Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Colossal Avery

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In 1993, Adam Avery launches his Avery Brewing Company in a garage off an alley in Boulder, making him one of the pioneers of Colorado’s craft beer scene. At first, consumers were apprehensive when it came to the new tastes Avery introduced to the market place. In 1996, Avery was among the first breweries in Colorado to offer an IPA. Many of the deliveries were returned because the beer tasted too bitter. Pushing the limits in the brewhouse, they began experimenting with barrel aging in 2003 and barrel-aged fanatics throughout the nation seek the results out. Many of the big beers post ABVs of two touchdowns and a field goal. Peaks and Pints presents a five-beer flight of Avery’s big beers, which we call Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Colossal Avery.

Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Colossal Avery

Avery Tequilacerbus

7.35% ABV

Number 43 of Avery’s ”Barrel-Aged Series,” which is made up of small-batch, highly experimental beers that are brewed only once, this tart and citrusy sour is aged for several months in Suerte’s Anejo and Reposado barrels for tons of tequila flavor.

Avery Amicitia Barrel-Aged Sour 2017

8.2% ABV

Avery Amicitia Barrel-Aged Sour Ale is blended from an exclusive selection of Cabernet Sauvignon barrels provided by Larkmead and Chateau Montelena vineyards. It hits the nose with sour funk and acidity, plus fruit with some red wine, port wine, bramble berry, and light barnyard funk, followed by more acidity and sourness but not overpowering, with sweet candy malt, chocolate and hint of roast, and cocoa, plus tart grape, red wine, plum, and mixed berry.

Avery The Maharaja

10% ABV

The Maharaja is derived from the sanskrit words mahat, meaning “great,” and rajan, meaning “king.” Much like its namesake, this imperial IPA is regal, intense, and mighty. With hops and malts as his servants, he rules both with a heavy hand. The Maharaja flaunts his authority over a deranged number of hops (Columbus, Centennial, Chinook, Simcoe, and Amarillo): tangy, vibrant, and pungent along with an insane amount of malted barley — fashioning a dark amber hue and exquisite malt essence.

Avery Samael’s Oak Aged Ale

14.6% ABV

Samael is the prince of demons, the angel of death, accuser and destroyer. Filled with enmity toward man, he planted the vine, the forbidden tree of paradise. Behold his venom and vengeance, both sweet and tempting, enticing you, his spellbound victim, within his wings. Samael’s Oak Aged Ale is a super-caramelly, oak aged English-style barleywine. The oak is very apparent in this rich and high gravity ale, adding additional depth and complexity with a woody and cask-like nose and a pronounced vanilla flavor on the palate.

Avery Tweak

17.5% ABV

One of the most beloved creations from Avery’s barrel program, Tweak is made with espresso beans soaked in a bourbon barrel-aged stout with tons of bourbon on the nose, followed by bitter roastiness, bourbon, hop spice, burnt coconut, charred oak, and coffee. The aftertaste is the same with a mix of sweet bourbon and vanilla.

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