Salvation
Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.13
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The success of HOG HEAVEN and THE REVEREND clearly demonstrates that beer drinkers are willing to embrace "BIGGER" beers. In the fall of 2001, we decided that a lighter BIG BEER would complement its darker colored predecessors. Salvation has luscious apricot and peach aromas delicately interwoven with spicy suggestions of nutmeg and cinnamon. This heavenly soft, champagne-like elixir is cellarable for 3 years.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled 7/28/2011. Pours moderately cloudy golden amber color with a nice 1-2 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Good spotty foamy lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of big lemon, pear, peach, biscuit, nuttiness, pepper, herbal, earth, floral, honey, clove, light banana, and yeast spiciness. Damn nice aromas with good complexity, balance, and strength. Taste of pear, peach, biscuit, nuttiness, pepper, herbal, floral, earth, honey, light clove, and yeast spices. Lingering notes of light fruits, biscuit, nuttiness, herbal, earth, honey, clove, and light yeast spices on the finish for a bit. Very well balanced flavors with nice complexity; no cloying sweetness at all after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a fairly slick and lightly crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice Belgian strong golden ale. Very nice balance and complexity of flavors; extremely smooth to sip on. Really enjoyed this one. Avery does a really nice job on many of their Belgian styles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2012
at 21:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml Bottle - Hazy gold/amber with a small head. Malt, spice, dried apricot, hops and yeast in the aroma. Fruity, sweet and spicy taste with notes of ginger, cinnamon, yeast, apricot, lemon and honey. A lot of body and plenty of flavour. Very easy to drink for the strength.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2012
at 13:43
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
17th April 2010
Very slight haze on this amber - gold beer. Little white head. Light dry palate. Spicy light malt, a little aniseed alcohol then a honeyish finish. More light aniseed and spice in the aftertaste. Not bad.
Very slight haze on this amber - gold beer. Little white head. Light dry palate. Spicy light malt, a little aniseed alcohol then a honeyish finish. More light aniseed and spice in the aftertaste. Not bad.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2012
at 06:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Golen with a white head - sweet flower/fruit aroma - taste is of caramel malt with some spicy/fruity notes - nice spicy finish - nice
Tried
on 24 Apr 2012
at 05:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Fruktig, rund och fin smak av aprikos och apelsin samt belgisk jäst. Den vi drack var lagrad 1 år vilket gjorde smaken mer balanserad. 3,7p
Tried
on 12 Apr 2012
at 12:32
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
22oz bomber poured into a snifter. Pours a cloudy orange with about a finger of off-white head. Lots of citrus, with some good light fruits. Taste is light sweet. Dried apricots, light fruit and citrus. Full bodied with a creamy texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, I like this beer...a lot. It recently got pulled from my area so this will probably be the last one I’ll have for a while.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2012
at 23:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
65 cl bottle @ home, bottled 11.03.2011
Aroma is sweet with apricot, some peach and american hops. Flavour is too sweet with apricot, peaches and some spices. Becomes even more sweet with sugar towards the end of the glass. Too sweet and a bit sticky but good anyway.
Aroma is sweet with apricot, some peach and american hops. Flavour is too sweet with apricot, peaches and some spices. Becomes even more sweet with sugar towards the end of the glass. Too sweet and a bit sticky but good anyway.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2011
at 05:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
650ml bottle from Systembolaget
Bottled on 11.03.2011 - Pours orange with a bubbly head. Aroma has notes of fruits, spices, malts and sweet caramel. Taste is sweet and malty with notes of apricose, peach and other exotic fruits. Finish is sticky and sweet. Alcohol burns through slightly. Okay, a bit too sweet and slightly unbalanced.
Bottled on 11.03.2011 - Pours orange with a bubbly head. Aroma has notes of fruits, spices, malts and sweet caramel. Taste is sweet and malty with notes of apricose, peach and other exotic fruits. Finish is sticky and sweet. Alcohol burns through slightly. Okay, a bit too sweet and slightly unbalanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2011
at 05:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft, courtesy of the Churchkey crew, thanks! Bright clear golden color, huge white fluffy head. Aroma of bamboo and grass. Taste is clean, crisp, slightly sour pear and pepper.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Dec 2011
at 08:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Shared bottle at RBNAG 11. Deep golden body with almost no head. Body feels oily. Aroma of sweet malt, alcohol, citrus fruit and spices. Flavor is very sweet malt, fruit, spices and a bit vinous. Typical strong Belgium style. Thick body. Sweet aftertaste, some bitterness and warming alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2011
at 09:49