Avalanche Ale - Breckenridge Brewery

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760 Ratings

rAvg: 3.22
pDev: 17.7%
Reviews: 412
Hads: 348

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Brewed by:
Breckenridge Brewery

Colorado, United States

Style | ABV
American Amber / Red Ale | 4.40% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (346), on-tap (39), can (24), nitro-tap (2), cask (1).

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Reviews by Dave128:

Dave128

Kentucky

3.33/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a Duvel tulip.

A - A rigorous pour yields a measly 1 finger head that fizzes away quickly. Cloudy amber in color. No lace. Barely a ring around the glass.

S - Smells pretty basic. Biscuity smells.

T - Also very basic. I can't really taste much hops. Dry malt character without much else to balance it.

M - Thin and appropriately carbonated.

O - This is what I call a "wash it down" beer. Its got simple flavors and equates to not much more than a beverage to go with dinner.

Serving type: bottle

10-28-2011 04:37:28 | More by Dave128

More User Reviews:

BeerDocT

Georgia

3.1/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Poured the can into a chilled tulip glass.

Appearance 3.0: Light amber color. Small head dissipated into characteristic CO2 swirls on top.

Smell 3.5: Very nice bouquet. Hints of biscuit malt, barley and a slight bubblegum smell.

Taste 3.0: Front is a dry barley taste. Middle is basically gone. Nothing there. Finish is slightly hoppy: think Kent Goldings type hoppy, though. That's right: more "mossy" flavor and not biting at all. Finish is more malt and barley. Dry throughout and would probably go well with food.

Mouthfeel: 3.0: OK level of carbonation and is clearly 100% CO2.

Overall 3.0: Good, basic beer. Nothing special. Reminiscent of another Colorado brewery's famous beer (namely New Belgium's Fat Tire), this is an OK beer, but certainly nothing extraordinary.

Serving type: can

05-20-2013 22:30:07 | More by BeerDocT

Tjvan2

Iowa

3.5/5 rDev +8.7%

05-20-2013 01:22:39 | More by Tjvan2

yankinwis

Wisconsin

3.75/5 rDev +16.5%

05-19-2013 22:18:16 | More by yankinwis

yankhawk

Iowa

3.75/5 rDev +16.5%

05-19-2013 14:47:11 | More by yankhawk

jharris0624

Missouri

3.25/5 rDev +0.9%

05-19-2013 03:01:24 | More by jharris0624

MinorThreat

Colorado

2.75/5 rDev -14.6%

05-16-2013 00:40:46 | More by MinorThreat

matjack85

Illinois

3.28/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

I bought this at Binny's as part of a build-your-own six pack for $9.99, making it $1.67 for a single 12oz bottle. No freshness date.

Pours a clear amber/red color with just a half-finger of white head, but despite the small head it left a decent amount of lacing.

Hardly any smell to this. You have to swirl it around in the glass pretty hard to coax a little malt, sweet caramel, and floral hops out of it.

More caramel malt than anything else, making it a tad sweet. Hops are more floral than bitter as it only has 19 IBU's to it. Not really much to this but it's still tasty in a simple kind of way.

Very thin body, almost watery, with moderate carbonation.

Nothing stands out but there's nothing bad either. Very drinkable.

Serving type: bottle

05-14-2013 10:07:17 | More by matjack85