BridgePort IPA

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Pours a honey colored body and an off-white head with legs. Smells of citrus, floral, pine hops and honey. Flavor is the same. Nice bitter finish.

Bottle. Body is golden and aromas are faintly floral with a little citrus and honey. Flavor reveals a bready side to this, from grainy malt to yeast presence with the hops not really making a strong showing until late in the finish. Even then, they seem to match more English take on the style rather than something from the West Coast.

On Tap at the Celtic Tavern, Denver 09/10/2007 Some carbonation. Strong fruit and hop aromas. Amber golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a crisp and very bitter finish.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with ditmier. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with a moderate white head that lasts through mid-glass and laces the glass well. Pleasant aroma of grapefruit along with a few pine notes. The flavor is predominantly bitter grapefruit along with some malt and pine. Bitter finish. Solid west coast IPA.

12oz bottle. Pours golden orange with white head. Aroma is citrusy with hops. Flavor is heavy on citrus with nice balance between malt and hops. Not a lots hops for an IPA, but is sessionalble. Not bad.

Clear orange pour with a thin white head, aroma is heavy hops and citrusy, flavor is well balanced with hops and malt, hints of grapefruit, finishes dry and crisp.

Orangey-yellow pour, nose is rather traditional IPA-citrus, hops, maybe some pine. The taste is similar, but there is absolutely a note of banana hiding underneath it all. The hops are very dominant, but strangely not heavy-handed. One of the better IPA’s I’ve ever had.

Hazy yellow pour with an eggshell head and moderate lacing. Nose is pine and citrus. Taste recapitulates the nose. Mouthfeel is okay. Finish is mediocre.