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Starring TIME Magazine and a Sierra Nevada Barley Wine, brewed in conjunction with Avery Brewing of Boulder CO.
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This is a very good brettanomyces fermented saison. Very fruity and not too funky, but still enough funkiness.
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Raspberry sour ale by Avery Brewing. This is a pretty good sour ale. I think you have to have acquired a taste for sour beer to appreciate this one. Not sure if I'm there yet. It seemed pretty sour to me. I still enjoyed the whole bomber! I will try it again sometime.
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Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/index2.html
Beer style: Saison/Fruit beer
Alcohol (by volume): 7.7%
Tasted at: home
Note: brewed with jasmine flowers, peaches and honey
Note: 16th anniversary
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I've been saving this one for a while. This is from batch 10 released in November 2014. Wow! It has a real nice chocolate and caramel flavor along with a big kick at 17.1% abv! Definitely one of my favorites!
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A bottle of Avery Anniversary Sixteen from Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado.
Avery Anniversary Sixteen is a 7,69% abv Saison bottled in May 2009 to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the brewery. It poured a cloudy, pale yellow color with a big white head. Bready yeast aroma with notes of honey, caramel malt and some fruit. Medium light body with a good carbonation. Flavor starts out with a sweet fruitiness, some yeast notes and honey. Finish is spicy and Belgian style hoppy. Nice and refreshing. A very good Saison.
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Web site: www.averybrewing.com/BigBeers/seasonal/TheMaharaja
Beer style: Imperial IPA
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol (by volume): 9.8%
Tasted at: a friend's house in Roanoke, Virginia
Note: I replaced the original photo which was batch 3 from 2006...
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I had this one for dessert the other night. It's a real good chocolatey, malty imperial stout. It's part of Avery Brewing's "Dictator Series" . I have had all three, but only photographed two. Next chance I get I will photograph "The Kaiser".
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A collaboration between Avery Brewing in Colorado and Russian River Brewing in California. This is a Belgian strong dark ale - Avery's Salvation blended with Russian River's Salvation.
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One of the high points of this tasting session was the Thirteen anniversary ale from Boulder, Colorado, based Avery Brewing Co.
This 9,5% abv rich and uber smooth Weizen Doppelbock has a flavor of dark fruits with some spice and banana. And sweet, almost chocolate, maltiness. Did I say smooth? It's a world class beer!
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A nice refreshing tart Belgian white ale for after my ski this afternoon. Very refreshing!
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What an awesome beer this Avery Ale to the Chief! is. A good pale ale, hoppy but not utterly bitter, high in alcohol, but not blinding. Cascades and Magnum hops pop out of the glass and onto your nose. The body is smooth and nice, and it goes down a lot faster than a beer with almost 9% alcohol should. And the color is nice, too.
A bottle of the Avery Anniversary Ale Fourteen from Avery Brewing Co in Boulder, Colorado.
This beer, brewed in 2007 to celebrate the 14th anniversary for the Avery Brewing Co, is a 9,46% abv and 60 IBUs American Strong Ale. It poured a clear dark brown color with a fine light brown head. Aroma was rich and sweet, with chocolate and vanilla and some hops. Rich creamy mouthfeel. Flavor starts out very sweet, with dark sugars and malts, then the hops start to kick in and give the beer a nice dry finish. Another great anniversary ale from Avery, though I still think Thirteen was a bit more complex and intense.
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I really like the taste of this one, it has a thick rich taste like a Belgian triple, very well balanced, the 10.03% ABV is nicely hidden. I paid $7.99 for this bottle.
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/BigBeers/seasonal/OldJubilation
Beer style: Old ale
Alcohol (by volume): 8.0%
Tasted at: home
Note: part of my Milwaukee beer bounty
My little princess joins me in celebrating this week’s royal of a feature. Avery Brewing knows how to put together a great ale, and the Maharaja Imperial IPA is a true testament to that. Literally translating to “Great” (Maha) “King” (Raja), this ale effortlessly claims its right to be amongst nobility of IPAs.
What I truly love about Avery is they aren’t secretive about the ingredients in their recipes. To tell you the truth, I’m surprised they used nothing but American ingredients. Thought for sure I tasted distinct English flavors in this ale. Hop varieties included are Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe, & Crystal (btw, Crystal is an excellent hop to dry hop with). Malts used are a bit simpler. They use the 2 row pale malt, crystal 120L, & Victory malts.
End result is a great Imperial IPA which exceeds 10% ABV. So worth it to try.
3/27/09
52 Beers week of 3/22 – 3/28
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/index2.html
Beer style: Imperial IPA (Double IPA, IIPA)
Alcohol (by volume): 8.5%
Tasted at: home
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company, Russian River Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/BigBeers/seasonal/CollaborationnotLi..., russianriverbrewing.com/web/brews.html
Beer style: Belgian dark strong ale
Alcohol (by volume): 8.7%
Tasted at: home
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com
Beer style: Belgian specialty ale?
Alcohol (by volume): 8.7%
Tasted at: a friend's house during the May meeting of the Star City Brewers Guild
Note: fermented entirely with Brettanomyces and aged in zinfandel barrels
Note: some comments from the brewer here
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company, Russian River Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/BigBeers/seasonal/CollaborationnotLi..., russianriverbrewing.com/web/brews.html
Beer style: Belgian dark strong ale
Alcohol (by volume): 8.7%
Tasted at: home
Oh some 15 – 16 years ago, when my friends and I were first starting to explore this crazy discovery called microbrews, I drank my first barleywine. They sold it at one of the few bars that had more than Red Hook on tap. You could only buy it in bottles, and one bottle per person per night. I hated the stuff. The alcohol overpowered everything in the drink, making it an awful waste of $3 bucks. Most of my friends were raving about it, so I bit my tongue and quietly endured the rest of the bottle. You see, back then it wasn’t so much about the experience so much as the end result…getting shitfaced (besides it still tasted better than the Mickey’s big mouth’s I was drinking at the time). So with that first impression of barleywines, I pretty much avoided them since, no matter which brewery produced them. That is until tonight:
Avery Brewing is one of those breweries who I know no matter what I try, it will be a great version of the respective brew style. So I figured it was pretty safe picking up the Hog Heaven. Turns out my faith is well placed, ‘cuz this Barleywine is good.
Avery’s Hog Heaven is more a celebration of the malts than a push for a high alcohol content. Don’t worry it is still well over 9% ABV. The malt characters are definitely the focus of this ale w/ a complexity to entice the pallet from the first swazz to the last.
All in all I stand corrected about my impression of a Barleywine style ale, and will start exploring the offerings from my favorite breweries in the very near future.
5/22/09
52 Beers week of 5/17 – 5/22
Various stickers on sign outside the Whole Foods Liquor store. At least they are on the back of the sign, but directly as you exit the store.
Brewery: Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, CO, USA
Website: www.averybrewing.com/BigBeers/seasonal/AletotheChief
Beer style: "Presidential pale ale", Imperial IPA (Double IPA, IIPA)
Alcohol (by volume): 8.8%
Tasted at: home
Note: the glass seemed to be just perfect for this beer! It is from Capital City Brewing Company. The other side of the glass references their "Inaugerale". Gregg Wiggins, of Mid-Atlantic Brewing News was nice enough to pick up the glass for me and even mail it to me (at his own expense). Hell of a guy!
Avery Brewing's Salvation ale, one of the two ales blended to make "Collaboration not Litigation Ale". The second beer is used in the blend is also named Salvation but is brewed by Russian River.
Our waiter: "Wow. You guys are really going big today."
Three people + ten 4 oz. samplers = totally reasonable.
Of course we bring beer to the summit of a 10.800 ft peak. I had to take 2 exposures because Jason wasn't holding onto the can in the 1st one. In case you're wondering, the beer is White Rascal from Avery Brewing, scored 84 at Beer Advocate.
mhhhh. Maharaja.
when we were leaving on sunday Adam Avery was packing up some items to bring to his business trip to the bay area. hopefully they'll have distribution out here soon.
Maharaja is soooo goood.