Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Very black with salty grapefruit aroma. Loads of salty licorice, roasty, sweet and immensly flavourful. Very bitter salty bitter finish. Many thanks to hopsrus for a box full of incredible beers!
omhper (44752) reviewed Salvation from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled. Orange coloured and lightly hazy. Aroma of almond and honey. Salty, malty, soft, complex and woody. More bitter than most belgian style ales.
omhper (44752) reviewed Old Jubilation Ale from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Mahogany colour. Roasty and malty, soft and rounded. Very tasty and complex with salty bitterish finish and a touch of wood.
Silphium (4308) reviewed Anniversary Ten from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bitter hints of hops pervade the otherwise caramely, malty aroma. Pours a dark straw color, with a thin white head. Flavor is sugary and caramely with a slight bready tone and bitter hops kick. Not quite an IPA, and not quite a barleywine, Avery Ten stakes out its own claim and delivers with a decent success rate.
Silphium (4308) reviewed White Rascal from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Another wit, what a treat! I have to admit I was quite impressed by White Rascal's appearance: very pale yellow with a thin white head, the ale looked like the signature of refreshment. But, as the librarians and cantankerous scribes tell us, do not judge a beer by its hue! The flavor was overwhelmed by coriander, making the wheat and orange peel accents an afterthought. I prefer a yeastier, wheatier witbier with just a touch of spice. If Avery toned down the spice, this could become a classic.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Out of Bounds Stout from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This is kind of the kid brother to The Czar but it is a decent Dry Stout. Pours a dark brown (but not opaque) with a dark red halo. Aroma is strong roasted coffee with a little chocolate in the background. Rich with a big coffee presence, along with a little malt and chocolate. Finish is very dry and toasty with a light hops zing. Well-balanced and easy to drink.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Old Jubilation Ale from Avery Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Very dark chestnut with red shine. Slight, light-brown head. Nose of grapes, raisins, vineous and hops. With warming up, there follows a smell of kaffirlime (peel, as in Thai cuisine). Taste are grapes, tobacco, some bitter chocolate,and lots of hops, but well balanced with dark malts. Very chewy mouthfeel. Retronasal gives nice tobacco-and-hops, long, but after a quite long time, a new impression of sweet chocolate emerges. What impresses me most in this beer is its very succeeded balance.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed IPA from Avery Brewing Company 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Colour: yellow with gold-copper shine throughout, hints of Chablislike green; thick white, luxurious head but disappearing rather fast. Nose: full-hoppy aroma, not metallic or overpowering, slight wet cardboard taint, also DMS (?) Taste: Amazingly nice hoppy taste, much more flavour than real bitter taste; hops seem more UK than USA character. Aftertaste: retronasal aromas of cypress, crisp finish. each gulp gives renewed helping of fresh hops, always with this cypresslike flavouring. Hops keep lingering at the tonguesides. This beer is in many aspects an epitomizing of American IPA, were it not for the character of the hops. Very drinkable for all its hoppiness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
This is very WWS-ish, but much less sweet. Pours a dark black, thick, with low carbonation. Smells like plums, brown sugar and dates. Initially, the flavor is spicy, then the sweetness, currants, toffee. Spice comes back again in the finish. This stuff coats the inside of the mouth. I can see the barely wine like character that some have said this exhibits. This is quite a unique imperial stout. I wish I could get this here. Thanks brewbandit!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
2002 Bottle: I could tongue kiss Governor Bob Taft for making beers like this available in Ohio. Pours black as octopus ink with a slight ruby halo. Very thin beige head and thin lacing. Yummy aroma of coffee, chocolate, toffee and malt that gets even better throughout the glass. Flavor is an interesting concoction of coffee, chocolate, tart soy sauce, and alcohol. Perfect hops counterbalance in the finish. I don't even know how this bottle disappeared so fast but I want another.