Port Townsend Hop Diggidy IPA

Brewed by Port Townsend Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Port Townsend, Washington USA

Bottle from shigadeyo shared at the Party Source. Poured a hazy copper color with an large frothy off-white head that lasted and produced good lacing. Moderate hoppy citrus and pine aroma. Medium body with a slick texture and lively carbonation. Medium hoppy bitter flavor with a smooth hoppy citrus bittersweet finish of average duration. Solid drinkable brew.

8/18/07 On draught at the Dog & Pony, Renton, Wa. Aroma is a grassy, earthy, citrus piney hop blend that has great balance but is just too low. Appearance is light copper with a moderate white head. Flavor is a blend of lightly sweet malt and grassy hops forward followed by strong citrus and a resiny finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, resiny, with a medium carb texture. Overall, very well balanced and with a great hop blend.

9/19/2007: Hop Diggidy IPA is orange in color and is cloudy with some particulate floating around in it. It has a big (pillowy), foamy (rocky), off-white head that lasts for a pretty long time. Hops are most evident in the aroma at first. After the beer breathes a bit, come citrus and sugary toffee maltiness become apparent. When the beer first hits the palate, it tastes hoppy like tangerine and citrus-rind and has a heftly bitterness. However, the bitterness then kind of fades away slowly and doesn’t cling at all. Then some yeastiness and underlying malt is noticeable in the finish. The flavor didn’t exhibit any astringent notes, but this beer just feels like it is higher than the 6.3% ABV that is listed in the production information on this page. Maybe the alcohol just hits faster or something... This beer is medium-light and goes down pretty easily. Overall, this is is a pretty decent IPA.

22 oz bottle from bitbucket. Thanks Bob! Rating #24 for this beer...

Pours golden with a thin/non-existant head. The sediment in the bottle became suspended in the glass. Mandarin hop aroma. Light bodied, refreshing with a zesty bitter finish.

Tasted on tap at the 10th Annual Bistro IPA Festival. This IPA pours a light orange gold color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is orange and sweet. A medium bodied India Pale Ale. The malts are caramel, fruity and sweet. The hops are floral and earthy. Medium bitterness. Touch of orange and orange peel. Nice balance. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Bomber 7/30/07

I can’t help it -- I just like dry-hopped IPAs. This may not be an exceptional one, but it’s an enjoyable one. What can I do?

Pours a relatively light amber with a small pure-white head and very mild carbonation. The nose is relatively subtle by PacNW dry-hopped IPA standards. Nice floral aromas, cut hay. Mmmm. The flavor is almost subtle by local standards. Rather than a hop blast, I get a mild sweetness from the malts, light-bodied with lots of peppery spice (but not strongly peppers, as in e.g Mac & Jack’s IPA). My first sip was the least pleasent of the batch, with the slightly vegetal notes coming through too strongly, it was improving from there. Mouthfeel is light, almost restrained.

Not a bad IPA, and I like the dry-hopping. Certainly the best of the Port Townsend beers that I’ve tasted thus far.

Draft at Fiddler’s 12/3/09. Yeah, pretty much what it says above.

re-rated:
old ratings:
6/3/7/3/14 - 3.3
7/3/7/4/14 - 3.5
pours a cloudy amber-orange with thin egg-shell head, good lacing
smells of grapefruit hops, some caramel, some floral, citrus, dandilion.
taste is thick, some grapefruit, some orange, caramel, some pine, malt in the back, nice bitterness that grows as you drink.

I’ve never looked at a beer under a halogen desk lamp but damn, this beer has tiny bubbles and tiny suspended gold flakes - almost looks like suspended tiny bubbles. The beer itself is golden but the gold dust really is unique! Miller would die to have a beer that looks like this! Initial hop aroma was huge and somewhat sweet. Bitterness wasn’t what I might expect from Skippy but the finish is totally luscious - sort of like a long lingering embrace after a night with the one you love. A perfect beer to go to bed with.