Lavery Brewing Liopard Oir

I picked up a bottle of Lavery Brewing Liopard Oir from Carson Street Deli in Pittsburgh while I was visiting. The beer pours a golden color with a frothy white colored head that leaves specks of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of lemon, grass, barnyard funk, Brettanomyces, light tartness and pepper. The taste is dry and lemony with a light body. It has a peppery flavor with a Brett funk to it with a light tartness on the finish. The alcohol content is 4.8% ABV. This was a nice and funky farmhouse ale that brought some citrus, but was more memorable for the Brettanomyces content.

Lavery Brewing La Bealtaine White Fire Wheat Ale

While in Pittsburgh at Carson Street Deli, I picked up a bottle of Lavery Brewing La Bealtaine White Fire Wheat Ale. The beer pours a golden-yellow color with a lofty and frothy white head that leaves specks of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of hop funk, lemon, wheat, grass, tangerine, orange, and pepper. The taste is light at first before a strong hop punch kick in and takes over. The hop flavor brings a funk and citrus flavors including lemon, orange, and tangerine. Pepper and spruce finish out the the beer with a grassy after taste. The mouth feel is very bubbly and champagne-like on the tongue. The alcohol content is 5.0% ABV. This was a wonderful wheat beer that packs a great hop punch, reminiscent of some of the beers I have received in the Rare Beer of the Month Club, but much cheaper.

Lavery Brewing Imperial Red Ale

I was given a bottle of Lavery Brewing Imperial Red Ale in a trade with Aleheads. The beer pours a cloudy red-amber color with a frothy white head that leaves some lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of fresh hop, pine, grass, and lemon. The taste has a caramel profile before a bitter, lemon, pine, and grass hop finish. Toasted malts linger in the background on the finish. The alcohol content is 7.2% ABV. I’d say this was a rather delicious red ale with plenty of bitter flavors to keep any hop head happy.