Avery Anniversary Twenty One
Imperial India-Style Brown Ale. TWENTY ONE is built on a foundation of dark specialty malts, framed by sturdy IBUs and crowned with a monumental dry hop addition of two of our favorites, Amarillo and Simcoe.
3.7
216 reviews
Boulder, United States
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Bottle. Pours a dark brown. Aroma and taste are bitter with pine resin and caramel.
Notes from Churchkey Avery Cellar event. Draft->snifter. Dark amber with lite tan head. Chocolate, tar, coffee grounds, with some floral and pine hops. Quite bitter finish. Pretty good.
Piney resin hop aroma with some floral and a Caramelized malt backing. Taste is malty with a bitter hop finish, but enough malt to balance very well. Nice dark Caramelized malt, very hoppy, very full flavored. Nice beer but feels very bold. Not sticky palate but a sipper for sure.
Not a black IPA, but a "brown" IPA. And it is that. Strong DIPA all the way around. Malty notes are more brown than black -- slightly milder. Good.
Bottle 650ml @ Hotel room, Fairfield Inn, Flushing, NY
Pours slightly hazy reddish brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, cocoa, milk chocolate, orange and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long cocoa, milk chocolate, caramel and fruity finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Very nice hoppy brown ale.
Bottle, 22oz. A hazy, brown beer topped by a dense, light beige head of moderate size. The aroma is on the malty side, with piney, resiny hops and a lovely malty touch. Cocoa, as well as roasted malts, some dark sugar, toffee and a bready hint. The flavor has a nice bitterness to deal with the malty sweetness there is. In fact it’s quite dry, with a nice carbonation level. Full body. Roasted malts, bread, nuts, some brown sugar and chocolate in the flavor, with a piney touch as well. Lasting finish. Pretty wonderful this one, should be in the regular lineup I think. 150606
Bottle from Craft Beer Cellar in Columbia. A little underwhelming for Avery. A tasty medium-bodied brown rather than an IPA in my book.
Aroma: caramel, alcohol, citrus, spruce,
Appearance: dark amber, clear, tan foam,
Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness,
Palate: medium body, creamy, average carbonation, long finish,
Very good
Bottle shared by the soaking wet Chudwick. This is an odd one. I thought it was very similar to a barley wine. It is different fo sho.
Bomber - I like bipa’s but this was off. The bitterness was too prominent. Odd.
Poured a dark brown with a cream head. Aroma is pine hops with caramel, toasted, and chocolate malts. Flavor is toasted and chocolated malts with a nutty character, along with citrus and simcoe hop elements. Medium to full bodied with a medium carbonation and a bitter hoppy resinous mouthfeel amd a nutty malt finish.
22 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown that has some great amber hues when held up to light. Big two finger, super creamy looking khaki head that leaves a lot of lacing. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel, hazelnut, biscuit, chocolate, and of course hoppy citrus. Taste is toasty caramel malts up front with a nice nuttiness and a strong showing of citrus and piney hops. Also picking up chocolate and biscuit underneath it all, even a hint of spices on the back end. Hops aren’t particularly bitter but certainly present. I am also getting a bit of a warming feel going that is usually only present in higher ABV beers. Certainly can’t taste the alcohol in this, but you feel it. Good but slightly quick finish of malt, caramel and citrus. Leaves a nice lingering aftertaste of toasted caramel malts and nuttiness. Medium bodied, texture is slick but ultimately a little too thin, average to lively carbonation. This would make a helluva good brown ale on it’s own. I’m just wishing that the hops were a little more pronounced in the taste. They’re certainly there and you definitely taste them, but the brown ale is the more dominating taste here.
On tap at Lunar Brewing Co., and snifter served displaying a clear, deep mahogany hue, with a presentable hat of tan froth, and lacing that was a combination of doily-like ribbons & spots. The nose started malty, a bit toasted & roasted, with a hint of woodiness?, then citrus, a touch of dark/dried fruit, some lurking alcohol, and sweetened by a combination of caramel & toffee. Medium+ bodied, with modest carbonation, the taste showed more alcohol influence, and added a moderately strong, earthy, resinous, and rind-like bitterness that lingered well into the finish. Flavorful and well balanced.
22oz bottle. Pours clear, dark ruby. Aroma of citrus, caramel, spruce, dried fruits. Flavor is caramel, cherry juice, citrus, pine, brown sugar. Like a slightly sweetened IPA. A nice complexity to the lowering of bitterness, but a sweetened malt coming through.
On tap at Hop Cat. Pours a pitch black, little on the nose. Very light bodied but well balanced. Surprisingly light. Nice. Smooth
This is good brown ale but instead of the sweetness on the back end you get IPA spices, and a nice 8.3%, highly wrecked-omended.
draft, brown, just a solid brown hoppy ale, good grassy bitter brown ale, interesting. I would call this a brown ale.
This beer pours a very clear copper color with a medium khaki-colored head that fades slowly. The aroma blends caramel malts and resin, citrus, and floral hops; the taste mildly bitter and slightly sweet with an aftertaste that is slightly buttery and somewhat resinously hoppy. The palate fuses a lively carbonation, medium-light body, and a slightly sticky texture.
Это пиво вкусное. я, конечно, рекомендую его всем, что любит хорошую Craft пива!
Bottle. The pour is a deep brown. The aroma is warming hops, very nice. The taste is big hops up front and really nice. However, the backend leaves a funk and is overly bitter, which sucks since that is what you leave with.
Pours chestnut brown with an off white head. Aroma is caramel, chocolate, floral and citrus. Taste is lots of hoppy bitterness that is tempered by some sweetness. Medium bodied. Very solid beer.
22 oz bottle. Pours brown with a light tan head. I drank this with a color blind guy who swears its light purple with an orange head. Aroma is alcoholic with a pine character. Mouthfeel is perfect: balanced carbonation with a medium body. Taste is bitter with some floral and pine notes.
Pours a dark brown with a thick creamy head and good retention. Strong aromas of pine mixed with fruity hops, brown sugar and caramel. Flavors of medium pine, slight fruity hop, brown sugar, caramel, light smoked wood backbone. Medium sweet and bitter. Slight astringent finish. Slight alcohol noticed. Slightly dry. A good balance of hoppy meets malty. Good brew!
Bomber from Kroger in Grandview. Dark brown pour with light tan head. Aroma of pine, citrus, wood, roasty. Tastes of roasty caramel, licorice, nutty, earthy, pine, light citrus. Even and drinkable - not as harsh as many of the bipa’s. Creamy medium palate.
Nice malty taste. Some hops but not over the top. Very balanced and very drinkable. Rememberable, but not mind melting. Sweet cocoa flavor.
Dark brown pour with decent tan head. Piney hoppy delicious. Hints of toffee and caramel. Pretty good brown ipa.
First I thot this was the other avery 21, impy stout but after further investigation I found its the anniversary edition. Get it straight avery, be careful of the name. Nice and dark. Bready malty aroma, quite different than the a typical black ipa. Quite strong and malty on the taste as well. Hops in the background but not like most black ipa or rye beers. A different kind of black ipa fer sure.
Draft at Churchkey. Clear deep maroon brown color, tan head. Aroma of real licorice, cocoa, espresso (or maybe cafe coretto). Taste is rich black coffe, bitter coffee, bitter pine. Very tasty.
The aroma is hops, spruce, grass/floral. Pours a dark brown with a light brown head mostly diminishing and excellent lacing. The taste is bitter. The body is medium, the texture creamy, the carbonation lively and the finish bitter. OK
Poured from bomber into tulip glass. This was...not what I expected. Rather than an imperial brown, it just tasted like a black IPA. Hoppy and bitter, without out much malt or nutty flavors to balance. I had trouble finding the brown ale in this and was left fairly disappointed.