Avery Eleven

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Boulder, Colorado USA

22oz bottle. Thanks Moejuck! Hazy copper color with a cream colored, one finger head. Lots and lots of suspended particles. Aroma is citrus candy (amarillo?), brown sugar, some herbal & floral notes (cascade?), and some pine (centennial/simcoe). Taste is still plenty bitter, but there is a nice caramelly, malty flavor followed by a ton of citrus hops & pine. The finish is lingering piney bitterness and black pepper. A nice beer, this is a mix of hops that I enjoy, they each offer something a little different. On another note, I love fresh DIPA’s, but sometimes they gain a bit of character when aged.

This pours a cloudy brownish color with a huge white head. There were also a crapload of floaties and yeast in this. Aroma was of citrus, mostly orange, a little burning from alcohol, and I got a little breadiness. Aroma still seemed pretty hoppy for being 3 years old. Flavor was a little bitter, hoppy, and just seemed a little off. I wish I would have tried this in the prime.

Eleven? That’s one hoppier than ten, right? Pours a hazy copper color with an 18" thick clump of frothy off-white suds. Excellent thick lacing throughout the bottle. Smell the glove to pick up a mild but complex aroma with peach, caramel, and hops both floral and piney. Solid caramel and toffee malt up front, with licorice coming in at mid-sip and into the finish. On top of, behind, in front, and all around the malt, there’s hops, and lots of ’em. I am knocked out by their exuberance, their raw power - and their punctuality. Pine and citrus mainly, bold and bitter, then also a soft herbal flavor hops. The hops seem to grow in intensity as the bottle drains. For such a bold beer, the mouthfeel is quite smooth. Medium-full body, and the soft but prominent carbonation spontaneously combusts. Reviewed at a bit cooler than cellar temp in a St Hubbins goblet. So, are we doin’ Stonehenge tomorrow?

Hops and lots of sweet malts in the aroma.Pours very cloudy brown.Sweet malt stand out in the flavor.Very thick mouthfeel with a sweet finish.

From bomber. Pours a murky brown/orange with tan head. Nose is a spicy, syrupy, orange peel mixed with light caramel malt. Flavor follows with lots of bitter. Syrupy palate.

Bomber with gputty. Murky golden brown with an off white head. Sweet floral orange nose. Sweet malty orange, tangy at times, a tad sticky.

From 04. A citrus aroma and taste. Creamy mouthfeel. Orange taste. A hot sauce without the spice.

Deep hazy orange color with thick slighlty off-white head. Intense citrus aroma with lemons, orange and a hint of grapefruit, some malt hidden under all those hops. Flavor is very malty, carmelly with just a touch of toasty flavors. Strongly bitter and great citrus hop flavor. Great balance of malt and hops with just a touch of alcohol, mostly in the warming finish. What a great beer; ugly in appearance, but tasty as can be.