Avery Ale to the Chief

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

22oz - Aroma of sweet pale malts and crisp pine resin hops. Pours transparent copper with a nice fluffy head and great lacing. Flavor is a lighter match to aroma. Sticky tart palate. Nothing revolutionary but voted as a nice tasty brew.

Bottled. Beer is clear, medium brown with a small, off-white, frothy head. Mostly diminishes into a scraggy mist and a creamy ring around the snifter. The aroma is very hoppy with heavy notes of resinous pine, grapefruit oil, iced tea and a trace note of lemon zest; Malty with light notes of toasted grain and cookie; Light woody/spicy note. The flavor is heavily bitter, moderately sweet with a long, moderately bitter, lightly sweet and acidic finish. Long resinous aftertaste and some astringency hangs on. The body is medium, the texture is syrupy and the carbonation is average.

This poured a nice red color with an off white head. Aroma was citrusy hops, some malts and some metallic notes as well. Flavor was mainly nice mellow piney hops with some citrus notes held up by a big strong sweet malty backbone. A pretty good ASA

L:Thick off white yellowish head. The color itself is a fantastic crystal clear amber orange. Very sporatic tiny little bubbles. S:Holy crap, insanely pungent fresh pine needle hops. Just a touch of citrusy grapefruit. Very mild candy apricot sweetness. T:Whoa, there come those pine needle hops I smelled. Rich and vibrant pine needle hops just continue to pound your sense through out tasting this beer. There is a little bit of wheaty maltiness to balance out those hops. M: Tight sharp little bubbles keep pounding the sides of your mouth. Yet the beer still feel rich and fat. Very nice round feeling D: Very cool beer. Not much balance involved. Just hoppy goodness on top of hoppy goodness. Very good.

This ale pours a amber-burnt orange color with white and off-white variable sized creamy looking bubbles, there is a faint haze of fine particles in this ale, a fine layer of sediment on the bottom of the bottle, aromas of citrus hops, malt sweetness with some fruit fragrances, lots of hop bitterness, pale malt and malt fruit flavors with sugar sticky sweetness, faint caramel, I noticed some very faint alcohol flavor in the background as the ale reached room temperature, a hop bitterness and alcohol warmth is present after the finish, has a full mouth feel, nice drink, not a blow out but very nice.

Golden-amber colour and a bubbly head. Explosive piney, citrusy nose with cantaloupe and orange peel. Bright orange taste with a hint of kiwi, florals and grapefruit. There’s a bit of sweetness, but not cloying (maybe a little crystal?). Finishes with more refreshing hops and a slightly sticky malt underpinning.

Got a growler at Whole Foods beer bowery and almost drank the whole thing straight away. Wonderful beer.

Poured a clear effervescent amber with a fizzy/frothy white head. The aroma is rich and inviting with notes of grapefruit and orange with some notes of sticky candy and undertones of refreshing pine. Flavor is refreshingly bitter with notes of orange peel and some ruby red grapefruit with some fresh pine. Some sweetness is in there as well. Not as heavy as I expected it to be... a nice body but just the refreshing flavors I wanted from this. Surprisingly complex yet light and drinkable. I enjoyed this.