Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Marcos, California USA

Bomber, shared with NachlamSie. Pours hazy yellow with white head. The aroma is very much grapefruit, with a little bit of sugariness and white bread. The flavor is grapefruit juice, with a nice sharp bitterness to it. Then a sweeter lemon tone comes in, as well as a mellow yeastiness. This is a pretty tasty brew.

bomber, thanks to Tronraner. Pours a cloudy dark gold with a small white head. Hop aroma is very crisp and straightforward. Loads of pine and lemon are noted with a deep herbal, grassy bitterness. Wow, not a lot of malt on this one. It’s all about the hops. Big, drying blast of pine and weed with a lemony sweetness coming out for some balance. I don’t get a lot of juicy citrus on this one. Pretty darn tasty stuff and impressively hoppy.

Brought this at 2nd Houston Tasting. Cloudy lemony yellow color, much like a hefe, with a bubbly white head. Fresh citrus hops with floral as well. Crisp flavor with softer hops than the nose. Nice bite on the finish.

bottle at 2nd Houston Tasting, thanks to Zinister. Pours a cloudy yellow with a half-finger white head. Aroma of grapefruit. Taste is definitely grapefruit and maybe orange rind. Mouthfeel is medium, fresh-hop feel with harshness in the bitterness. Not one of my favorite IPAs.

Bottle at 2nd Houston Tasting. Pours a cloudy light yellow with an aroma of melon, factory plastic, and sweet grapefruit. Flavor is a blend of grapefruit and orange that leaves a bitter, but pleasing, film on the tongue. Great mouthfeel; flavors are distributed throughout the sip. A surpisingly light IPA that is nonetheless refreshing and delicious.

Light gold color with a white head leaving good lacing and has pretty good retention. Aroma is mostly of pine, but there are some floral, earthy aromas as well and a bit of grapefruit. Some citrus flavors, but I seem to get a fairly large amount of earthy flavors. Lighter than medium carbonation with a medium body. Flavor wasn’t quite an 8 for me, so it gets bumped down an overall point. Pretty good stuff.

Clear yellow/apricot color. Hoppy citrus aroma with skunk mixed in. The taste was mainly citrus with light malt, mango, and apricot flavors. Bitter medium skunky finish.

Cottony white head on a shimmering gold body with a substantial load of hop particles. Fruity mango and grapefruit, plus fresh resinous hop cones and light pale malt sweetness underneath. Nicely rendered hop bitterness. Assertive, but not coarse or rough. Very skillfully crafted IPA. I’ve been having a major hop craving lately and this beer was extremely satisfying.