Pizza Port Hop 15

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Marcos, California USA

Grassy meadow notes with orange and pineapple in the nose. hazy orange with brown in the edges and a creamy 2 finger head that settled to a dense 1/2 inch. beautiful. more sweet ripe orange in the sip with mango and passion fruit, and a swirl of bitter intensities in the finish. the solid malt foundation approaches sticky but is scrubbed down by the abrasiveness of the hops. This really is amazing.

Pours with a nice head, quickly dissipates. Slightly cloudy copper. Nice hops flavor, some grapefruit citrus comes through. Intense but not overpowering. Alcohol is very well masked. Excellent.

Light amber/orangey color with a big fluffy off white head. Decent lacing down the sides of the snifter. Huge, sweet, tropical hops dominate the aroma. Grapefruit, pineapple, orange, pine, and a slight grassiness all rush forth from the complex variety of hops used in this beer. A perfect amount of caramel malt backs up the hop onslaught. The hop bitterness is appreciable but not overdone. Very well balanced. Smooth and a bit thick, good dry hoppy finish. The 10% kinda snuck up on me, but this was enjoyable til the end. Another great Port beer.

draft at O’Brien’s in San Diego - Pours hazy copper with a substantial citrus hop aroma. The flavor is crazy hoppy, definitely on the hop intense side of even this style. It’s a good, crisp, strong hops, though I’d like it even more with a little better balance. It has a long, bitter finish.

IPAs and Double/Imperial IPAs have become a big favorite of mine, right up there with stouts and barleywines. This was part of an evening that was favored with several excellent examples. Nice deep amber/copper body with a foamy off-white head. Nose held strong pine and citrus hops laced with a sweet maltiness. That maltiness did battle with the hops in the flavor and lost the battle. This was not a balanced beer but that is not a negative. This is a full-blown Hophead’s dream. A refreshing, tasty, thoroughly enjoyable beer.

on tap-pours a retaining creamy white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is citrus-lemon/grapefruit hops (cascade, Amarillo). Taste is dry/raw citrus-lemon/grapefruit hops (cascade, Amarillo), faint malt, alcohol. Big. Sipping.

22oz. bottle by way of hellbilly. Sweet, fruity, citric aroma, plenty of fresh pine and grapefruit combined with a generous amount of honeyish, toasty malts, along with lighter notes of lemon, caramel and flowers. Translucent medium amber color with a fine, off-white head that lasts, generating a thin sheet of intricate lacing. Very nicely balanced flavor profile, with a pronounced malt undercurrent providing a sweet, malty, toasty framework for the massive dosage of citric, piney, floral, fresh, grassy hop flavor and equally huge bitterness, this increasing towards the finish, blending with burst of pineapple sweetness, doughy yeast and peppery alcohol, and thereafter drying out considerably. Creamy, smooth and warming on the palate, has a thin feel to it that accentuates the resinous hop quality. Full-bodied to be sure. Nicely done.

650 ml bottle from Bevmo. Pours a slightly cloudy rich copper color with a one finger off-white head that last a while. The aroma is strong and layered with citrus fruits (mostly grapefruit, some lemon and a little lime.) The flavor, like the aroma, showcases the citrus fruits, but it does not stop there--also apparent is vanilla, caramel, pine and cotton candy. All these flavors are set in a biter hops backdrop that makes for a wonderful complexity. The mouthfeel is full, smooth and creamy. The finish is long and sweet with vanilla and hops. Overall: One of the great San Diego IPA’s. Recommended.