Avalanche Ale - Breckenridge Brewery

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762 Ratings

rAvg: 3.22
pDev: 17.7%
Reviews: 412
Hads: 350

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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 PorterLambic:

PorterLambic

Florida

2.95/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Arrives a dark amber, almost brown, color with an off-white head that drops to a film. Great lacng left behind.
Smell is pear, malt and yeast. The pear part is odd. No indication that it even is an intended part of the flavor profile.
Taste is pear, yeast, malt and tortilla chips. Again, what is with the pear note? Odd note for this style.
Almost medium bodied with a faint effervescence as I've come to expect with cask ales. Decent but gotta say, after almost a half dozen, I'm not loving the cask. Even with familiar brews they are coming across weak and almost watery. The lower carbonation is fine but where does the body go?

Serving type: cask

09-08-2012 02:56:49 | More by PorterLambic

More User Reviews:

Thecasehead

Ohio

3.5/5 rDev +8.7%

05-23-2013 23:00:51 | More by Thecasehead

Slatetank

Pennsylvania

3.5/5 rDev +8.7%

05-23-2013 16:53:33 | More by Slatetank

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