Front Street Port City IPA

Brewed by Front Street Brewery (NC)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Name: India Pale Ale
Date: 12/17/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear golden, creamy white head, solid lace, sweet grapefruit aroma, creamy body, rich malt flavor, lots of grapefruit balanced with caramel sweetness, a bit of butterscotch reinforces the sweetness, sweet and creamy hop delivery vehicle, best beer on the Carolina coast

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4
-------- /> Date: 04/12/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Hickory Hops

Appearance: hazy orange, bif creamy off white head, drippy lace,
Aroma: big sweet crystal malt aroma with lots of floral and citrus hops plus a touch of earthyness,
Flavor: sweet caramel and crystal malt flavor, lots of balancing hops, nice citrus character with lots of earthyness, nice long bitter finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Draft at brewpub. Clear dark copper with a nice lasting head. Aroma is caramel malt. Flavor is cereal-caramel on front and slight hops on finish. Light-medium body. Slightly better than average IPA.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours bright gold with white head. The aroma is lemon and bread withs ome citrus notes. The flavor is lemon and pine hops with crackery malt. The finish is bitter with slight grass.

on tap @HopfestNC-pours a white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is citrus hops. Taste is citrus hops-some bitter, secondary medium malt-sweet. Light/medium body. Mild carbonation.

oured a subtle copper color. Very much transparent. Head of white foam that quickly dissolved. Nose was essentially non-present. Picked out just a slight hint of hops. Flavor was very subtle for an American IPA. More akin to an English style with an amped up hop bill but not particularly bitter or powerful. Malts quickly overpowered any real bitterness. Medium mouthfeel. I have a hunch this would be quite nice if served on cask and dry hopped.

Pours a golden color with a white head. Has some lacing. Has strong hints of hops. Finshes light bodied with a bitter piney hop taste.

As ’Port City IPA" at the 2007 Hickory Hops. Clear copper, niced sized beige head. Clean, crisp resiny aroma. Very refreshing. Fairly piney at first, and a bit of smoke in the end. Dry, earthy finish.

"Port CIty IPA" pours a dirty straw color with a tiny head. The appearance saddens me, but then the other characteristics more than make up for it. Intense aromas of piney grapefruity hops. Subtle grassiness. Quite enjoyable; I could smell this for hours on end. Smooth IPA with pine-drizzled grapefruit; dry-hopped I would bet with all the hops lingering on the palate. Ample bitterness. An excellent drinker. If need be, I would drive the 4 hours to Wilmington just for this beer.