Port Brewing Wipeout IPA

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

Split 22 ounce bottle in pint glass. Hazy golden orange with lasting head and lace. Fresh hop citrus and grassy aroma. Mild sweetness with pronounced peach apricot fruitiness and bracing bitter finish that lingers. Medium body and medium carbo. Very refreshing and assertive. Excellent.

Sample at the pizza port in Carlsbad. Citrus and spruce aroma, nice citrusy flavor with well balanced hops. Great IPA.

Sample at the Carlsbad brewpub. This brew is clear orange with a medium thin and fluffy off-white head that diminishes slowly. Patchy lacing on the glass. Citrusy hops aroma with some pine and malt. Moderately hoppy character with pine and orange peel notes, as well as some malt in the background. The finish is somewhat bitter and hoppy with a lingering grapefruity hops aftertaste. Solid all around.

Bottle from Monument in Concord, CA. This one held true to the West Coast IPA mantra. It had strong grapefruit hit on the palate early, while holding a limited smooth aftertaste. However, it lingered a bit too long for me to rate this higher. Overall, very good.

Golden with some reddish notes with a nice short lived head. Nose of resinous tangerine and woody notes along with toasty notes Flavor: Very drying with with toast notes and rich hop flavors leading from spicy, resiny, grapefruit and woodyness. Palate: For a big IPA the malt is sudued and the finish is medium length finishing dry with toast notes. Overall: There is a certain refreshing dryness in this IPA which is characteristic of the west coast style typified by Russian River, Stone and Pizza Port - the other west coast styles like Alesmith enjoy the benefit of an orchestrated malt back ground to highlight the hops

Pours a nice hazy amber with one finger head. Nose is piney, acrid, and hugely citrusy. Flavor is acidic and cutting, but not overly so. Excellent bittering- Simcoe quite evident. Flavor is powerful, though not overwhelming. Palate is smooth and full for an IPA, with a dry, hoppy finish. Excellently balanced and crafted- nice job.

Bottle from Monument Liqour in Concord, CA. Poured a murky yellow color with the aroma of citrus. A little rough on the palate. Too many hops and not enough malt to balance. Not bad, but it could be better.

bottle. MIddling appearance, a bit darker than many IPAs, small-ish but thick head that sticks around. Mild aromas of grapefruit and citrus fruits, with notes of fruity sweetness. Middling bitterness starts out, backed up by toasted caramel biscuit sweetness. Flavors of oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, and some peppery notes make up the hop character. Relatively well balanced for an IPA, especially one from the west coast. Decent palate and finish, with an even smoothness.