Pizza Port Hop 15

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

Pours a clear orange color into the tulip with an inch of white, fluffy head. A ridiculous scent of hops here. Pine needles, grass, earth tones, orange peel, grapefruit with a slight honey scent. A very overwhelming hop experience on the palate. Very complex with new hop flavors becoming apparent on each sip. A slight hint of malt and barley to finish.

Drank from Tap at Carlsbad Pizza Port. Served by the beautiful tatooed Melanie. Little head made lacing hard to see. Wonderful sweet hop aroma. Caramel orange color. Great balance of bitterness and sweetness.

Pours a gorgeous orange haze with a small creamy head. Big floral smell. Sweet citrus taste with a nasally hops sensation. Finish fades away with a smooth bitterness. Almost buttery texture/taste. No harsh aftertaste. Wonderful.

Tasted at Port Brewing Carlsbad & Lost Abbey (notes from memory). Deep orange in color this had wonderful aromas for a hop-head. Lots of citric and piney hops along with a carmel-ladden malt hit to keep it balanced. Great weight and power on the palate. Only suggestion...don’t try and bring a growler on a plane as the TSA may unwrap it from its triple bubble wrap, which is additionally wrapped in clothes and placed in the middle of luggage to leave it unwrapped on the very edge of the bag...which, of course, is thrown around by the baggage handlers until the growler breaks leaving your clothes wet and smelling like Hop15. Okay, so the smell is good, but try wearing a sticky shirt!!!

Pours deep orange with very little head. The beer is opaque - cannot see through it. Aroma is hops, pine, and citrus. Taste is the same. Mouthfeel is good and thick but could use a little more carbonation. Goes down very smooth with slight alcohol burn and some bitterness. This is a very fine IPA, no doubt.

22 oz. bottle from South Bay. Pours dark orange, exactly what you would expect from a DIPA. Heavy hop aroma. Notes of pine and fresh grass with some pineapple. Taste is a bit disappointing; more sweet than citrusy. I had hoped for a big pineapple or grapefruit flavor but I’m not getting it. Finish is moderately bitter and very sticky (which I like). Great, but not as great as expected.

The bottle I got said nothing about Pizza Port - just called Port Brewing Hop 15. Cute cartoon of hop bombs falling from airplanes on the (otherwise not too attractive) label. Orange amber pour with a bit of spotty lacing. Amazing aroma with forest, honey, and floral tones - mmm. The flavor is likewise excellent - zippy, herbal hops mixed with some malt syrupy sweetness. Plays around nicely on the palate and exits with a dash of grapefruit bitterness and a splash of perfume. No complaints about this brew! Hey hopheads, over here....

Poured a 22oz bomber into a Tulip Glass. Pours a nice orange with a small white head with some nice soapy lacing. Smells like Pine Hops and Citrus, mostly grapefruit. Nice mouthfeel, a little oily. The balance between the Sweetness, Malt, Citrus and the hops is perfect, Bitter yet Sweet. Yin and Yang. Also the ABV is well hidden in this one as well. I enjoyed this one a lot.