Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA

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

22oz bottle. A beautiful golden color with a foamy head and nice lacing. The aroma explodes with hops and grapefruits. A smooth and very refreshing dry hopped beer.

22 oz. bottle from South Bay Drugs. Golden orange pour with a bubbly white head. Aroma of pine needles and tangerine peel. Bitter piney hops as well as mouth puckering bitter grapefruit. Not much in the way of balance here just a full asault of bitter hops. The finish is clean and good to the bitter end. Absolutely loved this one. Another great beer from Port.

22oz bomber, fresh from south bay drugs. pours a beautiful, hazy, yellow gold with a thick, bubbly white head and great lacing. aroma is amazingly fresh with huge fruity hop notes of apricot nectar, peach, tangerine, and pink grapefruit with sweet floral notes, fresh cut pine, raw herbal hop buds, and just a touch of crackery malts. flavor is very tasty as well with juicy, fruity hop notes of orange, grapefruit, and lemon with milder touches of sweet pineapple and apricot and more raw, herbal, piney, and bitter hops on the finish. palate is bright, crisp, and very fresh and juicy on the tongue with solid carbonation. overall, a very well executed fresh hop ale.

it was said best in Pineapple Express "It smells like God’s v@g!n@". Golden-apricot hued with a tenacious thick and fine bubbled head. Love the smell of those fresh hops, pungent, floral, grapefruit citrus, piney, morning dew atop "bud". Taste is less than the nose, light fruity malt hides under dominating citrus, mild caramel, bitter finish. Palate is clean and fresh.

bottle. great fresh aroma. grapefruit and orange peel. spicy mouth feel. very good, but a tad bit bitter. I like bitter, but there isn’t as much balance as I would like.

bottle. Pours a cloudy golden color with a frothy/creamy white head which retains extremely well throughout. A good solid fingers worth. Nose is piney hops with a light hint of a biscuity maltthat is kinda like crackers. Palate is fluffy and creamy with a light tingle that is appreciated. wow, this nose is quite fresh and very needly. Flavor is a light crackery biscuit malt up front with a big bitter hop finish in the tongue.

Pours a hazy dark golden orange color with some slight peach and light hazy golden orange color when held to a light source. Two finger frothy, pillowy white head with great retention, only slowly fading into a lasting cap that coats the glass with chunky rings of soapy lacing. Floral hoppy aroma with lots of earthy dank hop oil, sticky buds, slight citrus notes, pine and slight alcohol. Subtle malt presence with hints of biscuit but the aroma is dominated by the earthy fresh hops. Creamy resinous medium body with a huge burst of sweet floral hops with a very nice amount of dry bitterness. Once again there is a lot of earthy dank oily hop flavor that I’m loving. Slight sweet citrus notes, mostly orange/lemon peel and grapefruit and a nice dry piny presence in the finish. There is a nice malt backbone with hints of caramel, biscuit and graham cracker providing nice balance without interfering with the hops. There is some light alcohol warmth towards the end of the swallow and in the finish but otherwise the ABV is decently masked. Pretty drinkable and is as close to a session beer that a 6.5% beer could be. If you love fresh hoppy beers this is for you. Recommended.

Bomber. Aroma has a super-sticky, pungent vegetaation quality floating above the bitter citric hops. Like the smell on your hands if you crush the leaves on a bunch of streamside leaves of various buses along a trout stream (sorry - I’m a trout fisherman and this actually makes perfect sense in that context :) ) .....Taste is a little one-dimenisonal, citric hops and biter caramel finish - which is probably not all wrong at all for the style, just not terribly exciting. Awesome nose - average to above average flavor. All around a good one.