Port Brewing Wipeout IPA

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

Bomber. Pours a cloudy amber color. Nice white head with medium sized bubbles. Smells great, citrus and hops. Pretty much your standard West Coast SD style IPA. Tastes of hops, of course, but also more sweetness on the finish than you’d normally find in an IPA. Palate is eh, its alright. Nothing to write home about. A little watery for lack of any better terminology. Overall, this is not my favorite IPA by a long shot but this is a beer that I could still drink all day and night.

bottle. Thanks Saarlander. Hazy straw/orange pour with frothy head. citrus hops, pine resin, rich malts, hop oil aroma. Delicious! Rich and mildly creamy. great hops and bitterness. noticed some pear. lively carbonation. top notch IPA.

Pours light - a pale, cloudy honey color. Hops on the nose right away - and strong hops, to boot. A lot of citrus in the aroma, with a bit of other fruits - grapefruit for sure, and I’d swear someone dropped a bit of pomegranate in there. Initial flavor is disappointing - it isn’t big enough for a "massively hoppy beer." The taste lingers, though, and builds into a nice IPA after a few more sips. The flavor is more piney than the aroma - not much of the citrus comes through. Good overall, but I want more than a "nice" IPA - I keep sipping more, hoping for a more complex, more intense flavor - and it doesn’t come.

On tap at PP Carlsbad. Clear bronze amber with off-white head. Slight citrus aroma with light sweetness. Big bubblegum flavor with grapwfruit, pine, sweet abd awesome. Medium bodied and creamy. Awesome IPA.

22 oz from Plaza Liquors. Pours a beautiful copper color. Huge aroma of spicy and fruity hops. Nice somewhat chewy texture with a good malt backbone to go with the insane hops. One of my favorite IPA’s.

Poured carefully, this awesome brew comes out a clear, medium orange-amber color. A large, creamy, off-white head sticks around for ages, leaving thick sheets of lace behind. The first thing you notice about the aroma is the creaminess. This thing is hoppy, with citrus being the primary component, but incredibly creamy caramel malts cut right through the orange hoppiness. The flavor echoes those same sentiments, with big orange hops blending absolutely perfectly with heavy cream, creating what is essentially a citrus hop milkshake. The body is perfect. Plain and simple...just perfect. Its substantially full and smooth as silk. I couldn’t ask for anything more for the mouthfeel. This brew shows excellent balance from start to finish. Its as flavorful as a double IPA, but as easy drinking and sessionable as a smooth, well balanced, regular IPA. What more can I say? San Diego continues to pump out the most consistently solid IPAs in the country.

Smells like wet leather - Nice looking, very caramelly malt base with a huge hop flower presence. Kind of fruity and sweet. Mildly bittered but heavily hopped, lots of hop complexity - hard to distinguish all components. Nice drink.

22 oz bomber purchased from Capones. Pours a very hazy orange/amber with a HUGE foamy white head that slowly disipates and left some serious lace on the side of my glass. Huge grapefruit aroma that was easily detectable from three feet away as soon as I opened the bottle. Chewy mouthfeel with a very dry and bitter finish, seems almost like an IIPA. While this beer was still on the cold side the flavor was all over the place, lots of grapefruit, grainy bread and alcohol that didn’t meld well at all but seemed to be competing for first place in the strength department. As it warmed the three flavors found harmony and it melded quite nicely. Very good indeed.