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Chaotic Double IPA
Twisted Manzanita Ales
- From:
- Twisted Manzanita Ales
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 14.25%
- Reviews:
- 33
- Ratings:
- 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
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, 2016Clear 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.
Reviewed by Tone from Missouri
4.06/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
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, 2016Rated by LukeGude from Iowa
3.15/5 rDev -15.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev -15.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Overly bitter
Feb 13, 2016Reviewed 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
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, 2016Pours 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.
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
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, 2016Reviewed by DavidS333 from Virginia
5/5 rDev +34.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
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, 2015Chaotic 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.
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
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
Chaotic Double IPA from Twisted Manzanita Ales
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
147 ratings
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