Avery Sui Generis

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

12 oz bottle. This one pours a dark, cloudy reddish brown color and topped by a small, smooth head of tan colored foam that settles down to a thin film. Thick sticky lines of lace cling hard to the glass. The nose is very vinous up front from the influence of the various wine barrels used in the blend. There are notes of sour cherries, tart red grapes, and blackberries that are full of woody oak character. Some caramelized grain soaked in sour mash bourbon pushes through along with notes of dark cocoa, vanilla, and caramel. The flavors are nicely balanced and are equally tart and earthy with plenty of brett mustiness to add some funk in there. The port like cherries and buttery, oak chardonnay grapes blend together nicely, while the earthy brett adds some funk and dries things out. The smooth bourbon, caramel, and vanilla laden oak add smoothness and sweeten things up from the tart fruit. The body is substantial and smooth with moderate carbonation which lends to easy drinking. The palate avoids any alcoholic heat, which is a surprise considering the heft of this brew. This is a really nice blend of barrels that sports equal parts sweetness and tartness. Really good brew.

12oz bottle Tasting at RSRIZZO’s 1/13/10 (Courtesy of Beerandblues2)-Poured a dark golden/light copper. Aroma of sour and funk. Taste of sour, malt, and brett. This light to medium bodied brew was well balanced and quite tasty.

Bottle shared by DosBeerigos. Thanks bud. Another great sour from Avery. Good complexity in the aroma with hints of cherries and vinegar. Nice sour funkness in the flavor. Easy sipping beer.

Bottle. [thanks Bu11seye]
Hazy orange amber with a big, frothy, off-white head. Aroma is oaky, tart, brett, crispy malts, some cherries, light lactic. Highish carbonation, fairly light mouthfeel, some oiliness. Flavour has good tartness, lots of oak, light vinious, grapes, light apples, zesty, a bit of vanilla. Elegant and very drinkable sour ale.

Bottle: Poured a lightly reddish cloudy color ale with a large foamy head with good retention. Aroma consists of vinous notes with some lightly sweet port notes and a clear tart finish. Taste is a complex mix between some vinous notes with a subtle sweet undertones and a well balanced tart finish. Body was quite full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Very well brewed and assembled with a balanced mix between the different flavors.

!2 oz. bottle, 2009. Mike, thanks for sharing! Pours a brownish-amber with a smallish white head. Aroma was not what I expected from a sour. Subdued vinegar, with oak. Taste was more tart than sour. Tart cherries, vinous, oaky. Finish mildly tart fruit and acetic. Forgetable.

(12oz bottle generously shared by Mike!). Bottled on September 18, 2009. Pours clear amber with off-white head. Aroma is boozy with some tart cherries and other pit fruit. Taste has a sweet malt backbone with some tartness, but not very much. Medium bodied with a slick finish. Compared to a couple other sours we had, this was a bid boozy although it was still pretty nice.

Bottle @ home, courtesy of ratman. Thanks! Red maroon appearance with a foamy, light tan head. Mildly sour, oak, vinous flavor with some fruity esters. Oaky, vinous, red fruity, tart cherry, slight vanilla flavor. Tart, dark cherry, vanilla, woody, vinous finish. The alcohol is hidden extremely well. Probably my favorite sour from Avery so far.