Pizza Port Big Wednesday Belgian IPA

Brewed by Pizza Port (Solana Beach)
Style: Belgian Ale
Solana Beach, California USA

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.

Orange, lemon, flowers, cream soda, vanilla, smooth and rich but not heavy. Just absolutely delicious, could drink it all day. I’ll be back in Solana Beach for more tomorrow.

On tap at Pizza Port. Cloudy yellow with a creamy white head. Grapefruit, lemon, and flowery hop aroma. Velvet slightly sticky palate. Passion fruit, lemon, and orange taste with floral nectar notes throughout.

growler trade 1.0 from riversideAK. !muchas gracias! pours golden with a small white head. this smells awesome!. aroma is every kind of hops you could ask for combined with yeasty spice and a light sweetness. like burying my head in a pillow of floral hops. flavor is packed with citrus, pine/rosemary, grass, apricot and belgian yeasty spice. the finish is dry though there is no real sweetness to begin with. medium body and carbonation but it has an incredibly buttery palate.

Hazy golden. Aroma of yeasty spice and west coast IPA. Citrus, floral, and pine hops. Flavor is clove, fruity, yeast with a nice herbal bitterness in the finish. As it warms the yeast and spice take over the hops and a nice balance is created. My favorite of the night. Light on the palate with nice bitterness and a slight touch of alcohol.

Killer feeling beer on the palate. I love it. It is almost buttery and creamy for a belgian, but the profile of flavour and aroma is accentuated by a delightful hopping. I wish they would make bottles of this.

Tap@ Port Solana Beach: Pours bright and clear with appropriate effervescence. Too cold to get much Belgian character at first, but after 10-15 minutes, a beautiful flowery yeast nose emerges. Hops on the grassy side dominate the body, well-balanced esters on the finish.

Clear gold pour with a deecnt white head. Cream, vanilla, lemons, orange candyin the nose. Taste is strangely great. Dominant yeast esters, bubblegum, and lemons; almost like a trippel or a German hefe. Teh hops kick in later in the glass as it warms. Apricot, grapefruit, and tangerine, but no real pine that I could taste. Smooth, velvety mouthfell. Nice.