Avery Summer’s Day IPA

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Pours slightly hazy dark orange, with nice stark white head on tap at the brewery. Aroma has nice balanced notes of citrus with tangerine, grapefruit notes, going into some pine and grass, nice biscuit and caramel to balance. Taste is similar with notes of pine and grass, some nice orange, tangerine, even a touch of lemon, with some spice notes, biscuit and toffee, finishing fairly bitter. Nicely done, the addition of the tangerine really balances out the pine well.

Tap @ brewpub. Yellow-orange appearance with a cream colored head. Citrusy, piney hoppy nose. Really a nice lemon-tangerine citrusy, piney hoppy flavor. Nice, easy drinking, citrusy IPA.

Tap at Avery. A bad motherfucker of an ipa. Orange pour with a big, sticky head. Awesome citrus aroma. Orange peel, tangerine, sweetness. Flavor is just a nice with a crisp, bitter citrus bite in the finish. Yum.

(Draught during GABF week at the brewery) rich orange/amber with long lasting creamy medium tangerine pour. Nose of candi sugar, candied orange, spices, brown sugar, awesome, and lightly funky. Taste with lots of tangerines, earthy and resinous citrus peel, awesome sweet balance to back it all up. Very creamy finish, sweet and bitter linger. Highly drinkable.

(Draught) Pours a clear orange body with a medium cream head. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, and caramel. Flavor of orange, pineapple, mango, caramel, florals, and tangerine with moderately bitter finish.

Tap at Avery. Pours clear copper with a large, creamy cream-colored head, with good retention. Aroma is average malt (bread, cereal, meal), heavy hops (floral, grassy, pine, citrus), light esters (apple/pear) with notes of peach and pineapple. Flavor is average malt (bread, meal, cereal), heavy hops (floral, pine, citrus), average esters (apple/pear) with notes of peach. Medium body, carbonation, and creaminess, high carbonation, dry and biting finish.

On tap @ Avery. Sampler poured copper yellow. Light malt nose touch of pine and citrus. The flavors are kind of a mess. Bitter pine that’s cloying and unbalanced. Syruppy malts boozy alcohol. Hard to finish. 7/3/6/3/13

redish gold pour, thin head. The apricot comes through up front and then the piney bitterness shows through. Very long bitter finish is a little unpleasent. An ok IPA. Not sure how many I could have considering the bitter finish.

UPDATED: SEP 10, 2010 On tap @ brewery. Clear golden yellow with a light white head. Smelled a bit like a Belgian--floral, hoppy, and a little bitter on the nose. Smelled some citrus in there too. Taste was pretty hoppy and bitter, but no balance. It was sharp and more than a little like pine. Earthy hops and maybe some lemons were the main flavors I could gather. But to me, it’s all for naught if it’s not going to be balanced with any sweetness. Medium bodied with a pretty crisp mouthfeel, and a modeately bitter finish.

Draught. Orange/red with tan head. Aroma is grapefruit, biscuit, dirt, floral notes, and airfreshener/cleaning solution. Flavor is also brighter fruits and floral, lighter in body with big aggressive hops and decent booze presence.