Avery Eleven

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

Thanks to Blake for sharing this 1.5yr old IIPA. orangish color w/ some brown hints HUGE frothy foamy white head w/ some thick lace. Grassy hop fairly clean and big pine pieces as well some light carmels and a hint of alcohol. Fairly full palate lightly oily. Flavor is well aged very even flavored hops are in the flavor but not dominating a bit subdued. A good amount of grass and pine needles w/ a nice carmel back. Very good.

Decent aroma. Cloudy brown color, some head that disappates after a minute. Pleasant flavor, nicely bitter. Decent body, and the right amount of carbonation. This is pretty darn good.

Very Hoppy, but not as hopped up as some, not sure what the "double" means exactly. Not bad, but nothing to rave about.

2004 bomber consumed on 11.23.05. Pours with an absolute immense amount of deep beige head that is very hard to contain. Even just a slight pour yields three to four inches of head. The bottle has been kept in perfect conditions, so this is not too surprising. Color is a dull bronze-amber, with some light mahogany-beige notes, clear and filtered, but with some sediment falling out of solution. Aroma shows pine soil, pine sap, lemons and sugar, limes, grapefruit, caramel, toffee and more resin. Not a whole lot of complexity, though the intensity of the pine has decreased I would imagine, having more of an earthy, dry, old chewy sentiment about it. The flavor confirms this. Chewy/sticky texture of pine resin, dry and lightly acidic, with light grapefruit, lemons and some caramelly sugars. Low to moderate carbonation, but yet the bubbles are large and hugely expansive, way too much so, giving a frothy, airy texture. Drinking more than half a glass proves tiresome to the palate, being cloyed from the lack of complexity and piney dryness. Caramel malt does little to break up the monotony, while some dry, earthy notes that just seem dirty and out of place. Alcohol is well-concealed and only lightly warming.

Glad they retired this one. Nose is rather simple, just some piney hops and maybe some vanilla, the malts arent really noticed. Taste is not that great, a huge blast of bitter hops follwed with a rather weak body and a odd astringency. Maybe some honey as well. Where are the malts?

Thanks to my Secret Santa for this beer.

Poured a clear amber with a thick creamy white head. Aroma of citrus, butterscotch, caramel, and yeast. Taste has a lot of caramel sweetness with a bit of citrus hop bitterness. The hops have really mellowed in this, leaving a lot of malt sweetness for the style. Would have loved to try it fresh, but I was glad to have it any way it came.

Bottle. Copper colored with nice head. Apricots and sweet malt in the nose. Malty and a bit sweet with a hoppy flavor and a long finish. Gives a slight hopburn. Very good and balanced but i miss some hop freshness in the bottle I got. Soft texture in the mouth. Some alcohol reveals itself as it warms.

Wife spoted this beer in a liquer store while on vacation in Wisconsin last week. Aroma was of the citrus hop IPA. Body was a perfect copper color with an off white frothy creamy head that stayed with the beer till finish. Great laceing also. The grapefruit citrus flavor was awesome. Reminded me of when I had my first Dogfish ipa that that was the best. Well this is better by far. Some alcohol present but not that jawlock like some high octane beers. Good dry citrus aftertaste on palate. Man my wife is a beer god.