Port Brewing Wipeout IPA

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Lively orange brew. Aroma is a bouquet of fruity/piny hops. Hops dominate this beer with mild malts in the background. Bitter hop aftertaste. 22 oz bottle.

As IPA’s go, this is one of the best. Orange-gold pour, nice fluffy head, aroma full of hops. Big citrus and resin in the taste with a slight malt back. Nice and bitter.

Bottle: Yay! more bottled Pizza Port. Pure hops just gush out of the bottle and into the aroma of the air. Sits in the glass as a dense brass copper color. Little amount of foaming. Flavor is bitter with hops and citrus notes grapefruit as well as the peel of a grapefruit or lemon. Aftertaste is astringent and metallic but all the well a good IPA.

GABF 2006. Hazy blonde color, white head that lasts. Aroma is dominated by piney hops, some grassiness. Thin body. Flavor is dominated by piney hops and bitterness - malt lacking, one dimensional. Overall, a very hoppy, one dimensional brew with a pine focus....very similar to a lot of Pizza Ports IPAs. Disappointing.

GABF 06. Golden/Orange. Aroma is big sticky citrus hops. Taste is big sticky and resiny citrus hops, with some malt. Bitter finish. Delicious IPA.

UPDATED: AUG 4, 2010 On tap at Pizza Port Carlsbad. Clear medium amber-gold color with a dense medium white head. Full, resinous piney hops aroma with fresh grapefruit and mixed citrus. Full hops flavors as well with resin, pinewood, earth, dark citrus and a nice herbal grassiness over a dry malt backbone. Very crisp full body that is deceptive nimble with dry malt characteristics which take a backseat to the full, strong hops profile with clean, strong, bitter, lifting finish.

UPDATED: OCT 19, 2007 On tap. Oh dear. Amazing! Truely amazing. Best IPA ever. So wellbalanced and great complexity. I will speak no more of this beer - just let the memories roll over me. I must go back some time - I must.

On cask at Papago: Pours to a mostly clear, though ever so slightly cloudy, bright orange-yellow colored body with a tiny (it’s on cask remember), bubbly white head that quickly fades. The aroma is just awesome - fresh, juicy, ripe hops - but the hops here are much more fruity than most west coast style IPA’s I’ve had (possibly due to it being on cask?). It’s just a complete noseful of juicy citrus & fruity hops, though it doesn’t assault your nose and almost burn like say Dreadnaught (not that I mind that either). The taste serves well on cask - the hops are highlighted throughout, and retain the fresh, ripe, juicy & bitter flavors you’d expect from the nose, along with the intense fruity hop notes too. This one’s totally focused on the hops, but it manages to achieve a very differnt hop flavor while retaining tons of bitterness. Maybe it’s just due to it being served on cask, but it really works. I can’t detect any alcohol, so purely guessing I’d put this one at about 6.5%, but it’s certainly possible that it’s higher and simply hiding any fusel alcohols. Normally the carbonation seems to help lighten the body, provide a crispness on the palate that helps to enhance and progress the hop flavors, but this one doesn’t need it. Light-medium bodied, very moderately carbonated, finishes with extended citrus and juicy fruit hop notes. In the condition that I had this one it ranks right up there with Russian River’s Pliney the Elder, though it is definitely its own animal.

On cask at papago, pours a deep orange witha heathy white head. strong hop aroma with some caramel malt. Flavor is mostly citric hops, bit of malt, not a ton of balance. Finish is really long, nice amount of bitterness. Good really use some mroe balance/ a bit more interesting flavors.

From Growler, purchased at Solana Beach location. This is one of the nicest looking beers I have ever seen. As one of the raters below me said, it’s a ruby amber color, almost fluorescent. I gave this a 9 for aroma, because, like almost all of Pizza Ports hoppy beers, you can actually smell the fresh hops in a distinctive manner. It truly smells like fresh marijuana. Amazing. Taste is super hoppy as one would expect. This is a tad harsh, but other than that, it’s a perfect beer. Maybe it’s not the best brewery in the world, but I think that NO one does hoppy beers like Pizza Port.