Avery The Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale

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

(Bottled) Almost clear amber with a small, bubbly head. Nicely aromatic, pine-hoppy nose with some alcoholic barley-wine feel. Flavor is strangely cinnamon-spicy, slightly stingy, not very hoppy, slightly smoother with yeast. Quite full-bodied with low carbonation. Not bad, but quite strange and slightly alcoholic.

(bottle@pikkulintu) this beer is better with yeast. Without yeast, the king alcohol eats all flavours

bomber. i just walked into a pine forest and licked every tree in it, then i just sucked the sap and chased it with alcohol and sucked on a hop to top it off. DAMN! it’s a biggie. avery is beginning to build its name on big ales that pack a bit of a punch. the ’08 version is a whopping 10.54 ABV, with 102 IBU’s. pine, grapefruit rind, honestly - just choking on citrus peel is more like it. this is big, bitter, and fairly offensive. don’t share with your friends...rather, horde for yourself. the only thing that is a slight drawback is the price. i’d like to cellar this for about 2 yrs and see how it holds up to the elements of aging. on the scale of ’ya got it or ya don’t’ it’s ’got it.’

Draught at Charlie Mopps Blondest double IPA I have seen. Nice malt characte with great hop bite.

Pours thick copper with a white head. Strong floral aroma. Very nice flavor, alcohol comes through a bit.

Bottle (22 oz.) @ home. Pours in a clear copper with a large off white head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy. Citrusy (grapefruit) and piney hops. The flavor is big bold hops with some sweet malts. Big bitter hop finish. Bold IPA with some balance. Up there with the finest DIPA’s out there. Very Nice.

Bottle. This huge malty ipa blew away my palate. An over done malted hopped up monster. haha double ipa night killed me.

First beer at cb six: a mistake. served in a tulip glass. Hazy orange color, very summery coloring. immediate hops aroma, strong and powerful as a maharaja should be. I would go so far as to say forceful hops aroma. This beer is a palate buster extrordanaire! Crisp and smooth with a flavor of orange and grapefruit rind. THe high alcohol lends it a sweetness in the follow-up, but the aftertaste is all bitter hops. A stand-up beer for extreme drinkers. I’ll take another please