12 Color Rainbow
Clown Shoes
- From:
- Clown Shoes
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 5.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 21, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 21, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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An experimental West Coast-style double IPA oozing with hop flavors from Centennial, Columbus, Galaxy, and and a healthy dose of Dank & Stormy from Hopzoil.
ALC/VOL: 8%
IBU: 50
Hops: Centennial, Columbus, Galaxy
Specialty Ingredients: Dank & Stormy from Hopzoil
ALC/VOL: 8%
IBU: 50
Hops: Centennial, Columbus, Galaxy
Specialty Ingredients: Dank & Stormy from Hopzoil
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.55/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.55/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
RB transfer
Sep 21, 2025
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.96/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.96/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Clown Shoes Beer "12 Color Rainbow"
16 fl. oz. can "pkg 327 11/22/21 18:13"
$4.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is a west coast style double IPA at 8% brewed with "dank & stormy HOPZOIL". I'm not familiar with HOPZOIL but I'll assume its a hop extract, and given the amount of beer that's lost to dry-hopping I think it's entirely sensible to use something like this. I used to use cryo hop which give you half of the plant material of regular hop pellets but they cost twice as much so I'm not sure what the savings really was. If you can get away with using a hop extract you wouldn't have any loss. Anyway, the "12 Color Rainbow" has poured a somehwat hazy deep amber colored body with an orange sheen. The head is a finger's width of slightly off-white foam. I was really hoping for a bright hop aroma as my last beer was a letdown but this is pretty much the same. It's herbal, piney, grassy, a little bit "dank", mildly citrusy and floral, and just a touch spicy. That's nice and everything, but it's mild. In fact I still had some soap residue on my hands that I was smelling more than the hops so I had to go rinse them off really well. There are plenty of pale ales on the market that have a stronger hop aroma. On to the taste... well there are more hops there but not a whole lot. It remains very much like the aroma. It's piney, herbal, grassy, dank, and fruity with notes of orange, guava, peach, and a hint of lemon in the background. The malt is bready, subtly toasty, and lightly caramelish and honey-like which works well with the note of orange. It's got a firm bitterness and it finishes mainly dry as a dollop of malt quickly fades leaving herbal and piney hops to linger. Looking back the head held up OK and it left some minor lacing about the glass but both should have been better. I also notice that the label reads "12th Anniversary Release", just to note. In the mouth it's medium bodied and gently crisp. All in all I'm fairly happy with it. It's nicely balanced and rounded, and the choice of hops works really well with the choice of malts. There's nothing all that exciting here but it's a solid IIPA to kick back with.
Review #7,878
Apr 13, 202216 fl. oz. can "pkg 327 11/22/21 18:13"
$4.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is a west coast style double IPA at 8% brewed with "dank & stormy HOPZOIL". I'm not familiar with HOPZOIL but I'll assume its a hop extract, and given the amount of beer that's lost to dry-hopping I think it's entirely sensible to use something like this. I used to use cryo hop which give you half of the plant material of regular hop pellets but they cost twice as much so I'm not sure what the savings really was. If you can get away with using a hop extract you wouldn't have any loss. Anyway, the "12 Color Rainbow" has poured a somehwat hazy deep amber colored body with an orange sheen. The head is a finger's width of slightly off-white foam. I was really hoping for a bright hop aroma as my last beer was a letdown but this is pretty much the same. It's herbal, piney, grassy, a little bit "dank", mildly citrusy and floral, and just a touch spicy. That's nice and everything, but it's mild. In fact I still had some soap residue on my hands that I was smelling more than the hops so I had to go rinse them off really well. There are plenty of pale ales on the market that have a stronger hop aroma. On to the taste... well there are more hops there but not a whole lot. It remains very much like the aroma. It's piney, herbal, grassy, dank, and fruity with notes of orange, guava, peach, and a hint of lemon in the background. The malt is bready, subtly toasty, and lightly caramelish and honey-like which works well with the note of orange. It's got a firm bitterness and it finishes mainly dry as a dollop of malt quickly fades leaving herbal and piney hops to linger. Looking back the head held up OK and it left some minor lacing about the glass but both should have been better. I also notice that the label reads "12th Anniversary Release", just to note. In the mouth it's medium bodied and gently crisp. All in all I'm fairly happy with it. It's nicely balanced and rounded, and the choice of hops works really well with the choice of malts. There's nothing all that exciting here but it's a solid IIPA to kick back with.
Review #7,878
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