Pizza Port Hop 15

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

Pizza Port can seem to do no wrong when it comes to the Hop. This beer is no different. It’s a hop bomb. A wonderful, delicious hop bomb. If you liked Frank, you’ll love this --- it’s sister beer.

0.65 l bottle at Konttori, Tampere. Orange color with creamy head. Sweet and hoppy aroma with pine, lemon, orange, grapefruit and mango. Very hoppy bittersweet flavor with pine, grapefruit, lemon and menthol. Fair amount of sweet chewy maltiness also but it does not mask the hops. Excellent pungent hop character.

Bomber. Thanks after4ever. Pours hazy copper with a lacy white head. Both the aroma and the taste have pretty much everything hops have to offer: Pine, grapefruit, flowers, resin, spice pineapple, etc. etc. The kind of beer that can make a hophead wax poetic.

pours a burnt orange color. lots of citrus hops and tons of pine. loved it.

botlte shared with faroeviking at ørsted, copenhagen. yespr and ungstrup gave me some of this few months ago also at ørsted, but that day i lost my notes. i remembered it being darn good, so i bought it as soon as i saw it in the fridge. cloudy orange, thick light orange head. piny and sweet hops, peach, dryness. very well composed hoppy aroma. hopy, dry, flowery, fruits in the flavor, malty sweetness, a hint of caramel, grapefruit, pine, ends dry and piny, accompanied with malty sweetness. a well balanced and hoppy thing. NICE.

Thanks to CelticBrew for sharing with DrBayern and myself! Light copper appearance with nice lace head that held throughout the tasting. Has a nice citrusy hop aroma that was pleasent, great mouth feel with a good bitter finish.

Pours a golden orange with an off white head. Head retention is very nice. Aroma is dominated by pine hops. Hops dominate this beer. There was so much complexity to this beer’s hop profile. Citrus and pine to name a few. End with some lingering hops along with some slight sweet malts. Amazing IPA.

Rating #600!!!

22oz bomber via South Bay Drugs. Gorgeous amber/rust combo comes out of the bottle, topped by a medium sized white head. Mostly lasting, the head leaves a thick edging ring of foamy bubbles once it does vanish, along with some nice coats of sheet lacing. Tons of carbonation bubbles race to the top of the liquid from the bottom of my snifter. Great looking beer. On the nose we have copious amounts of ruby red grapefruits, oranges, tangerines, lemon zest, pine cones, fresh cut grass and caramel hops. Fore is immensely and unforgivably bitter and astringent. Wow, I wasn’t ready for that level of bite. Had to sit it down and come at it again with a different mindset. One of the biggest straight off hop bombs I have tasted. Past that we have huge amounts of grapefruit, oranges, ripe citrus fruits, lemon zest, grass, caramel and pine. This thing must have a ton of hop resin, I’m sure, and it comes through instantly in the mouthfeel. Oily, slick, coating, everything you want in a IIPA. Towards the back end of the palate and into the finish, a crushed aspirin/metallic note rears up that becomes somewhat disconcerting considering every other facet of this beer is so well done. I almost think it can’t be helped with the amount of hops in this thing. In the end, it knocks down the flavor score from a 9 to an 8, because even if it is unavoidable, it is still there, and still unpleasant to my palate. Finish is bitter and drying, super lengthy, tons of resiny hops and citrus fruits, then some malt sweetness, then just a wave of bitterness that is almost indefinite. A few months in my fridge did nothing to this beer that I can see, it’s a freaking hop monster, and I love it for it.