Avery duganA

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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If you like this beer you should really try El Toro Deuce. They are very similar. Big bitter and resinous hops.

What a treat! It is so hard to find this tasty beer outside of Colorado, but anytime you can get your hands on some, grab as much as you can and run

Oh what can I say besides that this is my idea of a near perfect IPA. Big hoppy bite when you take that first gulp. And gulping is the only way I enjoy a palatial monster like Avery Dugana. I get really excited when I pour the Dugana because I know I’m in for a treat.

Outstanding growler choice from Greenville Beer Exch. Rich, flavorful taste. Highly recommend.

Pours a murky orange, with a huge pillowy white creamy head that breaks apart like hot marshmallow. Lacing is superb. The nose is pineapple and the taste is true to the nose. Rich luscious pineapple is dominant. I love this beer! Super refreshing with just a touch of bitterness. 8.5abv is almost non-existent. Fantastic. After I finished the beer, thick foam lacing was left from top to bottom. What a great beer.

Typical DIPA appearance, with an ultra clear , pale golden body, and large and durable head consisting of rather gigantic bubbles. The smell of hops was apparent even before I tried to bring the glass close to my nose. The aroma was very piney and citric, as it should be for a DIPA. The taste was a showcase for the hops as the spicy, resinous, and citric qualities of the hops were apparent from the moment the beer passed the lips. The malts were in the background imparting a butterscotch hard candy like sweetness. The mouthfeel was very sticky and the resulting tongue coating made of a long lasting hop aftertaste. A hophead’s wet dream, and the scantily clad Indian beauty on the label isn’t half bad to look at either :)

Avery Brewing Company--duganA IPA India Pale Ale--2011 22 oz. Bottle. 8.50% ABV. 93 IBU’s. (4.75 / 5.0) IPA--Imperial. Thick pour. Dense lacy small rocky light orange head. Tight small bubbles of rich fizz cloud bright pretty orange gold color. Rich floral grapefruit pine herbal earthy hop front. Rich creamy mild sweet cloying resinous malty bitter hop pine mild fruit ester chewy earthy body. Big balanced clean rich hop spice smooth refreshing end. Wonderful rich nourishing dangerously drinkable DIPA. Sampled 3/27/2011. Purchased for $7.49 @ The Ballard Market, Seattle on 2/28/2011.

Pours a beautiful IPA-gold with a nice off-white head. Nose gives me a super-hop kick of pine, sticky and full of hops. Nose reminds me of Hopslam. SUPER bitter on the tongue and it hangs around. That’s a bruiser! I’m getting a bit of pineapple on the back end that’s really nice with this. This is a beer that will stand up to anything.

Multi-dimensional hop flavors, aromas and bitterness produce a complex hop profile in this beer. It’s rather intense, though, so you really need to like highly hopped beers to truly enjoy it. Malts are just fine as they are, and the hops completely own the stage, but they should. duganA has strong elements of grass, flowers, pine and citrus, with fragrant notes of grapefruit and tangerine lingering well into the aftertaste. Meanwhile, a bold, grassy bitterness with a hint of orange rind loiters on the tongue. It’s a rare feeling, but I actually felt my insatiable hop craving being satiated while drinking this beer. Even after sampling hundreds of IPAs, this one somehow brings something new to the table, and I think it’s great.

Hops, hops and more hops! However, this was a multi-flavored herbal hop taste and not just bitterness. Has enough malt to provide a balanced taste and body. Pretty, rich amber color.