Pizza Port Ripper English Pale Ale

(Draught) Pours a clear amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, and roasted grain. Flavor of caramel, grass, and earthiness with a dry, bitter finish.

Draught at San Clemente. Pours clear brown with an average, fizzy light brown head, somewhat diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (grain, meal, cereal), light hop (herbs), average yeast (sweat) with notes of wet paper and apples. Light to medium bodied, thin texture, average carbonation, and a metallic finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

On tap at San Clemente. Pours with a burnt hay colored body and a bone colored head. Good lace. Aroma of soap, bread, hay, grain and earthy hops. Taste is grainy with toast, bread and light indistinguishable (hop wise) bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel.

From tap at the Carlsbad brewpub. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Crisp fruity hops aroma, light herbal touch. Dry hoppy base flavour. Subdued caramel malt base. Bitter and floral to fruity dry flavoured finish.

on tap at toronado, san diego. dark orange color with a malty hop caramel and lemon aroma. Somewhat flat hop bitter taste. Really liked the aroma.

On tap. Clear deep golden with an off-white head. Very discreet aroma - nothing much happening really. Medium body, fruity with a dry and bitter finish. Well. 060709

Draft in Carlsbad. A pale golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, hops, and spices. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hops, spices, and herbs, leading to a dry and very bitter, hoppy, and spicy finish. The body is light.

Draught at the brewpub. Copper with a white head. Lots of herbal spicy and woody hops in the aroma, along with some darker bread crust. Toasty and light caramel malt flavor with some almost bunt bread crust and a resinous bitter finish. Pretty well balanced, but the finish is definitely on the dry and bitter side, with a pretty complex malt flavor pretty much giving way to the hops. Medium-light in body with medium bobbles helping the hops out. There are English hops all over the aroma and finish of this guy. Tasty, and surprisingly not seemingly enjoyed as much by most other people. I think they are dialing this in with the new batch.