IPA
Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.25
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Avery IPA demands to be poured into your favorite glass to truly appreciate the citrusy, floral bouquet and the rich, malty finish. Brewed by hopheads for hopheads!
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 9/25/11
Aroma: The nose is fairly hoppy with some nice resin, grapefruit, and pine notes to it
Appearance: It pours a slightly cloudy orange color with bright white head that leaves spotty lacing
Flavor: The taste is lightly sweet, and heavy bitter with similar components to the nose
Palate: The body is medium (leaning full), and it has a sticky mouthfeel that is on style
Overall Impression: This was one of those "are you kidding me I haven't rated that?" beers. Now it is not. I'm enjoyed Avery's IPA before, but I guess I haven't posted a rating on any of those prior occasions. A very solid IPA, that is what it is trying to be. Right on style, and rather well-made.
Aroma: The nose is fairly hoppy with some nice resin, grapefruit, and pine notes to it
Appearance: It pours a slightly cloudy orange color with bright white head that leaves spotty lacing
Flavor: The taste is lightly sweet, and heavy bitter with similar components to the nose
Palate: The body is medium (leaning full), and it has a sticky mouthfeel that is on style
Overall Impression: This was one of those "are you kidding me I haven't rated that?" beers. Now it is not. I'm enjoyed Avery's IPA before, but I guess I haven't posted a rating on any of those prior occasions. A very solid IPA, that is what it is trying to be. Right on style, and rather well-made.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2011
at 15:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @Sadonkorjuu, Porvoo. Poured clear golden with a nice lacing head. Tropical fruity aroma, slightly sweet, but maybe not very fresh. Flavor is pine, grapfruit and malt. Refreshing but again not very crisp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2011
at 03:02
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Average orange color, nice white head. Really good smell, fastastic hoppy and grapefruit taste. Average body, good carbo.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2011
at 02:38
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Paradiso Dupont, courtesy of Greg - thank you sir! Pale yellow color, thick white head. Aroma of wet grass and light citrus. Taste is bright citrus with very nice balance and a smoothly bitter finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2011
at 05:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz can into tulip. Pours a slightly hazy gold with a medium white head that dissipates in a couple of minutes; leaves some soapy-looking lace. Aroma is both piney and biscuity; I also get grapefruit and strawberries. Taste is bittersweet, but it’s the sweetness here that makes this beer stand out from the previous two IPAs I drank right before this. It’s not a cloying caramel malt sweetness, but something much more interesting. It’s a bit reminiscent of Belgian candi sugar. Carbonation is medium-high, body is full. A really nice IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2011
at 21:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber with a near white head. Low bead. Aroma is as much herbal as citrusy with some meadow elements. Taste has lots of sweetness before pretty big bitterness where pine emerges amongst the other hop aromatics. The bitterness stops the sweetness from playing too much of a role, but it’s still a bit too cleanly sweet for me. Still, a good hoppy beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2011
at 05:02
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark, hazy straw color with a medium beige head. The aroma is butterscotch, resin, and faint citrus. The flavor is creamy and sweet up front, but quickly transitions to a strong bitter flavor. The palate is light to medium and astringent with a long, sticky, bitter finish. Overall, a good IPA for hopheads, but not very well balanced or subtle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2011
at 18:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 355ml @ Patricks Pub og Restaurant, Kristiansand
Pours cloudy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, bread, citrus and grape. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours cloudy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, bread, citrus and grape. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2011
at 06:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ the brewery. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is fresh bitter hops, grapefruit and orangepeel. Taste is floral and fruity hops, again grapefruit, kiwi, lemonlike finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Very nice and refreshing IPA. 270311
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Mar 2011
at 10:17
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Still smiling from the novelty of drinking Avery beer from a can. So I’m a consumer. Sue me. If only I had a bottle to do a side-by-side. Bitter but not too much so, citrus-tinted but with enough of a pine-straw finish to assure its IPA-dom. Gorgeous, too, bright orange-gold and clear. Always a good go-to beer in a clutch situation; Avery IPA is sweet enough to please the meek, but the lingering dry finish is all hophead.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2011
at 18:16