Avery IPA

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Boulder, Colorado USA

Date: May 05, 2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Norm’s, DC
Appearance: Clear copper, frothy white head
Aroma: abundent floral hop aroma
Flavor: big bold hop flavor, long bitter finish, light carmel malt body, a tad bit out of balance

Date: April 13, 2005
Appearance: ditto
Body: thin body
Flavor: very resiny

Date: August 11, 2005
Source: ww tasting
Score: ii to iii
Aroma: good sweet grapefruit aroma
Flavor: huge hop flavor, great sweetness, lasting bitterness

Date: February 20, 2009
Mode: cask
Source: Flying Saucer Houston
Score: 3.4
Appearance: hazy orange, creamy off white head like a merangue pie, sheets of speckled lace
Aroma: sweet grapefruit aroma
Flavor: big citrus flavor, just a touch of crystal sweetness is hidden by a big bitter presence
Overall: drier on cask with a big bitter presence

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Coppery colour. Grapefruity aroma, with slight toast. Refreshing, crisp, lemony, grapefruity character. Very dry. The aroma is nice as the glass goes but the palate reveals itself fairly simple. In the rotation but not top of the charts, as IPAs go.

Beautiful copper color with a giant head. The aroma is sweet, hoppy, fruity (oranges, grapefruit and apricots) and with some vanilla. The body is full, malty, almost chewy even if the gravity is not high, with lovely hop resins and good fruitnees; mellow feeling. At this ABV, excellent!

Clear amber with medium off white head. Hoppy aroma with citric and caramel notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with some caramel and grapefruit notes.

(1/18/06) Crystal clear golden body with rocky off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, some lemon. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, light lemon, caramel/cookie. Bitter, but not as much as I remember, though I last had it in the days before IIPAs. Medium body, quite drinkable. Excellent IPA, no letdown despite being a re-rate of one of my first 600 beers. (8/4/8/4/16)

(7/26/02) I know I’m a sucker for brews with big Cascade flavor, but so what! The aroma is strong grapefruit, letting you know what’s on its way. Flavorwise, this baby’s well-balanced, with a healthy malt backbone in support. A fine beer for those who like what it has to offer. (9/4/8/4/16)

1. On Tap at Jax Fish House, Denver 10/10/2007 Small white head. Some carbonation. Hoppy aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and citrus flavoured with a crisp and bitter lasting finish. 2. From the Bottle at TAG Restaurant, Denver 22/09/2009 Big citrus and pine hop aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and bitter with a little dryness in a crisp fruity grapefruit malt finish.

Bottled, alc. 6.3%
Golden color, good creamy, lacy head. Mild flowery hoppy nose. Medium-bodied, balanced aromatic hoppy flavor. Honeyish, floral hoppy atfertaste.

This IPA has a nice, warm golden color and a good head. The aroma is nicely hopped with notes of fruit and a bit of caramel. I find the same notes in the flavour, that has a nice bitterness. A nice one!