Name: Avery: Samael's Oakwood Ale
Brewed In/Type: Bolder, CO / Barleywine
Bought at/Price Binny's / $7.99 a bottle
Dennis: I knew, the minute I started pouring this, that it would be very very very thick. Syrupy almost. Of course at 14% alcohol you have to do something to hide the taste. Sweet, malty, but more so just really sweet. This really does come through with a ....wait for it....sweet oaky taste, but really that's all I get. For the price, and taste I'd really rather have a bottle of The Beast, which blends better flavors than this.
Jen: I have to say that this is my least favorite of the Avery's for 2 reasons: 1. the price 2. the drinkability. I find this to be thick and too "rich" for my blood. It is like drinking liquid maple sugar candy. It has a sicky sweet oaky flavor that is follow by a twinge of alcohol, and then followed by sicky sweet vanilla flavor. Sound redundant, well that is the kind of feeling I get from this. Quite honestly, I expected a little more from Avery's other than a bottle of alcohol-flavored maple syrup.
Rating: 3 out of 5 (price really killed it)