Port Brewing Hop 15

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

UPDATED: MAY 6, 2010 Nice Hoppy nose but not over the top. Probably because their was virtually no head to lift it out of the glass. Alcohol hits you right away. Big bitter hop bomb. Heavy duty Pine with toasty coconut finish. I thought I would like this more being from Port. The sweetness if there is any is buried by copious amounts of big green hops. Definitely not balanced. If you want to be slapped in the face with hops this beer is for you. I understand what they were trying to accomplish with this beer. They said OK you want hops! We’ll give you hops! They did! By the time you get to the bottom of you glass nothing matters and your hooked. RE-RATE 5-6-10 I friggin’ love this beer. Holy shit where’s my woman....know what I mean? It makes other beers similar in style look flawed. The creaminess has to be experienced because it can’t be explained. A HOP HEADS DREAM! If you see Kay!! Tell her I love her!

Great beer. Pours out dark red IPA style. Very hoppy with crisp bite. Sweet malty finish. No super green after taste. The best imperial IPA.

Probably the best IPA I’ve ever tasted. The balance of hops and malt were perfect. Touch of sour to balance bitter, tangy, and sweet. Purchased at Pizza Port. Pours dark golden with thick yeast.

Style and Glass: DIPA, Snifter; tulip ABV, Volume & Calories: 10.5 % in 22 fl oz. estimated at 400 C Purchased at: The Six Pack Store, Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia, PA for $9.00 Aroma: flowery citrus burn, soft but speaks of quality and heft. Visuals: A very nice package — inviting but not overwhelming, hop bomb motif is especially enticing, murky after adding sediment, but brilliantly clear at first pour. Deep, dark orange with staying white head and sticky lace. Hard to see through. Taste: A screaming fit of sugar malt and piercing hop bitterness. It literally hurts the back of my mouth and tongue. It is amazing. The burn goes on for nearly a minute. A sensory experience like no other. The citrus, pepper, and it must be capsaicin, I can’t believe that any other additive would burn like this. It is used to a special and wondrous effect. Bravo. Palate: Piercing, biting, and hoppy. Burning, sweet, and bitter. Coating and delicious. Overall: It is a stand alone in imperial IPAs. None other have exactly the ssame effect. In a long line of collectible duplicates, this DIPA stands alone. Very, very well done, and memorable. originally posted at: <a href="http://beercritic.wordpress.com/2009/01

I’m in Hop Heaven. There is nothing bad I can say about this beer. Hopheads rejoice!!!!

Bottle from Capone’s. Turbid orangy copper pour with 1-finger off-white head and excellent lacing even through the repour. The aroma is huge; a mix of heavy hops, pineapple, mango, tangerine, honeydew, and caramel malt. This is perhaps the greatest beer aroma I’ve ever experienced, perhaps even rivaling Dreadnaught. The flavor is big hops and fruit, with a huge malt bill, and notes of tangerine, pineapple, mango, black pepper, and melon, in roughly that order of intensity. The palate is dense, complex, very well balanced. A smidgen more malt here would have made this a Perfecto Robusto. As it stands, it’s one of the best IIPAs, and best beers, I’ve ever quaffed.

Easily one of the best beers that I’ve ever had. The pour is cloudy goldish amber with a nice lasting chunky white head. The aroma is spicy, piney hops, but its the flavor that wins me over. Flavors of pineapple and orange in the beginning with some sweet, resiny malt backbone that just explodes into piney hops with a biting, spicy finish. The hops at the end linger like no other ipa. An excellent, excellent beer.

I’ve had this a couple of times, and it is truly a marvel. Had this at the cask festival at port brewing, but i had a sip of if from the tap in the pizza parlor. I used up a portion of my festival tickets because it was just that good! Nice golden amber. Perfect head. Great lacing all the way down. Very good hoppy aroma. But the taste... pretty close to the very top of the DIPA heap! Big flavors, and yes, you might not be worthy... Several people at the festival didn’t think quite as highly as it did, but it was their loss. I’ve read that this is now going to be available in bottle! Hallelujah! If i can’t have a Pliny the elder or a Pliny the younger in bottle form, Bring on the hop 15!