Avery The Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale

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

really wonderful coppery golden pour with a nice white head Nice carbonation to just push the aromas up Nose of toffee, pine, resin, pineapple, spicy (peppery) and alcohol notes (slightly underwhelming in this are) Flavor: tangy and juicy hop flavor dance along with some toffee, toasted malt notes. Alcohol is right there as warmth and no distractive. Fruity esters like pear and berries work heard to peek thru the hop flavors. I like the bitterness profile - huge but not tongue numbing (over the top resiny is not my favorite) Palate: Just right amount of carbonation to keep the beer from becoming cloying. The finish is very interesting, at one loaded with hop flavor, then changing from toffee to pears, alcohol and then again drying hop flavor yum!!!! Overall: A fantastic DIPA from Avery - A definite MUST TRY for hop lovers especially those who dont mind a nice malt backbone to a good DIPA. 2008 Sample just a little let down in the aroma ... the high FG and 10.5 gravity puts it in the sipper and beginning to be barley wine category - just right for a father’s day Sunday afternoon treat after sweating it out in the back yard

Has a burnt orange and amber hazy pour, a creamy, frothy head of a mix of white and off-white bubbles that I enjoyed seeing in the glass, good deal of bubbles (effervescence) floating up along the sides of the glass, leaves a trail of creamy lacing on the glass, nice big malt and sweet aromas on the nose when first poured, faint alcohol fragrance, there are whiffs of flowers and tall grass, light fruit, citrus and orange skin with some pine needles and faint vanilla fragrances, nose is complex, I like it, big hop, malt sweetness that has toasted malt and a faint fruit flavor, I can feel the alcohol on the palate, there is very little taste of alcohol but the warmth is there, and the hop bitterness is pretty intense, mouth feel is more then medium, appears to be a complex Impy IPA, I prefer it when it is cold/cool out of the bottle, as this warms the hops really mount up and the malt flavor takes a back seat, and it appears the malt looses its’ complexity? (thought this was odd, warming up should expand the malt flavor) the alcohol grows to but this is a 10.54% ale, good double IPA.

Everything was strong about this beer, the presentation, the aroma, the body, the flavor, the alcohol. I was blown away at first by the full hoppy flavor of the beer. Once it got warm the flavors melded a bit and began to work nicely on the palate and all the way down. Fantastic!

This is one of the best IPAs I’ve had. What keeps this beer from being a 5 is a subjective desire for a little more flavor; give me some spice or a hint of something that I’m not used to, and it could be perfect. That being said, this is a great beer.

Amber pour with a nice citrus piney hops aroma. Wonderful hoppy bitter taste. A good IPA.

pours a hazy orange color and has an orange taste up front. followed by sticky and syrupy piney flavor. massive flavor, not for the weak of heart

Thanks Goudy, Bottle: This is like drinking the forest floor. Aroma and flavor are intense spruce pine. Citrus rind. Coniferous head. Slight buttery quality to the hop. Lingers on the tongue for quite some time. Bit warm.

February 2008 Bottle, Batch 7. Pours a translucent golden orange with a pale head and some really nice lacing. The aroma is very, very piney with lots of grapefruit and sweet pear. Much like the aroma, there is a lot of pine in the flavour as well. A well rounded caramel sweetness lingers in the back with the more subtle pear notes. Grapefruit is very up front almost right next to the pine. Towards the finish, the sweetness surprisingly lingers around for a little while, slowly becoming overpowered by the bitterness. Pear lingers on alongside with the sweetness and fades around the same time. Grapefruit and pine lasts a little longer before straight up bitterness just outlasts everything else. Mmm, delicious.