Avery Ale to the Chief

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

Copper color with a light yeasty cloudiness and a dense, creamy, off-white head sits atop it. Aroma has a strong citrus, pine and heavy bitterness, caramel sweetness, light cinnamon spiciness with an alcohol presence to finish it off. Flavor is an overall bitter one with pine hitting first, citrus next and a very rough bitterness rounding it out and a mild sweet caramel finishes it off. Beer is pretty bitter with it puckering your tongue, a really good density for the style making it feel heavy, a very solid alcohol note and leaves great lacing lines on the glass. Overall a really good strong and bitter brew.

Strong flavor, but average strong ale overall. Avery usually has good strong beers, this was okay

22 oz bottle. Clear golden orange with a thick rocky off white head that leaves some lacing. Sweet fruity aroma citrus, sugar and bubblegum. The flavor starts sweet and then fades to a long bitter finish, there is also a slight alcohol taste. Medium body with a soft syrupy mouth feel and average carbonation to help lighten it up. Almost like an IIPA but the hops aren’t quite there. I guess that’s why the almost generic "American Strong Ale" category. I would buy this again, I think fresh would be best for this one.

Bomber. Medium amber body. Large, off-white head mostly diminishing. The aroma is mostly hoppy with notes of grapefruit and apricot and modeately malty with notes of toasted grain. The flavor is lightly sweet and moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet, lightly acidic and moderately to heavily bitter. Alcohol jumps out in the finish. Medium to full body, smooth texture and lively carbonation. More a double IPA than an American Strong Ale because of the strong hop presence in both the aroma and flavor. And as a DIPA, it is farily one-dimensional, but solid nonetheless. Good balance between the malts and hops. Enjoyable.

22oz bottle: Golden red pour with an ever lasting, creamy head. The nose is all hops, a very tempting blend of orange, lemon and grapefruit citrus, rose petals and sweet grass. Thick and chewy mouthfeel. The malts really leap forward in the body - balancing the continuing hop onslaught. Creamy caramel and fresh bread, a little biscuit as well. Very smooth, drinkable and should age well.

Bottle-A pure impulse buy, though it was six months after the inauguration. The pour lead to an orange color of beer with a thick off white head. Lots of hops aroma leap from the beer followed by a base of caramel. The taste was mostly malts followed by the equal amount of hops toward the end. Great Stuff. Produce Place

Cloudy orange pour with decent head and little retention. Smell is sweet, chocolaty malts, but also strongly floral and hoppy. Taste is a little caramel and a good bit of chocolate malts, but with a strong hop finish that creates a very balanced brew. A good amount of alcohol finish too. I’m a big fan of this—good nose and taste, but also a beer with a lot of personality from the brewery. Awesome.

Bottle pours a hazy orange with a very think dense off-white head. Rich sweet carmel and brown sugar malty aroma. Like a BW. Modest malt flavor profile, a bit sweet, but not very heavy. Moderate body, and carbonation. Slightly bitter on the tail end. Sweeter and heavier than a Pale, not so big and bitter as BW. Less bitter and hoppy than I expected of a American Strong. Interesting middle of the road characteristics, if not undecided.