Saturday, March 19, 2016

Avery Brewing Returns to Nebraska!


Colorado craft brewery brings flagship favorites and new releases

From their press release-----

After 21 years of piecing together 6-car-garages in an industrial alley in Boulder, founder and CEO Adam Avery was more than ready to build his dream brewery. A year ago, Avery opened the doors of his new 67,000 sq. ft., $30 million brewery filled with the best brewing equipment available, including four new 850 hl fermentation tanks that nearly doubled the brewery's capacity.

Now, Avery is ready to send their beers back to Nebraska! Beginning on March 21st, fans will be able to find favorite flagships on draft and in bottle shops, including Avery IPA and White Rascal Belgian-Style White Ale, a medal winner at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival. They'll also see the familiar face of The Maharaja Imperial IPA, plus bombers of Avery's newly released Twenty Three Anniversary, a 100% Brettanomyces fermented dark farmhouse ale.

Avery's expanded capacity has allowed them to create many new beers, including Liliko'i Kepolo, a tart Belgian witbier with passion fruit, and Raja, a double IPA featuring hops with dank tropical notes. Both will be available in Nebraska on draft and in cans.

Avery is especially excited to sending along some of their biggest and rarest beers to the Cornhusker State. Uncle Jacob's Stout (17.1% ABV) which is aged in Bourbon barrels, exemplifies the brewery's prowess over brewing massive beers while using fresh spirits barrels as a flavor component unto themselves. Nebraskans will also find a sprinkling of Old Perseverance, the newest edition to the lineup in experimental one-offs in Avery's Barrel-Aged Series.





To celebrate their return, Avery is inviting fans to join them at a series of area events:

  • 3/22: Inglenook Tap Takeover (Lincoln)
  • 3/22: Crescent Moon Pint Night (Omaha)
  • 3/23: Moran's Liquor Works Tap Takeover (Lincoln)
  • 3/23: Longwell's Pint Night (Lincoln)
  • 3/23: Lot 2 Beer Dinner (Omaha)
  • 3/24: Cunningham's Lunch Tap Takeover (Omaha)
  • 3/24: The Happy Raven Tap Party (Lincoln)
  • 3/24: Blatt West Tap Takeover (Omaha)
  • 3/24: Library Pub Tap Takeover (Omaha)
  • 3/25: Yia Yia's Tap Takeover (Lincoln)
  • 3/25: Jake's Sports Bar Tap Takeover (Blair)

Avery will be distributed throughout the state by Johnson Brothers of Nebraska.

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For more details, check out their website or Facebook page


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Avery is especially excited to sending along some of their biggest and rarest beers to the Cornhusker State. Uncle Jacob's Stout (17.1% ABV) which is aged in Bourbon barrels, exemplifies the brewery's prowess over brewing massive beers while using fresh spirits barrels as a flavor component unto themselves."

Oh there is a God in Heaven! Uncle Jacob's is one of the top 5 beers on the planet! I'd never heard of it, but purchased a single 12oz bottle from the brewery in February. I had it just two nights ago, it is actually "clean" in the mouth, with a nasal cavity presence that begins 10 seconds AFTER swallowing; just one facet of a stunning beer. Oh, what the heck, here is my review, below.

-- Dave K --



KNEE-JERK REACTIONS
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It's BIG
It's burny
Humongous mouthfeel...my mouth is shaping itself to mitigate the overload of sensation
Not stouty, but WHAT? 17% is what, so far.


OVERVIEW:
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The date-bar flavor is tremendously predominant, NOT dry, NOT bitter, carbonation is on the mellow end, the bigness is off scale, the bourbon/whiskey is more baked-in-naturally than any I've had, ever. I've described some BBS as beautiful date-bars with booze...Uncle Jacobs is the best, it is darker, fudgier, has that AWESOME smell of the little date-bar crumbs, cinnamon, and sugar out the wazoo, yet it is FAR, FAR from rich, it is just YUUUUUGE! Sort of a clean finish in the mouth actually, with the YUUUUUUGE being in the nasal cavities.

Goes on the wall of Greatest Beers Ever for sure. I'm not even done with the thing yet, it goes on the wall.


CHRONOLOGICAL THOUGHTS
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Avery Uncle Jacobs Bourbon Barrel Stout (BBS) eats Bourbon County Stout (BCS) for breakfast. This is bloody YUUUUUUGE, and that's not a Donald Trump phrase, that is from Dave! I need to compare Uncle J's to other beers, it is just to big to describe quickly otherwise. Starting with BCS, there is less immediate flavor, more flavor later, a HUGE feeling, and a DARKER date/fig flavor. I'm just sitting here after sip #2 pondering what I did today, but for sure it wasn't as amazing as the not-your-mothers date-bar experience that I am getting now. Starting with Outer Darkness, the beer is as "big", much smoother, sweeter, and a totally different flavor, but the hugeness is equivalent.

GAWD this is big!

Little raisins from the Thanksgiving raisin pie...are there cloves in that? Because it would seem that cloves are in Uncle Jacob's. Also, the imagined sensation of cinnamon, NOT in the ingredients list, is KILLER!

The alcohol is HOT but not cloying, and the heat, with the massiveness of baklava-level sweetness is totally welcome like scalding coffee in an igloo...well the alcohol heat is nice and not painful.

Do the internets agree with Dave? Because I think Uncle Jacobs is a 99.9 percentile beer. Off. Scale! There, I said it.

97 and 100 on the big two websites...I'm not too disappointed. A perfectly wonderful review:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Sampled at esbls. Really good. So rich. Bourbon , vanilla. Earth and roast. Big stuff. Hot. Jst so much to like.
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Anonymous said...

I remember my first beer too.

Nick S. said...

Thanks for the comment, Dave. Looks like I need to buy this beer. I saw it at Hy-Vee yesterday.