BridgePort Hop Harvest Ale (2010 and later)

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this bottle. Orange with a large white head. Aroma is full of flowers and pineapple. Flavor is very floral with some pineapple, biscuit and medium bitterness. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

Hazy golden color with a white head. Aroma of citrus hops. Taste is sweet and citrusy. A pretty mild IPA.

Tap at Haymarket. Very non-aggressive IPA - some floral hop but it’s far from bold. Decent enough but far from awesome.

undated 22oz bottle served in a New Glarus pint glass in April 2012. Pours with a medium, rather creamy looking bone-colored head. The beer itself is slightly hazy golden amber. Notable and rather chunky sediment remained in the bottle after the initial pour. Lots of sticky lacing on the glass. Smells hoppy with a lot of citrus and some floral, herbal and earthy elements. Presages a taste that will be both sweet and tart. Marred by a bit of dankness. Taste: more malt than is common for style, making for a more balanced mix of sweet malts and bitter hops. A hit of tangy hops and/or yeast towards finish, followed by an earthy and bitter (grapefruit) aftertaste from the hops. M: nicely carbonated; medium body; rather dry finish. O: this unfiltered Imp. IPA has a homebrew (not that that is a bad thing) look and taste, and a very fine mouthfeel.

pours a cloudy orange-yellow with a thin egg shell head, and good lacing. smell is hoppy, floral, citrus, a touch of pine, caramel, and malt in the back. taste is oily, hops, caramel, citrus, sweet in back, and malt. ends bitter.

Draught @ BeerTemple. Pours very pale yellow and looks almost like a witbier. Quickly fading white head. Lightly sour, soapy nose. Taste is not what I expected: again hard candy sweet and sour. Can’t taste the hop. Reminds me of Hoegaarden, which is not good...

GABF 2012
Appearance: Clear golden with a big white head
Aroma: Floral, caramel and citrus
Taste: Sweet caramel and floral
Ok, too sweet for me.

Very pale straw coloured brew. The aroma is loaded with bright lemony/noble hops. A fairly assertive bitterness but with a lot of noble spiciness. Hopped to IPA levels it seems like with a lot of lingering bitterness. The beer also has a very lean malt component. A touch of pepper and a little bit of alcoholic heat as well. This seems to add to the perception of dryness though, so that’s good. Has a little bit of high gravity pale malt flavour which is tough to describe but has a slight honeyed character. A touch of acetaldehyde but it’s pretty restrained. Nice brew really

Hop Harvest (2011) Sampled on 4/20/2012.This India Pale Ale pours medium orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity and sweet, citrusy and hoppy. A medium bodied India Pale Ale. The malts are fruity and sweet. The hops are citrusy and herbal. Decent carbonation. Nicely balanced IPA, especially for a Pacific Northwest IPA. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Not as hoppy as I would have liked, given "hop" is in the name, but wasn’t bad compared to all the beer I’ve had. It is a little less hoppy for a "hoppy" beer, but still pleasant to drink.