Avery to feature new Barrel-Aged Series
[2/12 Update: Beer will be released on 2/18]
[1/8 Update: Senior Brewer, Andy Parker, has provided a very informative post about Brabant in this RateBeer.com thread. ]
(Boulder, CO) – Avid Beernews.org geeks may have caught a mention of Avery Brabant on yesterday’s release calendar for February. Avery Brewing has quietly started a new barrel-aging project out in Colorado and the first beer,
Avery Brabant
will arrive early next month with a release party at the brewery.
The new beer looks like a variation of the previously retired “Avery Originale Brabant” posted at RateBeer. The site displays the following description: “In September 2006, we diverted about 6 bbl of Old Jubilation wort into a small tank with our Belgian Abbey yeast (same as Reverend and Salvation) for primary fermentation. A portion of this was then transferred into a wine cask and dosed with Brettanomyces Bruxelles. After about one year of aging, the result is Brabant.”
Avery’s page for the new beer reads, “No. 1 Brabant is a luscious dark ale fermented with two strains of wild yeast (brettanomyces) then aged for eight months in Zinfandel barrels.” They sound very similar. Regardless, these will be packaged in 12 oz. bottles, of which 12,500 were produced.
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February 11th, 2009 at 8:48 am
[...] Avery Brabant [...]
August 8th, 2009 at 11:27 am
[...] The 20 year version was just amazing, very well balanced and super smooth to drink. The other is Brabant from Avery which is a dark ale soured and aged in Zinfandel barrels. Probably one of the best sour beers [...]
December 15th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
[...] and fruit brings a lot of oak tones but the flavor is more like a Zinfandel aging taste similar to Avery’s Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale than the heavy bourbon flavor of say Goose Island’s Bourbon County [...]