Pizza Port Shark Attack Triple Red Ale

Brewed by Pizza Port (Solana Beach)
Style: American Strong Ale
Solana Beach, California USA

Bottle: Pours hazy deep amber with a bubbly light tan head. Very nice aroma of both malt and hop richness. Toasted vanilla and honey with a rye-like richness and an assertive pine presence (spruce). Slick and fairly light bodied for the ABV. A rich flavor without being sticky at all. Nice malt presence, nice bready and rye-like presence along with toasted vanilla, minty suggestions from the hops and lots of pine/spruce character. Has a long bitter finish. Nicely balanced, great stuff.

Bottle. Kind of a murky, brown with radiant ruby highlights. Thick! Aroma of hops, caramel, molasses, hops! Taste is similar with a big alcohol taste. Creamy body. Loved it!

Bottle. Pours dark amber red, small beige head. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, hops, and something a little burnt. Taste is similar with heay caramel, fruit accent, and bitter finish. Nice double red. Body is full and smooth. Overall, a solid brew.

Amber-red color, with a thick beige head, sweet toasty, caramelized malt nose, with some dried raisiny, datey, pruney fruity accents, with some toffeeish, cookie dough notes, with a light floral hop leafy, candied lemon peel aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet toasted, caramelized malt, fruity character, of dried raisins, prunes, figs, with a buttery, toffeeish, faint burnt brown sugar note, some nice flowery hop piney, leafy, citrusy accents, leading towards a warming, malty, hop leafy bitterness finish.

22oz bottle. Acquired in trade. Ruby red pour with a thin head of wispy tiny bubbles. Surprisingly strong caramel aroma with hops obvious but secondary. The flavor is much the same with the caramel flavor really stealing the show. I was expecting more hops, but I’m quite happy with this beer.

Phew!!! Incredible, love it... an incredibley delicious hopiness with a strong brown sugar, caramelly, chocolatey body goodiness to back it up... WOW!!! It definately bit me! Peeps, this is gold. better than the stock market.

Mmm.. very delicious. Dark copper red color, thin head that somehow leaves decent lacing on the glass. Surprisingly low carbonation, almost like it was tapped from a wooden cask. Lots of caramel, apricots, prunes and fruit flavors with a strong citrus and pine resinous hop finish. Very nice brew.

22oz bottle. Nice reddish amber body, relatively clear (a lovely color), with a ring of bone-white head that laces lightly and sparingly. The sediment in the bottom leads me to think this is a bottle-conditioned beer. It smells like a malty home-brew, caramel, fresh-baked black bread, and floral hops. There’s a touch of pine, estery booze, and roasted malt. Mouth is medium-full, rather flat with almost no carbonation--a touch syrupy. Malty sweet, but pleasingly so with caramel, black bread (malts you might expect of a Maibock). This is followed by a healthy dose of hops for a bitter finish of pine and grapefruit rind, and the aforementioned malts roasted. It’s quite delicious in a young, unrefined way and could probably benefit greatly from a year of cellaring, which would basically involve developing the malts and lessening the hops. It would be more pleasant and refined, but not much more delicious.