Port Brewing Hop 15

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Hazy amber/orange color; Medium creamy body; Aroma of pine hops, caramel malt, citrus, & some fruit; Flavor of slight sweet malt, caramel, rich pine hops, some mango/pineapple, and citrus (notably tangerine & grapefruit); Finish is dry & bitter; Nicely balanced & complex; Overall, packs a wallop of hops - excellent IPA.

On keg at the Brewdog Bar, Edinburgh for their IPA Wars. The beer was a cloudy golden colour with a generous white head. Fruity hop aroma of pineapple, mango and sweet wedding cake. Flavours of pine, pineapple and orange. Quite bitter. I remember the bottle having more hop aroma, being more bitter and a little more resinous. I found this keg a bit sweet.

Bottle at Bishop Arms, Copenhagen. Hazy amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour of caramel, hops, fruit and with a bitte finish.

Poured from bomber, pours a nice orange with a decent white head and lacing through out the glass, the aroma is full of tropical fruit, pine and a hint of malt, the flavor is a great mixture of pineapple, orange with a touch of pine. The hops and the malt are blended perfectly, everything a nice DIPA should be.

Cloudy amber with floaties and an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - pine. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 290611

Big bottle shared with Leif and Skinnyviking at Bishop Arms in Copenhagen. Huge, pillow-like, off-white head. Amber-gold with a slight haze. Inviting aroma of rounded floral hops, hints of caramel sweetness. Fine blended taste of bitter hops and sweet malts, a mix of pine needles, citrus shells and caramel malts leading to a nice lingering bittersweet finish. Great tasting brew, 29.05.2011.

Bottle pours a hazy copper with a tiny tan head. Scent is caramel and bread. Taste is pine, citrus, bready with a bitter finish.

Pours a slightly murky dark orange color. Massive hop nose with pine and grapefruit. Surprisingly enough the taste opens quite sweet with caramel and a full, syrupy body. In the middle we get the hops, again full of delicious ripe grapefruit, resiny pine and loads of spice. Given that there are 15 different hop varieties in here the hops are blended really harmoniously and do not clash with each other. The heavy malt backbone makes this a rather sweet DIPA. Even though the bitterness can’t quite compete the spiciness can - it really assaults your mouth and makes you forget the initial sweetness. It all ends on a bitter-sweet note, putting a big grin on my face and leaving me wanting more.