Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Marcos, California USA

Delicious! I’m sampling this in mid-December and I can’t help wondering if I’m losing out on a bit of the fresh hop aroma by now. But still, oh my - the aroma wafting out of the glass is lovely. Grassy and spicy - notes of citrus rind and alcohol. A slightly hazy orange color with a foamy white head that dissipates quickly. Certainly the style of beer I love and gravitate to, and a well done one at that.

Pours a hazy gold with a nice thick head. Aromas of citrus and pine hops. Very crisp with incredible hop flavor with a hoppy bitter aftertaste that lingers foverever. Medium body, perfectly balanced. One of the best IPAs I’ve ever had the pleasure to try.

fresh from this year’s harvest, acc. to vendor was shipped from the states to DK as soon as it was finished. clear orange, thick smooth offwhite lacing head mild flowery hops in the aroma, not a hop head extreme beer. not that strong hop aroma. but what there is, is nice. hop aroma seems to be quite fruity and fresh. flavor is fresh flowery hops, clearly also some pine, very fresh / juicy flavor of orange and pine. good bitterness to balance. pretty tasty. alc well hidden, ends with nice bitterness, the middle is fresh juicy and hoppy, some malt balance. pretty nice IPA that i think is much less agressive than most double IPA’s etc. delicate.

Are you friggin’ kidding me!!! No perfect ratings? Well here is one. Perfectly Hoppy. Perfect alcohol. Perfectly balanced. Perfectly smooth. Perfect aroma Perfectly fresh. Perfecty tasty. What can I say. I love good hoppy beers. This the kind of beer after you’ve had it once when your cruzin’ a good beer store looking for some good new brews to try and you come upon this one and you have to have it, You just have to have it cause it’s just that good.

It’s warm golden, slightly hazy with a lot of small particles floating and the head is creamy and lasting. The aroma is fruity with notes of citrus, peach and spruce. The flavor has a light sweetness and a dry bitterness, and the notes are slightly perfumed fruit, gooseberries, peach, a weak hint of raspberries and the finish has a dry bitterness.

Big bottle from Ølbutikken, CopenhagenCold from the fridga steams the tulip glass when poured. Dusty straw golden with a fluffy white lasting head. The nose is blasting hops away - all american nice floral and grassy / citric notes. To top the joppy notes there is some buttery sweetness. Nice and fresh. The taste is lovely hoppy aswell, sweet in the beginning followed with an agressive bitterness that bites your lipps in the end. Some citric and tropical fruit notes. The palate is a bit oily with the picking feeling caused by the hops. Nice american IPA - and not as fat as most of the IPAs ive had from over there.

Draught. Pale golden with a soapy white head that laces nicely. Strong pine and citrus hops aroma. Flavor is potently bitter, grapefruit with little malt backbone.

From bottle shared with awiseman and brother Eric. Very strong almost overpowering piney aroma of hops with some noticeable lemon. Light Golden with a thick fragrant white head. Not quite as rough as I was expecting but o so bitter. Carbonation is there but definitely not the most interesting thing going on. Very good for what it is.