 golubj (963), Redwood City, California, USA
Jun 3, 2008
Bottle. Mirky brown pour with no head and no visible action. Sweet fruity aroma, maybe some yeast, citrus hops and other hops. Flavor is the same, a lot like a west coast barleywine, with rich sweet / fruity malt and hop bitterness and citrus. Mouthfeel is a little harsh.
jsh12bama (202), Alabama, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Bottle. Pours deep red with thick off white head. Aroma of malt and piney hops. Taste dominated by malt with slight grassy hops. Thick mouthfeel. Decent red ale.
bb (2069), Martinez, California, USA
Aug 16, 2008 Bottle. Ruby beer with a light tan head. Grapefruit/pine aroma with richer malts. Caramel, grapefruit/pine resin flavor with some nuttiness and richer malts. Medium-plus bodied. Grapefruit, pine and caramel linger. Good bitterness. Good aggressive balance between malt and hops (it’s not a "balanced" beer, but it comes together nicely).
HumbertHumbert (77), Denver, Colorado, USA
Aug 8, 2008 Possibly one of the most beautiful beers in a glass. Ever. Deep mahogany red with a light head. Soapy hops. I really wanted more malt. A standard red ale is usually malty/caramely without alot of hops, so I was hoping for something a little richer or maltier. Not a bad beer as is, but other than the color, I’m not sure what differentiates it from other DIPAs or even some American barleywines.
mabel (1583), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aug 6, 2008 [1367-20080517] 1pt6floz bottle. Hoppy dark malt aroma with leafy toast notes. Clear, dark amber brown body with quick off-white bubbles. Bitter hoppy grassy bits in the flavour, but mostly generic pine malt and bitterness. Medium body is super bitter. Interesting.
(c/o blankboy, w/ others)
Overheard: "Yeah, they’re flavour crystals." (referring to large floaties)
masonjer (429), Lansing, Michigan, USA
Aug 5, 2008 This beer has really confused me. Pizza Port making some great beer in general. I picked this bottle up from a bevmo in CA, and drank it immediately. Not sure what happened to this. Poured a dark red color with almost zero head. Aroma was huge sweet malt and raisins. Taste is hugely sweet as well, over ripe fruit and a huge alcohol kick on the end. The promised hops seemed to have vanished creating a syrupy sweet unbalanced malt bomb. I get almost zero citrus or punchy pine hop character. Not sure what to say, I am very confused as I was looking forward to this one. It is possible that any amount of time does not treat this beer well.
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