Port Brewing Hop 15

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Courtesy of Footbalm. Dark copper color with no head. The aroma is something like an earthy orange; definite citrus, but some of that dusty hop as well. Strong hop flavor with a ton of caramel. A little orange near the end. Wicked good.

Murky mix of orange and yellow with a light head. Big grapefriut citrus hop smell with some bready malt sweetness. Smooth medium body. A lightly sweet bready malt flavor is quickly overtaken by a big tart grapefruit hop taste. Very easy drinking, hard to spot the 10% here. 11157

Bottle. Hazy amber body with medium size off-white head. Flavour is malt and plentry of hops.

Bottled. Aroma has a lot of hop-fruitiness (mango and grapefruit) and pine. Hazy, red-orange coloured with a short head. Taste is very bitter with an enormous astringent finish. It has pine, ripe mango and some grapefruit. A bit of a non-sense brew. Every 15 minutes a new hop added... go figure... Funny artwork. Just smell this beer, don’t drink. It’s over the hop-top.

UPDATED: APR 14, 2009 courtesy of fogdog. Pours gold, white head. Aroma is floral and very hoppy with notes of malts. Taste, just hops all over coupled with some fruit notes (grapefruit and citrus), and not really my cup of "hops". leaving some bitter dry finish. Overall a good complex DIPA, that should please any aficionados of hoppy beers. Re-Rate 4/14/09 enjoyed it a lot more than previously. More balanced

This was my first Pizza Port beer thanks to Hopdog. Pours a cloudy amber with an average size white head that slightly laced the glass. Strong floral and pine aroma. Flavor is surprisingly not overly hopped. Dry hops, floral and citrus. This thing was exploding with hops, but nicely controlled and balanced.

Bottle pours dark caramel, rather murky, small off-white dishwater like head that quickly resides to just a small film, virtually no carbonation, with very fine bubbled lacing.   Aroma is quite grapefruity, with notes of caramel and hops.   A very sweet tangy hop flavor glides over the tongue when first sipped.   Surprisingly not all that bitter.   Fairly smooth for a Double IPA.   Nice body, slightly velvety mouthfeel.   The lack of carbonation probably adds to the mouthfeel.   Finishes rather sweet, caramel with a very light hop bite, and some spruce and/or pine in the aftertaste.   The 10.5% ABV is dangerously well hidden.   This one was quite a treat, a complete dessert beer!  Thanks goes out to herbjones for the trade!

Light lasting cream head on dark amber. Moderate hop aroma. HUGE up front hop flavour. A hint of bubble gum. Delicious complex hop soup with a nice complementary malt sweetness.