Style: Double IPA, Imperial IPA
Bottle: 22 oz.
Why did I buy this beer? I have never had a Port beer before. I've read good things about this brewery, this particular IPA is highly rated, and brewer Tomme Arthur supposedly knows his shit.
Label: Stupid. Plane dropping hop "bombs" into a glass. I don't like this label.
Glass used: Stolen Gotham Cask Ale 8 oz. tasting glass.
Food eaten at the same time: Trader Joe's Split Pea soup from a can and pretzel sticks.
Initial taste note: This beer tastes thick. Not unlike a carbonated rum...if rum were made with pine needles and not sugar cane. Maybe it's the alcohol (10%).
Secondary taste note: If this beer were an animal, it would be a mountain goat.
Tertiary taste note: I feel as though there are little farmers in this beer, using hop-coated scythes to till my tongue.
Quaternary taste note: I can't finish this bottle by myself. I'd be too drunk and my mouth feels as though it's imploding. I blame the hops. Supposedly Port uses 15 different varieties and does not publish which ones they use. This is bullshit because I could guess 15 different hops and probably get most of them. There just aren't that are commercially available for a beer like this.
The experts speak: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/5318/31323
More on Port Brewing: http://www.portbrewing.com/
Conclusion: I'd drink this again, preferably on draft or with a masochistic friend to share the big bottle.
Rating: 6.746. Completely arbitrary. Ratings are stupid. Would I drink it again? Yep. I'd probably even pay for it.
