Avery Anniversary Thirteen

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

UPDATED: JUN 17, 2007 Massive, massive, massive. Very good. Heavy notes of fruit which progresed through aging. Avery never ceases to impress.

The aroma has chocolate, toffee, dark fruit, caramel, toasted malt, and light hops. The appearance is dark red brown with a two finger head. The flavor is like the aroma but with a lot more hop bitterness than expected not to mention lots of alcohol and a metallic element. The palate is smooth. I was pretty disappointed by the flavor of this beer. The aftertaste is absolutely repulsive.

this was a really cool beer. a very dark malty weiss beer. Had a solid rich flavor. A little too much alcohol in the taste.

bottle. brown color. roasted sweet wheat aroma and taste. the roast is surprising. quite alcohollic. ok for a wheat.

Dark cola color, fizzy light tan head Aroma is odd, but has brown sugared cherry pie. Slightly smokey malt in a light wheaty fruit body, cherries, brown sugar. Okay beer; a little forced.

Poured dark ruby/mahogany with a small fizzy light tan head. Strong aroma of raisins, brown sugar, caramel, european hops, and a bit of molasses. Flavor is strong and good, with notes of smokey molasses and dark fruits and a dry grassy bitterness. Finish is sort of off-putting, being a tad salty, ashen, and metallic. Alcohol is present but not overly so, adding a mild burn to the flavor and a warming sensation to the swallow. A nice weizen-doppelbock that could be even better without the metallic finish.

Woof. Full aroma, begins with an aroma of clove mingled in caramel, not much fruit, including banana, to speak of. Rather dark, with a surprsingly medium head. Sitting in the glass under normal illumination, it almost looks like a porter. Held to the light, you can tell its not so dark, but a deep garnet color. A bit too crystal clear however! Flavor up front is dominantly sweet, with a heavy melanoidiny munich malt palate, and then whoa - where’s the carbonation?! Hardly any, and instead there’s this massive sea of sticky sweet malt and only the slightly spicy note of weizen to provide any sort of contrast. A note of raisiny fruitiness comes to the fore at some point. I started this off somewhat cold, as cold as I’d drink a good doppelbock or weizen, but it didn’t seem to work. As I let it warm (I certainly wasn’t motivated to drain this very fast), it just got worse - the heavy malt sweetness became cloying, and a heavy alcohol burn became apparent. Any way you slice it, its an unbalanced, undercarbonated mess.

Pours a very dark brown with a light tan head. A dark chocolately aroma with caramel in there as well, some roastiness. Nice sweetness. Don’t notice the alcohol much, but does warm.