Tighthead Brewing Company Chilly Water Pale Ale

Chilly Water Pale Ale

 

Tighthead Brewing Company in Mundelein, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
7.14
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 40 Ticks: 8
Our wheat-based American pale ale drinks like an IPA but without all the heavy malt sweetness and alcohol, making it an ideal session beer. Citra and Amarillo hops provide an aroma and flavor of mango, tangerine, and other soft citrus fruit and American Ale Yeast ferments Chilly to crisp refreshing finish. Enjoy all day with no need for panic!
 

Sign up to add a tick or review

Join Us


     Show


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

7574 16
Opaque, Hazy, Burnt Orange Que Color, Huge Dense White Foam Head, Creamy Top, Good Retention, Drippy Rings of Lacing. Malt, Mellow Hop Aroma. Wet, Malt, Slight Resin, Moderate Hop Bitter. Same in Aftertaste: Wet, Malt, Slight Resinous Notes, Hop Bitter. Nothing Stands out to Remember...Just OK.

Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2025 at 01:15


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

O'Hara Airport, Hub51, T5. Dark golden colour and small white head. Resiny, piney nose. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Nice resiny, piney hoppyness. Citrus too. Lots of flavour for 4.8% pale ale.

Tried from Can on 19 Apr 2025 at 16:03


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Can shared at work. Pours a deeper golden with white head. Nose is citruses and light stone fruits. Taste is mid to high bitterness, showing citruses, light grassy notes and some pine. Closes with a dry finish, has a light body and soft to average carbonation.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:19


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pint can from Deli Lama, 10/9/22. Hazy orange, large off-white head, good retention. Aroma of leafy hops, lime, grapefruit. Taste is green, peppery, leafy hops, pale malt. Juicy, low bitterness. Decent.

Tried from Can on 27 Oct 2022 at 02:36


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Aroma is similar to the Irie IPA. Flavor isn’t as rich or balanced though. Body is summer haul a little thinner. The regular IPA is much better.

Tried on 05 Jan 2017 at 23:39


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft. Loads of tropical and citrus hop notes dominate. Some nice pine and a hint of toffee in the finish.

Tried from Draft on 04 May 2015 at 23:57


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pint at Lockdown in Chicago. 3.50 on special. Dark, hazy amber. Clean clear hop aroma but the hops are all over no one dominant hop flavor. Same in flavors. Clean and hop centric but the mix of hops doesn’t work for my tastes.

-- rated with beerbasher/winphone

Tried on 31 Mar 2014 at 16:49


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Draft at Tap House Grill, Westmont. Finally get to pop the cap on another recent Chicago brewer. I found myself really liking this and thinking it was a Double IPA. Let me count the ways: a sudsy IPA head over a bright, brassy body. I thought I was just getting a snootful of Mr. Cascade Hopp and his lupalin friends, not having a full description of the beer in front of me. But definitely a very fresh hop beer. Bold taste combining pine, resin and citrus. Lemony aftertaste from the hops, but still matched by plenty of big malts.

Tried from Draft on 18 Oct 2013 at 22:00