Avery Ale to the Chief

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

96??? Really?? Guess I have no taste. Thought this stuff was boozy to crap! What a dud......I did drink it though

Pours a cloudy dark amber color with a thin off-white foam head that quickly settles into a thin lasting ring that streaks the glass with spots of soapy lacing. Crisp floral hop aroma with subtle hints of citrus and earthy pine as well as a strong caramel malt presence. Nicely balanced and very quaffable considering he high ABV. The malt backbone is a bit too strong for my liking but it provides nice balance to the dry earthy hops. Earthy pine and sweet citrus notes. Slightly dry finish.

22 oz bottle. Smells pleasant, not at all overpowering. Looks like peach iced tea. Definitely near the top in taste for such a strong ale. Yeasty but not alc-y. Pine and bitters keep it from being fruity at all, to me. Lingers a bit like stale bread though. Awesome brew but tastes more like a Mondale in my opinion!

22 oz bomber from the brewery. Pours golden orange with big foamy head. Hop aroma has died leaving mostly caramel but some earthy pine notes. Only a touch of sweetness then a pleasant floral bitter finish.

Consumed on Inauguration Day A golden amber tinted medium brown liquid. Two fingers of creamy light tan colored foam. Great retention and excellent lacing. Good mix of citrus and pine hops. Big pine notes are combined with big, lush, tropical notes. Nice pineapple presence. Slight presence of caramel sweetness. Big grassy notes. Decent notes of yeasty bread. It really smells delicious. Not nearly the hop bomb that the nose had me prepared for. Still a good hop presence, just not as dominant as expected. Main component of taste seems to be big, butterey, yeasty bread. It has faint traces of caramel on it. It’s been dipped in pine sap and some sort of tropical/citrus juice. The whole thing is covered in fresh, green, grass. Feels thin, crisp and sharp. I like beers to be more full and lush. Lightly sticky. Fairly decently drinkable, overall. Although, for me, I think that I prefer to smell it.

Amber/rust hue with light tan creamy head, nice lacing, smells of orange peel with alcohol, some citrus hop but covered up by sweetness and malt, tastes and smells like there is more alcohol than actually is, as there is stong metallic alcohol finish, nice complexity, almost a little bit like a barley wine and a hint of skunkiness.

22 oz Bottle -- Pours cloudy burnt orange with an off-white head. Heavy citrus, and malt, with some hop aroma. Relatively sweet with the hops not emerging until the mid palate. Bitter back-end but the sweetness lasts along with it.

Poured nice rich amber, with an off white head. Nose with good amount of hops, but taste of the hops was very covered up by the excess in malt, especially bready. Decent, but not the best.