Avery The Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Excellent example of a DIPA. Classic look. Outstanding flavor. Deep malts and intense piney hops with a citrus grapefruit back bone. Damn, I just love this style. 4.5

This beer is even better than I remember it which is amazing in itself. Pours a perfect deep orange clear color with a think shaving cream white head. The aroma is out of this world. Your nose is basically having sex with hops. Rich, resinous, piney hops, along with grapefruit and orange citrus. The flavor is exactly what you want is an IIPA; full of grapefruit resinous hops and a huge malt backbone. This massive amount of hops in this beer is so well balanced with huge biscuity malt sweetness. I am a hop head and an IIPA lover and this is no doubt the best there is out there of this over produced style. Adam Avery is a genius!

Greatest IPA ever made. If you haven’t had the maharaja and you have the ability to get it you are a FOOL. If you can’t get the maharaja you should live in a constant state of depression and feel the whole deep inside your soul. Go find this beer and become one again.

Style and Glass: DIPA, Tulip, Snifter ABV, Volume & Calories: 10.21% in 22 fl oz. estimated at 400 C Purchased at: Canal’s Burlington for about $6 Aroma: exhilarating, pine, grapefruit, citrus, lime, spirits. 10 out of 10. Visuals: beautiful label design, rich, copper, brilliant, thin white head, breaking lace. 5 out of 5. Taste: beautifully balanced, heavy malt, heavy hops, great strength, high craft. 10 out of 10. Palate: high quality, smooth texture, long mild finish. 5 out of 5. Overall: My favorite style bar none, and an exemplar of it, I’ll repeat it most definitely, a favorite, highly affordable pleasure, masterfully crafted. 20 out of 20.

On tap at Tustin Brewing Company.. I looked for reasons not to give this a 5 but I really couldn’t find any. On tap this was the perfect beer... Pours copper with a creamy white head that leaves a nice lacing.. Aroma was amazingly floral and piney with a nice malt sweetness.. Flavor was piney with hop resin and a nice caramel sweetness.. Medium bodied with medium carbonation.. I would have probably drank myself stupid on this one if I didn’t have to drive.

If you enjoy a full bodied, thick punch of citrus and floral hops to the face give this beer a try. I bought a bottle at a local liqour store in hopes of finding a little more bite than the Great divide hercules double IPA and i walked away satsified.

Brew pours a beautiful, almost hazey, tawny golden color w/ a full, semi creamy froth. Head retention is textbook. Lacing is sticky and dense resembling a thick down comforter. Aromas of charred hops and obese malts . Full nectar w/ soft residual effers that create a chewy, creamy texture. Huge hops meet fat caramel. Perfect balance, perfect timing. Everything hits you square in the eyes at the same time. A generous brew w/ classical qualities. Truely remarkable, and quintessential in style. The finish is balanced and long w/ a deep seated hop shard piercing my tongue. Highly recommended.

i thought this beer was quite nice. golden brown color with a mushroom tawny head. huge nose of pine and citrus, very aromatic. flavors push into a heavily balanced beer of more citrus grape fruit and spruce...very resiny hoppy flavors flurish bounce on the backbone of a malt crunch. subtle berry background as well. big ass beer. you know it aint weak, however, there is no real alcohol burn on the slide. very well made beer. re-rate: had this on draft at avery and it was fricken outstanding. the nose was phenomenal huge piney eucolyptus leaves with a citurs background...my favorite of the day and one of my favorites of all time!!!

Pours orange with a white head. Aroma is heavenly. Citrus hops explode featuring the grapefruit with some sweet orange and lemon notes behind it. Flavor is a glorious sweet grapefruit hop with orange and lemon flavors mixed in. This one has quite a bit of hop character, but the citrus flavors combine with it to make it a true beauty.