Avery Brewing sits at a crossroads: heritage, hype, and redefined ambition. Once fiercely independent, the Boulder stalwart now flows through the Mahou San Miguel current — merged under a shared U.S. platform with Founders and Mahou Imports. The corporate weave may have tightened, but Avery still wears Beer First like armor, its brewhouse beating stubbornly to the rhythm of experimentation.
Behind the glass walls of its 67,000-square-foot Gunbarrel campus, tanks hum and barrels whisper — a $30 million temple to scale, precision, and madness. Packaging lines fly at 220 cans a minute; sours and stouts sleep in oak like secrets. Meanwhile, the taproom pulses with live music, new art, and small-batch mischief — proof that even under structure, Avery remains defiantly alive.
This flight captures that tension: legacy and innovation, chaos and control, fire and finesse. These are the brews that define Avery’s modern mythology — where every pour is both history and heresy.
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Avery Brewing Tequilacerbus
7.3% ABV | Tequila Barrel-Aged Sour / Wild Ale
Not a beer so much as an experiment in civilized madness. Tequilacerbus was born from Suerte’s reposado and añejo barrels, where oak, agave, and wild yeast conspired for months. The result glows amber-bronze, a sensory duel of tart citrus, lime zest, and dusty barrel funk. Oak and vanilla brush the edges while apple skin and lemon bite through, finishing bone-dry with a whisper of agave ghosting in the aftertaste. This is Avery’s alchemy distilled — part sour sermon, part tequila séance, utterly fearless.
Avery White Rascal
5.6% ABV | Belgian-Style White Ale
Every dynasty needs a rascal. This unfiltered Belgian wit — spiked with coriander and Curaçao orange peel — remains Avery’s cheeky cornerstone. Cloudy gold and slyly aromatic, it balances wheat softness with citrus spice, clove, and honeyed grain. The body is satin; the finish, a crisp little grin. White Rascal doesn’t scream for attention — it charms its way in, the beer that made Avery a household name by proving that mischief can taste like sunlight and purity can still raise a little hell.
Avery The Maharaja
10% ABV | Imperial IPA
The Dictator Series’ crown jewel, The Maharaja is hop rule incarnate — a grand procession of Citra, Simcoe, and Amarillo sabers slashing through malt opulence. Caramel and toffee build the throne, but the real power lies in the bitterness: grapefruit rind, pine resin, a citrus blaze that lingers like decree. Amber in color, perfumed with candied orange and forest spice, it’s both brutal and balanced, proof that Avery’s imperial bloodline still conquers palates with grace and swagger.
Avery Double Barreled Maple Stout
15.3% ABV | Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
A cathedral of sugar and smoke. This double-aged behemoth slumbers first in bourbon barrels, then in maple syrup casks still sticky with ghosted sweetness. The pour is black glass and slow gravity — chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, and cinnamon orbiting maple’s molten pull. The finish glows with bourbon warmth, long and heavy as a sermon. It drinks like a breakfast gone holy: pancakes, firewood, and absolution in every sip.
Avery Tweak
17.5% ABV | Bourbon Barrel-Aged Coffee Stout
There are strong beers, and then there’s Tweak. Born from Mephistopheles and baptized in bourbon, this is coffee’s dark side in full bloom. Espresso, molasses, charred oak, and smoke rise like incense from the glass, each sip equal parts caffeine rush and bourbon lullaby. It’s viscous, volatile, and oddly elegant — a jet-black sermon whispered in espresso and flame. At nearly 18 percent, it doesn’t ask for reverence; it demands surrender.
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