Chaotic Double IPA
Twisted Manzanita Ales

Chaotic Double IPAChaotic Double IPA
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From:
Twisted Manzanita Ales
 
California, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
10.1%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.72 | pDev: 14.25%
Reviews:
33
Ratings:
147
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jul 29, 2016
Added:
Jun 27, 2011
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  19
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Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania

4.07/5  rDev +9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz can into glass

Clear dark golden in color,, big white head. Minimal lacing. Nice earthy hop aroma and a little bit of boozy malt. Taste is well balanced, not too bitter, good flavor. Sticky mouthfeel.
Jul 29, 2016
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Reviewed by Tone from Missouri

4.06/5  rDev +9.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a hazy, copper color. 1/2 inch head of a white color. Great retention and great lacing. Smells of strong alcohol, strong citrus hops, strong piney hops, slight sweet malt, and hop resin. Fits the style of an American Double / Imperial IPA. Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with a low carbonation level. There is also a strong bitterness and slight dryness. Tastes of alcohol, strong hop resin, slight piney hops, slight sweet malt, and a hint of citrus hops. Overall, good appearance, aroma, blend, and a decent body and feel.
Jul 21, 2016
 
Rated: 3.22 by Donkster46 from Washington

Jun 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.66 by AngEo from Texas

Apr 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by Furley80 from Pennsylvania

Mar 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.07 by AlaskaAg from Florida

Mar 17, 2016
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Rated by LukeGude from Iowa

3.15/5  rDev -15.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Overly bitter
Feb 13, 2016
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Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina

3.52/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12 oz can into a Sierra Nevada glass.

Pours with a clear copper colored body topped by a decent off-white head.
Moderately strong hoppy aroma with a strong hop flavor favoring citrus notes -- lots of citrus. Ample malt here too, leaving the beer just moderately+ bitterness and adding some caramel and faint baked bread. Still, this is markedly hop dominant, as expected for style. Lingering, fairly strong, bitter grapefruit peel aftertaste.

Medium body with medium-high carbonation and a dry finish.
Jan 10, 2016
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Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri

3.66/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured out a clear, orange color with amber highlights and a two-finger, khaki colored head of foam. Smelled of caramel, toffee, pine and floral notes. Good roasted malt flavor and piney bitterness, but too much sweetness.
Jan 08, 2016
 
Rated: 5 by lgkiii from California

Dec 28, 2015
 
Rated: 3.18 by MonkeyBread from Nevada

Nov 15, 2015
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Reviewed by DavidS333 from Virginia

5/5  rDev +34.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Chaotic Double IPA is a Double Imperial from Twisted Manzanita Ales. It froth level is medium to thick on scale of light/medium/thick. The froth is a nice usual froth color mixed with a brown sugary color. The smell is flavorful, and well spiced. The body is medium to thick on the medium side or half way between, on a scale of light/medium/thick. The color is of a nice rich amber color. Darker in the center of the glass, and lighter around its edges.

Chaotic Double IPA is a sort of Double's Double if one will. It has that rich hop flavor, somewhat thicker texture than your usual beer, and a nice darkish color that Imperials/Doubles sometimes have. The taste gets stretched out per se, as one drinks it more slowly, and one can hence in such a way get a better sense of the layers of hop flavor that enhance this beer's drinking experience.

When one holds the beer in the front of ones mouth one can sort of sense that sort of pillar of tasty hop richness at the base of ones tongue, but one gets the sense of their being sort of a lighter hop flavor on top of it, sort of like warm water sitting on top of cool in the ocean. As one takes the beer back into the mouth, along the edges of one's tongue, one gets to see the sparkle of different hoppy flavors that were hiding in that sort of veil of lighter hops on top, and the richness of those lighter hop flavor sort of come to life, and enrich the sort of swallowing per se of the beer.

The aftertaste is light, and almost reminds me of a hoppy flavor tinged with a little bit of rose-water or something like that, its quite nice and definitely unique.

Chaotic Double IPA is a really good double, it has a unique sort of flavor profile, but still sits in the Double IPA sphere per se, with a sort of integrity to the type of beer per se. Overall a really good beer, very rich in flavor, even if some of the flavors are subtle, and ultimately very drinkable.
Nov 02, 2015
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania

3.53/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a dark golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of tropical fruits, malts. Taste is tropical fruits, alcohol, resin, malts, a bit more alcohol, considerable bitterness. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall a good beer, but a touch on the boozy side.
Oct 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.44 by epyon396 from Pennsylvania

Oct 16, 2015
 
Rated: 3.07 by RBassSFHOPit2ME from California

Oct 04, 2015
 
Rated: 4.39 by therubicon from Delaware

Sep 17, 2015
 
Rated: 3.81 by mcthfg from Korea (South)

Sep 16, 2015
 
Rated: 3.61 by Songminx2 from Korea (South)

Sep 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.94 by Lobina from Arizona

Sep 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.64 by LADaveBN from California

Aug 24, 2015
Chaotic Double IPA from Twisted Manzanita Ales
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 147 ratings