Pizza Port Poormans IPA

Hand bottled, thanks cquiroga! Clear golden. Concentrated hop aroma of sweaty lychees. Sweet with some solid biscuit malt underneath an abundance of perfumy aromatic soapy lychee-like hops. Lingering very bitter finish. The hops are almost assaulting, but in a pleasant way. After some initial hesitation I give in and just love this beer.

Golden-bronze. Pear and orange nose with some wood. Pretty amarilloey with quite a bit of sweetness, notes of brown sugar, dalandan soda, that sort of thing.

Name: Poor Man’s IPA
Date: 12/01/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub, Carlsbad

hazy amber, wipsy white head, lots of lace, sweet pine and citrus aroma, sticky grapefruit flavor, tongue scraping bitter finish, pretty drinkable for an over the top beer

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ***/4

From tap at San Clemente. Pours golden orange, clear, and with a lacing white head. Light peach fruity hops aroma. Flavour is solid grapefruit and pineneedle hops flavoured. A slight bit too much with a too vague malt presence to counterbalance this.

On tap at PP Carlsbad on 12/1/06: Pours a clear bright golden bronze with a thin, nicely-lacing off-white head. Sweet, lightly toasty pale malty aroma has a good piny grapefruity hoppy aroma. Body starts cold but sweet with a touch of biting carbonation and plenty of fresh piny resiny hops and a smooth, mild caramel bittersweet finish. A nice double IPA.