E-Malt.com News article: USA, CO: Avery Brewing to release Volunt Plus Erat

Avery Brewing has release its latest small-batch sour ale, westword.com reported on April, 29.

The beer is No. 14 in the Boulder brewery's acclaimed Barrel-Aged Series. It has been eight months since No. 13, Odio Equum, was released.

Volunt Plus Erat was fermented with two strains of brettanomyces yeast.

There is an extremely limited amount of the beer available to the public, 55 cases, so bottles were only sold Saturday, May 4 from the Avery taproom. Bottles cost $8 each and there was a limit of six per person.

The brewery waited eight months between releases because it wanted to make sure the beer was ready and because Avery, which has been struggling to keep up with demand for its bigger production beers, needed to find the tank space, Avery spokesman Joe Osborne explains.

Avery's fifteenth Barrel-Aged beer, Momi Hiwa - a rum-barrel-aged coconut porter - will be ready soon, however, as well as a sixteenth beer later this year.

Avery likes to use Latin, Greek or other languages to name the beers in this series because they are "experimental, creative beers with a lot of mystery to them," Osborne says. "So we wanted to have mystery with the names as well."

08 May, 2013