Avery Anniversary Thirteen

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

(22 oz. bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/massachusetts/w target=blank>Julio’s Liquors) Pours dark crimson-ish brown, hard to tell if it’s cloudy or not because it’s quite dark. Surprisingly very little head, even when poured into a weizen glass. Aroma is booze and brown sugar. Mouthfeel is kind of thick and syrupy, maybe a little flat. A few traces of lacing. Flavor is about what I expected from aroma - big boozy sticky sweetness. Lots of alcohol taste with a very brown sugary malt sweetness. Gets a little chocolatey in finish as it warms. A little more bitter than a typical weizen bock. Alot of good weizen bocks are boozy and sweet but this one doesn’t offer much more than that. Could use a little more refinement and complexity, along with more wheat presence. Still a pretty good beer but a definite booze-hound. This bottle may have been past its prime.

Clear garnet with an extremely thin, tan head. The aroma is sweet and fruity, with plums, raisins, chocolate, caramel, banana bread, toasted grains, clove, licorice, maple syrup and some fairly mild bubblegum and tropical fruit esters. The body is full and round with some prickly carbonation and chewy depth. The flavor is mostly sweet, a little spicy and contains a bit of bitterness near the end. The alcohol really dries out the beer and leaves the tongue parched at the finish. For my tastes, an average example of the style. Too bad, I was looking forward to this...

Found some old notes. (7/14/07). Bottle. Poured a deep brown with a brown head. Nose is very malty with some caramel. Flavors of malt, dried fruit, and caramel. Pretty good.

Dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, wheat, raisons, dark fruits and alcohol. Flavors of dark fruits, wheat, rye, and maple syrup.

Almost black with minimal white head, this stuff has a malty bananna aroma. Taste is an odd bitter malt with a hint of raisin, and alcohol burn going down. Too thin and astringent. $7/22oz

Deep, dark brown pour but surprising clear. Very thin head with decent lacing. Nose of toffee, coffee, caramel and prunes. Great flavors of roasted coffee, chocolate, toffee and some dark fruits. Full mouth feel with nice finish and aftertaste.

[Bottle from Beermouth tasted with the hop-bros at Jess’ cosy inn.] Very dark malted and sweety germanlike wiessbucker, but where is the wheat? Not what I had expected.

pours dark but when you hold it up to the light it has a red tint to it.Definately full of flavor.Lots of roasted malts and grain like.Had some sweetness to it and the alcohol was hidden well.Very good stuff