Avalon Spiced Ale
Two Brothers Brewing Company in Warrenville, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.93
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Pours a clear reddish gold with a hugh light brown head with a red hue that dissipated very slowly. Aroma is full of apples with some cinnamon undertones. Flavor has a strong sweet apple note with underlying spices and a slight bit of tartness at the end. Too much apple for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle sampled at the DC Local tasting. Bomber pours a transparent amber with a dusty, slightly beige head. Aroma is heavy on apples and spice, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom. Flavor is heavy on the apple, apple skins, some light crystal malts, sweet. Definitely a cider-ale mix.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Crisp clear ruby-tinted amber coloured body with a thin tan head. Aroma of amazing apple cider, malt, yeast, fruit, spice, allspice, cloves and more tart apples. Medium-bodied; Nice apple flavour up front with a good malt backbone, some hops sort of tucked in, some mulling spice, yeast and a bit of a nuttiness. Overall, a good and potent apple flavoured beer that shows some spice, character and a bit of a kick at the end. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York on 20-June-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 04-August-2009.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Bottle shared during a wind down after ABCF. Spiced compost in a glass. Imagine making a fruit salad, accidentally fumbling over your spicerack, & then leaving it on the counter for a couple days for your dog to clean up(but he avoids it). Disturbed sediment pour into a tulip glass. Muddled amber color, dusty white head. Smell is pleasant green apples & light amounts of stale ginger, pungent nutmeg & cinnamon sticks. I was initially eager to sink into this one. Taste is a total fuck up. Ooh, lets add way too much cinnamon to this cider, let’s really mess this shit up. Nutmeg is bitter & adds nothing but unpleasant soapiness. Allspice is way over board. A decent cider base, but it’s just flooded with pounds of dusty/sometimes stale & abused spices. It just becomes a dominate soapy & herbal mess halfway through the initial subtly sweet apples. Soda-like carbonation, & dry mouthfeel are fine, though it doesn’t matter, since the spices just run rampant. Just as bad as it was at Barcade months ago. Shame. Pricey too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear nut brown, minimal head. Restrained cinnamon and apple aroma. Fruity sweet and sour flavour. Medium bodied with clean mouthfeel. Light caramel behind apple and spices. Low bitterness. Quite interesting flavour, but the hard, clean malt is not acting to it’s advantage.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
(Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Dark amber colour with brief, off-white head. Fruity, spicy nose with notes of apples and dried fruit, slightly burned. Fruity, spicy taste with fried apples, dried fruit, rubber and a touch of brett? Not very bitter, medium body. Interesting, rather weird beer with a touch of calvados. More interesting than brilliant though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
I bought this because I found a bomber for tree-fiddy, but man, I probably wouldn’t even pay half that for this again - this is truly vile - like someone mixed equal parts shit-ass apple cider and shit-ass wheat beer - a bit of phenolic character, apple skins, dry spices (nutmeg, clove, cinnamon) - a really odd and off-putting herbal bitterness (yarrow or something) - sandalwood, dried flowers, reminiscent of sucking on specialty soaps from Bath and Body Works - I normally think this brewer doesn’t get enough love, but in this case, they really f-ed this one up - terrible - if it weren’t for the decent aroma, this would score much lower.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
22 oz. bomber. Nice apple cider smell to start with. Pours like a mix between amber and cider color, the glass brings out a bit more malt scent. Drinks mostly like a beer that had some mis-matched spices added just before bottling. And I’m kind of missing the apples I thought would be here; perhaps they fermented out a bit more than expected. All I can come up with is a dried apple potpourri, though I think this is a little more complex than that. But not enough that I can really say I want another. Still, somehow I am compelled to drink it.