Pizza Port Big Wednesday Belgian IPA

Draught at Boulder Strong Ale Festival. Pours hazy dark yellow with an average, fizzy, white head, lasting with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (hay, straw, bread), average hops (flowers, grass), heavy yeast (dough, earth) with notes of grape, pear, apple, peach, coriander, and ginger. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter-dry finish. Average duration, light sweetness and acidity, moderate bitterness.

On tap at Boulder Strong Ale Fest poured a hazy gold with a small lingering white head. Aromas of peach, tangerine, pine orange and cookie. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a fry finish. Flavors of peach, apricot, light orange and cookie with a smooth dry moderatly bitter finish.

Crushed with Jakebra at BSAF. Eh. Kinda boring IPA. Pizza Port should stick to awesome American-style IPAs. Not even interesting. Thin, some hops, but nothing much else.

On tap at Pizza Port in Solana Beach. A well-done Belgian ale - IPA is a bit of a stretch, but hey, you know me - I’ll drink it, and lots of it at that. Pours golden-yellow with a white head. Aroma is yeast, citrus, and mild floral hops. Flavor is yeasty with some citrus. Hops noticeable but not as big as I expected. Creamy mouthfeel.

(Draught) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of mustiness, lemon, yeast, and florals. Flavor of hops (citrus, resiny, earthy, pine, passion fruit, apricot) and Belgian yeast.

Draught at GABF 2008. Clear yellow - white head. Flowery, nice hoppy, sweetness, belgian style, wheaty, light malty, light soapy, white bread. OK.

This is the most fascinating beer that I tried at PP. Big aroma of banana and cloves AND hops! Mouthfeel is sweet and spicy, AND HOPPY! Cloudy and unfiltered with an almost orange tint. I was blown away. It is such a clever beer, one which I’ve wondered if it would work, and am pleased to find out that it does.

On-tap at PP SB. Pours cloudy, banana yellow with a nice, creamy white head, good lace. Smells sweet and banana yeasty with a nice, mellow, slightly bitter hop presence. Tastes more bitter and hoppy than it smells, sweet and bready too. Lingering hop, grass bitterness. Medium body, good carbonation.