Ale to the Chief!
Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.26
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Originally brewed to celebrate Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, Avery Brewing Company elected to give their beer Ale to the Chief a third term to commemorate the 2016 election. Rather than categorizing the beer as Imperial, Avery created a new beer style to honor our country’s democracy, calling the beer a Presidential Pale Ale. A brew worthy of the Oval Office!
”We the Brewers of Avery Brewing Company, in order to form a more perfect ale, require leadership that can liberate us from quagmires in foreign lands; embrace environmentally sound energy alternatives; continue healing our healthcare system; and unite the parties around this bipartisan brew. We hereby pledge to provide him or her with an ample amount of our Presidential Pale Ale whilst they achieve the aforementioned goals! Hail to the Chief!”
All-American pale ales are typically brewed with a bipartisan blend of malt and hops, both of which Avery increased before dry-hopping with a quintessential American hop, Cascade. Though this hop varietal hails from Washington the state, it was nominated to lead this beer due to its floral and citrusy persona. The malts share the power, with Caramel-120 malt adding contributing caramel flavor and color, Honey Malt for honey-like sweetness, and Dark Munich Malt bringing biscuity notes to the table.
This 8.1% alc/vol beer will be sworn into the Avery draft list on Monday, July 18, 2016.
Released in 2009 and 2016.
”We the Brewers of Avery Brewing Company, in order to form a more perfect ale, require leadership that can liberate us from quagmires in foreign lands; embrace environmentally sound energy alternatives; continue healing our healthcare system; and unite the parties around this bipartisan brew. We hereby pledge to provide him or her with an ample amount of our Presidential Pale Ale whilst they achieve the aforementioned goals! Hail to the Chief!”
All-American pale ales are typically brewed with a bipartisan blend of malt and hops, both of which Avery increased before dry-hopping with a quintessential American hop, Cascade. Though this hop varietal hails from Washington the state, it was nominated to lead this beer due to its floral and citrusy persona. The malts share the power, with Caramel-120 malt adding contributing caramel flavor and color, Honey Malt for honey-like sweetness, and Dark Munich Malt bringing biscuity notes to the table.
This 8.1% alc/vol beer will be sworn into the Avery draft list on Monday, July 18, 2016.
Released in 2009 and 2016.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
January 20, 2009 - inauguration day! Pours clear amber with off white head. Aromas of pine hops and sweet malts. Bitter pine hop flavor hits you up front with a sweet malty finish. The alcohol is apparent, but not too overwhelming. Medium body with average carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel. Hail to the chief!
Tried
on 20 Jan 2009
at 21:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz. bottle. It’s 10:00 the night before Inauguration. Bush has 13 more hours to pardon his entire Administration for their crimes against everybody. Time to celebrate! The Avery entry kind of wimps out in its theme by staying noncommittal, as opposed to the beer I’ll be rating tomorrow. But at least the beer looks nice. Pours an amber to gold color with a puffy, IPA type lightly gold head. Smell is a nice mix of American hops, more on the aromatic side. Taste affords a more direct trickle of hoppiness, full of grapefruit and pine, purely fresh Cascade. Malt is crisp and chewy, some stickiness to the lips, which does not keep them from almost burning with that big ol’ hop flavor. Yes, this should have been presented as an inaugural beer, but for whom? Obama is not as a big drinker, and McCain is living off his wife’s Budweiser distributorship money. Neither seems like the best candidate to install a world class beer list in the White House.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2009
at 23:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy orange copper with a medium frothy off white head that lasts awhile. The aroma is a very sweet hop with fruit and floral notes. Good sticky lacing on the glass. The taste is a sweet fruit malt with grapefruit and pine. Easy to drink hiding the alcohol well. A good American Strong Ale from Avery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2009
at 00:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a copper color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some minimal lacing. Aroma of C-hops is pretty strong and dominating with some nice clean citrus notes easily detectable. Taste is also dominated by some cascade hops with some clear citrus notes and a medium dry caramel malt body. Good carbonation with a full body and no alcohol was apparent. Nothing to write about home but very well done for the style nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2009
at 22:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz bottle. Pours a orange color with a small head. Aroma is slightly hoppy, with a touch of malt to it. Flavor is grapefruit, flowers, with a touch of malts and a warm citrus finish. Overall it is a strange, interesting brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2008
at 18:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Had this somewhere on our Manhattan and Brooklyn pub crawl great night, my ratings started to become a little less detailed when I realised it was session on and no mistake and this was case in point. Lyons golden syrup or some sort of inverted sugar, hoppy but sweet, thick heavy, but bloody marvellous. A7 A4 F8 P4 OV16
Tried
on 12 Dec 2008
at 14:13
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
22 oz bottle-pours a rich off white head that laces and amber color. Aroma is nice pine/citrus hops-cascade. Taste is nice pine/citrus-grapefruit rind raw hops-bitter, secondary/some medium malt-caramel. Great beer. Medium body. Semi-dry long finish. Thanks jwc215 for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2008
at 19:58