Ballast Point Brewing Company Manta Ray

Manta Ray

 

Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating
Score
7.34
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 70 Ticks: 74
We’ve developed many IPA recipes in our R&D program, but right from the tank, our Manta Ray Double IPA was a winner. Aromas of fresh, citrusy tangerine, melon and light pine leap from the beer and linger over a smooth finish. Like its namesake, this brew can sneak up on you – a big beer without a bite.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Gold n color with a nice foamy head. Taste is citrus, grapefruit, pine with a bitter finish. Aromas of tangerine, melons and pine

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:12


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can from Joe's Wine and Liquor, Memphis. Piney and fruity hops with citrus, sweetish orange, pine resin, tropical fruits, grapefruit, malt, some caramel, and a light floral touch. Flavour is above moderate sweet with a bitter finish. Body is above medium. Wonderful IIPA from Ballast, the way I like it: In your face resinous and tropical fruits with a firm bittersweet flavour. True San Diego quality.

Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:17


8

It's been a this kind of day beer. A double is so fucking needed right now.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:41


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

Bottled. Orangeish golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, some apricot, mild wooden and some nectary notes with some bready malts. Flavour is fruity, floral, apricot, wooden, nectary and some crisp maltiness to it. Smooth and refreshing DIPA.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2022 at 19:01


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

Bottle, 0.355l. Aroma is resinous, caramelly, ripe stone fruity and floral. Pours cloudy amber color with thin creamy off-white head, poor lacing and soft visible carbonation. Taste starts medium sweet caramelly and resinous, following is dried fruity, citrusy, piney and medicinal, mouthfeel is warm alcoholic, while finish is strong bitter. Medium to full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Mantastic…

Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2021 at 21:41


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

355ml bottle. Slightly cloudy, orangey golden colour with small to average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Piney, grassy and citrusy fruity, minimally perfumed, hoppy aroma, notes of fresh hay, weed, grapefruit, lemon, some resin, orange peel, lemon zest, a touch of almond. Taste is bitter, citrusy, grassy and slightly piney hoppy, sweet-ish, biscuity, pale malty, notes of lemon, grapefruit, some resin, woody pineapple, a touch of almond, grapefruit peel, weed; lingering, bitter, minimally mineral finish. Slightly oily texture, dry palate, medium to fine, mildly prickly carbonation. Crisp, refreshing, highly drinkable - good.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2021 at 20:01


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

1st December 2019
Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is minerally crisp and semi dry. Light malts provide just a modicum of sweetness and an unwelcome touch of caramel. Hops are quite bitterish, much of the bitterness coming from citric peel, mostly orange but a touch of grapefruit in there. Crisp pine. Light finish leaves a bitter linger. Old school dipa but undeniably hoppy.

Tried on 01 Dec 2019 at 19:36


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

12oz bottle picked up at Safeway in CA. Pours clear golden with a small white head, light lacing. Fruity, grapefruit, pine resin. Nice

Tried from Bottle on 19 Sep 2019 at 05:46


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

Fat på Örebro Ölhall. Något mörkare guldfärgad med smutsvit krona. Old school dubbel-IPA med citrus, granskott, kåda, etc.

Tried on 21 Jul 2019 at 11:27


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

April 2019. MGM National Harbour. Draft.

Tried from Draft on 11 Apr 2019 at 00:19