Port Brewing Wipeout IPA

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

Trade with After4ever, thank you Tom :) It’s an orange-golden beer with a creamy head. The aroma has notes of spruce, citrus, mango and papaya. The mouthfeel is oily. The flavour has a good bitterness with notes of citrus, spruce, fruit, light caramel and it ends on a dry note. A little more caramel would have made the bitterness smoother/less crude in this otherwise nice beer.

Pours a cloudy orange amber color with a tall white head. Bitter hop aroma with some citrus from about a foot away. Bitter hop finish mutes the citrus. Soem graprefruit on front of tongue. Overall, very nice.

surprised to find Port beers at the Thriftway on Vashon Island (fantastic selection there). The floral hop aroma seems a little masked, a bit musty. mildly cloudy golden color with an off white head that lingers, yet a little flat in the mouth, as well as aromatic and drying. I get taste spikes of citric bitterness, orange sweetness smoked malt. Finishes sour.

22oz (from bmartin08 and here in Seattle). Crisp golden with tight white head. Fresh smell of citrus hops. Well balanced weight and mouthfeel. For someone more used to DIPA this is a tasty ’normal’ version. Lots of flavor that is balanced.

A bomber from Hi-Time Wine Cellars. Orange-amber color and pours with just a thin head. The aroma is citrus hops and pine but it’s a little weak. Really nice grapefruit hoppy flavor, this is very citrusy, some pine as well with light malt backing. Very nice, just like an IPA should be, and the aggressive hops are what I’ve come to expect from a good West Coast IPA. I really do like the hop profile in this one. This may fall just short of the top tier of IPAs in my book but that’s mostly because of aroma and appearance and this is a great tasting IPA. Re-rate: Few more bottles, not much more to add other than these last few bottles created a nice frothy head which yielded some heavy lacing. Much better appearance. The aroma still doesn’t match the flavor. Same nice West Coast grapefruit hoppy goodness. Becoming one of my favorite IPA’s. I love it.

Bottle - Pours a golden Amber. Slightly hazy with a fluffy head that lingers. Aroma is somewhat of a letdown. Just not a whole lot there. Palate is medium body and great malty balance to the crisp hop bitterness. My first Port Brewing beer, and I am glad to say that I was not disappointed. If I could get this regularly, I’d drink it a lot. Aquired in a trade with bmartin. Thanks!!!

Bottle at home - shared with Mette. Cloudy amber - white head. Nice hoppy, grass, resin, licorice, grape, citris, fruity, light soapy, nice malty, light sweetness, caramel, light wood. Very nice - lovely drinkable.

Surprisingly great IPA. I grabbed this tonight thinking it wasn’t anything special. Pretty hoppy but not overly bitter. A little more sweet than I was expecting as well. Very drinkable. Absolutely delicious!