadrupel flavours.

pretty good as far as beers go, but not too great for a quad, especially for the price! try something else.

22oz bottle in a Trappist glass. Pours deep ruby/amber with a lacy, light beige head. Aroma of spicy yeast, sugar, some light notes of dark fruits, caramel, and floral hops. The alcohol is covered up really well. A sweet beer. Average texture. A good quad for an American brewer.

On tap at Avery and a bottle today. A strange brew. I taste the belgian yeast and so many other things. A bit sweet. A little tangy...like slightly soured fruit. Really minerally. Almost metallic or rusty. Not what I expected. Nice body. Just too sweet...thats my biggest complaint.

Draft at WOB. Served hazy orange with a small orange-cream head. Very sweet aroma with hop and caramel hints and heavy bits of yeast and alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet with much the same with full fruits and spices. Light on the bitterness reminded me more of Barleywine than a Quad, but came strong with a sherry-like alcohol kick.