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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Johns Marketplace in Portland, OR. Coppery amber color with a three finger off-white head. Nice hoppy aroma over a touch of roasted caramel. Almost medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is rather hoppy, with some bready malt. Hops seem floral. Lots of bitter. Malt and hop seem to balance. Makes me think of drinking cream. Cream? Hops? That computes? Just had Pliny, so I may be prejudiced in the numbers, but this is damn good ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2008
at 21:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22oz bomber from Perfect Pour pours a slightly translucent, amber, orange with a creamy, thin, lacing white head that settled into a thin ring around the glass. Pleasant, hoppy aroma that is mostly pine and grapefruits with a little bit of biscuits and crackers hanging out in the back. Flavor has more sweetness to go along with the citrus flavors of orange and grapefruit, pine, sweet candies, a little bit of toffee and some brown sugar. Finish has some citrus bitterness and is a little watery despite the heavy alcohol. Pleasant, enjoyable offering from Avery if not a bit generic.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Sep 2008
at 18:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pour is bright orange with a soapy white head. Aroma is nice with some sweet malts bit a big citrus pine. Flavor has a fruity melon with some chocolate malts and a crisp citrus hop. Finish is very bitter and leaves a rye on the tounge. A very tasty beer and each sip brings something different.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2008
at 16:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours clear amber with a smallish off-white head. Aroma of earthy and spicey hops lots of malt to and some alcohol. Taste is very fruity and earthy with notes of melon, wood, and caramel. Syrupy mouthfeel, light bubbles.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2008
at 13:14
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at the Day Before Labor Day party. This beer is a clear and bright reddish-amber color with a medium thin off-white head that dissipates steadily. Stringy lacing. Aroma of toasted malt, floral hops and citrus. Medium-bodied with a piney/floral hops character and flavors of malt, nuts and citrus. The finish is hoppy and leaves a lingering citrus aftertaste. Aside from a little astringency here and there this is an enjoyable beer overall.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2008
at 16:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber. Have to say that I laughed a little when I read the botle. What if a beer could be president? Pour is a coppery amber with a big and fluffy white head. Big hops presence in the aromas: pineapple and grapefruit lead the charge with some sweet malts lingering in the background... but a little underpowered to poke through the cloud of hops. First sip leaves a great impression. Hops from the nose come through crisp and clean... but don’t overpower the malt too much... so it comes off as pretty balanced and doesn’t come off as a watery hop tea. This is pretty darn good.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2008
at 23:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at the Mellow Mushroom in Tampa. Pours clear deep copper with off white head. As usual it is being served way too cold to enjoy and I don’t have an extra 20 minutes today waiting for it to warm up. The aroma is candy sweet slightly caramelized malts mixed with sweet tangelo, orange peel and a note of pine hops. It’s just too darn cold to get a good read of the aroma. The bitterly cold liquid ushers in a very pleasing flavor combination of sweet citrus orange and tangelo juice along with a solid sweet malt backbone. Big bold late addition citrus hop flavors make it seem rich and delicious. Then the hops only becomes moderately bitter into the finish. Terrific IPA. It is too much on the rich and luscious side to be a sessionable type IPA but that’s not why I’m drinking it.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2008
at 22:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours deep orange amber into a tulip. White head quickly recedes to hug rim leaving spotty lacing. Orange and grapefruit aromas. Crisp, sweet oranges upfront turning to a full, dry, lasting grapefruit and alcohol burn finish.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2008
at 18:12