Avarice & Greed
Roadhouse Brewing Co.

Review: 2336
Name: Avarice & Greed
Brewery: Roadhouse Brewing
Location: Jackson, WY
ABV: 9%
Style: Belgian Pale Strong Ale
Canned: 24 September 2021
Date: 15 March 2025
Another beer from the cellar. I remember buying this beer, but I thought it was more recent. I am using a Schlitz chalice and serving the beer at 44 degrees. The pour created a frothy, creamy, half-fingered, bright white head with average retention. The color is golden yellow with a light amber hue, charting at SRM 8, and is cloudy. The somewhat quick dissipation left no lacing on the glass. I was hoping for a longer-lasting head; other than that, the beer is beautiful.
Nosing the glass, I cloves, banana, floral ester, yeasty phenols, lightly toasted malts, honey, and light earthiness. The beer's aroma is simple for a Belgian pale ale.
I taste bananas, cloves, floral esters, yeasty phenols, lightly toasted malts, honey, malty sweetness, bready, light earthiness, and touch phenolic.
The mouthfeel is astringent and finishes slightly warming. The body is medium-light and has medium carbonation.
The beer is reminiscent of a Wizen bock. Its delightful hop profile has not diminished much over the last three and a half years. The beer is an easy sipper, I would drink this again.

Taster at Growler Guys. Pale, hazy golden, spotty head. Aroma is sweet, yeasty, Belgian. Tadte starts similar to a triplel or weizen, bananas, yeast, clove, sweet. Full mouth feel. A bit sweet, but nice.

 

 

 

tasty strong ale here, belgian yeast driven, skinny cans an interesting choice for a beer like this, but the liquid is nice, these guys do a lot of things very well. smells and tastes like a belgian triple to me, intense yeasty esters of green banana, clove spice, and orange candy, with a cracked pepper wrinkle, some wheat likely in the mash, and some generic malt sweetness running through most of it. it must have some sugar added beyond the malt, it lingers a little on the finish, offsetting the spiciness left on my tongue from the yeast. overripe peach, mashed banana, tangerine, anise, lemongrass, and honey are all swirling around in the flavor here, not a lot of hops, so less of a belgian pale to me. i dont mind a little alcohol coming through in these styles, its present here but not over the top at all, and it slows me down enough to let this warm up some, which is when its at its best and most flavorful. white grape, sauternes, confectioners sugar, toasted grains, and high tone esters round this out, decent body to it to support all the flavor and booze, and carbonation thats pretty bright, but still short of that effervescent range i like for these belgian styles. maybe a little overly estery, not phenolic but you have to love belgian yeast to like this one. its not as unique on the ferment as i had hoped, but i like this sort of thing and genuinely appreciate the effort!

 

Pours a cloudy, medium straw color, ample sediment suspended in the glass. Nose is big Belgian esters: banana, clove, faint bubblegum. Very flavorful beer, great malt backbone that allows the yeast flavors to shine. Carbonation adds a creamy softness to the beer. Overall a great domestic Belgian ale, 9% abv is well hidden.

5/6/18
12 oz can, no bottle date - thanks Chris R. & Pep
4.5 rating

On draught at Wyoming Ale Works.

Pours a medium gold, small head of foam, good lacing for what the foam looks like.

Smells of light grain, cracker malt, kinda fruity hoppy.

Taste is light grain, hoppy as in somewhat grassy, hint of fruity. Pretty nice balance going on.

Fairly light bodied.

Whoa, $8 for a 16 ounce pint?

Took me a while to realize that there's a clove taste here. Additional enjoyment involved.