Pizza Port Hop 15

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

22oz bottle. Cloudy copper/amber pour with a thin off-white head. Very crisp hop aroma with a bit of malt. Incredibly citrusy hop flavor with malt and some alcohol in the finish. I expected this to be good, but it was incredible.

From AlohaC, as a freaking gift. Thanks again to you Christian. Pours a murky, unfiltered looking brew.This was a marvelois beer. Loads of tropical fruit, mango and kiwi, mixed with a massive dose of resiny hoppy goodness. This was the kind of beer that I found my self staring at the glass after every sip.

Hazy amber pour with nice creamy golden head. Sweet, hoppy, malty nose. Aromas of tropical fruits such as mangos and papaya. Flavor showed bitter hops, caramel, grapefruit peel, and present alcohol. Waxy palate. Good stuff.

prfound indeed. i have written down "very west coast IPA" haha, so maybe i am developing a palate for beer after all. lots of carbonation and lots of hops (duh), citrus and pine, very bitter finish. coulda been more.. entertaining...

Draught at lupulin slam: Dark amber orange. Aroma: citrus, grapefruit, lemon, pine, pineapple. Taste: lemon, citrus, caramel, grapefruit. What makes this beer is the small amount of discernable caramel to counter the hops - if only slightly. 7/3/7/3/14. Re-rate at 2006 Lupulin Slam 7/4/8/4/16, updated to reflect latest rating.

Reddish amber pour with good head retention. Pretty clean. Ripe Ruby Red grapefruit nose mixed with lots of piney hops. Grilled pineapples in the tatse. Nice finish, a bit pithy.

22 oz bomber; purchased @ South bay Drugs. The first bottle i had of this beer i didn’t even finish my last glass. It was that strong, and I didn’t want to go to bed to lit up. First note worth mentioning of this fine IPA is the copper colored body with creamy topping of head displayed. Also shows some sediment floating around but very minor amounts. The drink is a strong delivery of hops, sour grapefruit, grain, grass and hot alcohol. The same can be said about the nose with perfume aroma of pine and hop. Finished rather dry with a decent aftertaste of metallic taste. This is such a strong beer that the experience is heavy like eating a dish of hot spicy food—a sweat is created.

Bomber.

Pours a rich orange with a modest head. Powerful orange-peel hops aroma with ample herbal tones as well, caramel malts coming through. The flavor is elegantly balanced between gently sweet and substantial caramel malty tones (but not falling into the cloying IIPA trap) and lovely pine-resin grapefruit hop goodness, leafy on the close, mouth-drying on the tongue and alcohol warmth down the throat. Smooth, full mouthfeel, rich and oily but not offensively sticky.

I’ve been in a rut with IIPAs and even IPAs lately, getting a little bored, I suppose, and maybe this boredom dulls my ability to tell a 4.4 from a 4.0. But whatever my inclination toward this style might be at the moment, this is clearly a superb beer. It might even be the rare IIPA that can stand some aging. That would be a fun experiment...