Avery Anniversary Thirteen

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

Bomber. Pours a dark brown with some reddish highlights and a thin tan head. Aromas are a splendid mix of dark fruit and brown sugar. Flavor is more of the same... heavily sweet with a nice prune finish to it. This is really much better than I expected... don’t know if the flavor has blossomed with age or what, but this is plenty good stuff. Alcohol is not hiding from anyone. Wish I had another bottle.

bottle. Pours a very dark brown with ruby highlights. Carbonation good for the style. Aroma is of chocolate, banana, dark fruit and malts, slight alcohol. It tastes of dark fruits and malts up front. Also has a taste of dark wheat, with a dark fruit, buttery, and lightly tart finish.

A beautiful pour, clear dark garnet body topped by a dense creamy tan head. Tha aroma is sweet and esthery banana and raisins. They suceeded it seems in welding a wheat aroma with a dopplebock. The flavor is marred by a huge wallop of alcohol. Some sweetness backs this up but things do not come together very well unforunately. The body is dry and very prockly with the alcohol playing a prominent role in things. In the end it is mildly amusing but not special in any way.

Pours dark brown with ruby hues and fully receding tan head. Aroma of caramelized wort: plum, cloves, and spicy phenols. Taste is caramel, toffee, bubble gum, and clove. Mouthfeel is medium to heavy bodied with slightly sticky with soft carbonation. Not as pretty, a bit more syrupy, and less refreshing than the German examples, but still an enjoyable beer.

Nice dark amber color,small tan head that had a good hang time then faded to leave a little behind.The aroma was malty with a nice roasty side some dried fruit maybe and a bit of chocolate possibly.The flavor was very nice with a nice roasty malty taste mildly sweet in the beginning with a good mild fruit and caramel taste coming on as well as a nice roasty side in the middle.The alcohol manages to stay pretty well hidden with just a hint in the tail end.Very nicely done brew and well worth having a few more which i’m glad i do.

22oz bottle: Poured dark brown with a full tan head. Aroma of overripe bananas and cookie dough. Flavor is just as the name would suggest: weizen flavors (banana, yeast) mixed with lingering doppelbock qualities (meaty, light soy sauce, light roasted malt). Pretty full body. Rich. Good beer.

22 oz bottle at a Nertz party. One of the favorites of the night. Sweet aromas with hints of banana. Dark fruit flavors with some spice and more banana. Very very good

"If it’s got a goat, it’s gotta be good."

Well-bedecked bottle pours a deep ruby/mahogany with a short, tan head that settles quickly into a thin film and halo. Aroma finds a luscious blend of malts and yeasts sharpened with a whipcrack of alcohol. Caramel, apple, banana, whisky, maple, sweet cherries, Juicy Fruit gum.... damn, there’s alot going on! A smooth, wheaty palate is fluffed up by a healthy hit of carbonation as a precursor to carressing the throat as a warm, silky syrup (all the while leaving a dry astringence in the mouth!) Yeasts dominate the flavor with Weisse-like fruitiness. Sweetness from the malts is tempered by soft hop-bitterness and alcohol (again) which now seems a little too forward. Sadly, the linger hangs with a sour fruitiness and a hint of pungency, rather like a children’s chewable vitamin. Despite its few downfalls, this was six dollars well-spent and I’ll be heading back out to Frankfort because this goat should age quite nicely.

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