Chameleon
Scantic River Brewery
- From:
- Scantic River Brewery
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 3.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 25, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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We have created another delicious easy drinking DIPA for this fall called the Chameleon. No two batches are the same and the Chameleon will change with the seasons. We're sure you will enjoy!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mikeinportc from New York
3.98/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Batch 10 or Batch 19. Print is slanted & not all there. Time of canning, but not date. ???
Let sit out for 10 minutes or so, before opening.
Hazy orange, with a little over one finger of off-white head, that leaves a thick ring, and streaky sheet of lacing.
Smell is dank apricot and bready malt. As head dissipates another fruity smell develops , that of.......persimmon...., yeah persimmon(ish), but sharper. Maybe persimmon+peach pit.
Taste is bitter orange (the raw fruit, the one that is made into marmalade) , apricot, but less apparent than in the aroma, and resinous pine. Moderate bitterness. Lurking in the background is an old-school DIPA malt backbone, that is of similar qualities as those types, but less obvious. As it warms, a bready note becomes apparent. Maybe this needs a little more time to meld flavors?
Feel is heavy-medium and juicy, with moderate, very fine, soft-ish carbonation. The palate is left feeling coated. No apparent alcohol , until some internal warming, about halfway through.
Overall, seems a hybrid of old-school DIPA with juicy NEIPA. Has the bitterness and malt backbone of the former, and the frutiness of the latter. The bready aroma detracts slightly, but otherwise, solid.
Dec 23, 2021Let sit out for 10 minutes or so, before opening.
Hazy orange, with a little over one finger of off-white head, that leaves a thick ring, and streaky sheet of lacing.
Smell is dank apricot and bready malt. As head dissipates another fruity smell develops , that of.......persimmon...., yeah persimmon(ish), but sharper. Maybe persimmon+peach pit.
Taste is bitter orange (the raw fruit, the one that is made into marmalade) , apricot, but less apparent than in the aroma, and resinous pine. Moderate bitterness. Lurking in the background is an old-school DIPA malt backbone, that is of similar qualities as those types, but less obvious. As it warms, a bready note becomes apparent. Maybe this needs a little more time to meld flavors?
Feel is heavy-medium and juicy, with moderate, very fine, soft-ish carbonation. The palate is left feeling coated. No apparent alcohol , until some internal warming, about halfway through.
Overall, seems a hybrid of old-school DIPA with juicy NEIPA. Has the bitterness and malt backbone of the former, and the frutiness of the latter. The bready aroma detracts slightly, but otherwise, solid.
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