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Avery Ale to the Chief 3.73 464

Avery Ale to the Chief

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4643.74/5.03.73/5.0Special8.75%81.3Snifter, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
We the Brewers of Avery Brewing Company, in order to form a more perfect ale, require a new leadership that can liberate us from our quagmires in foreign lands; embrace environmentally sound energy alternatives to imported oil; heal our ailing health care system; free us from tyrannical debt and resurrect the collapsing dollar. We hereby pledge to provide him or her with an ample amount of our Presidential Pale Ale to support in the struggle for the aforementioned goals! Hail to the New Chief!

Not an "Imperial" pale ale, this is a democracy. It's Presidential! Take the all-American pale ale, a bipartisan blend of malt and hops, increase to both Avery Brewing standards, and then, of course, dry hop the result with that most quintessential of American hops, Cascades, and you get this... Ale to the Chief. A brew worthy of the Oval Office! Brewed with Rocky Mountain water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

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 JohnnyJ (1353), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
May 23, 2009  
Pours and amber orange color, frithy white head. Nice lacing. There is a lot of grain in the IPA. I geuss thats why it’s and american strong.. Caramel malt, biscuits, bitter hops, citrus, grapfruit.


 Braudog (3782), Dayton, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/103/513/20
May 16, 2009  
Hoppy Birthday to me. This is opaque and a chewy-looking orange-brown brew. The aroma hints at a big chunky brew of goodness ... and sure enough, this is a gargantuan pile of flavors in a glass. Oddly the beer doesn’t have a lot of body to go with the thick flavor profile, but there’s a mess o’ hop, pine, tar, and maybe even a little melon in this. (#3539, 5/16/2009)


danem (12), Bothell, Washington, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
May 16, 2009  
Bottle from cellar. Pours a cloudy amber with dense off white head. Aroma is citrus and fig, rather sweet. Taste is balanced between bitter hops and a sweet caramel. Almost like a little brother to a good barley wine. Very pleasant, I could drink a lot of this.


 drseusszb200 (218), Florida, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/103/518/20
May 15, 2009  
poured amber with a nice white head. smelled like hops and citrus. taste is a sweeter citrusy, hop taste. gotten on draft at the ice house pub


 trevor211 (526), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 14, 2009  
Tasted as part of the Avery Experience at Brouwer’s. Adam Avery was on hand, and he described this as a "jacked up Sierra Nevada pale," and said "we dry hop the shit out of this thing." Hops are there, but the really predominant note is citrus. Sweet, flavorful mandarin oranges, with some tangerine / satsuma, too. It’s a very bitter ale, but bitter like citrus rind, not like it’s been hopped a bunch. The flavor is full enough to counter what otherwise might have been a dilute brew. Tasty.


 petematte46 (227), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
May 6, 2009  
Pours hazy gold with white head. Aroma is fruity citrus hoppy, malty, wet graham cracker. Flavor is hoppy, slighty peaty with wet graham cracker, bitter (burnt leaves) and syrupy.


 zizzybalubba (405), Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/517/20
May 5, 2009  
22 oz. bottle from Seaboard Wine in Raleigh (Batch 2, I believe based on purchase date, bottled November 2008). Dark orange pour with a fluffy white head. Rich pineapple aroma; dominates over any other aromas. A hint of peach in the aroma as well. Taste is much of the same but with a nice malt backbone and a bitter hop finish. An outstanding beer even at 6 months after it was bottled. Try it if you can still find it.


 thejon375 (392), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
May 4, 2009  
Hazy amber in color with a thin white head. Aromas of bitter hops and caramel. Tastes of roasted hops and grilled pineapples. Finishes crisp, clean and bubbly. Try it most definitely.



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