Hop Suey
Pizza Port Bressi Ranch

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From:
Pizza Port Bressi Ranch
 
California, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
11%
Score:
94
Avg:
4.27 | pDev: 8.43%
Reviews:
45
Ratings:
62
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 03, 2016
Added:
Jan 27, 2006
Wants:
  37
Gots:
  1
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

4.3/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
This is like, Pizza Port's offering in the Pliny the Younger vein. Hits the mild orange spots, white head that can't formulate and hang because of the amount of hop oils and alcohol.

Was like a humid pine forest of aromas.

Taste was pretty good at hiding alcohol, dropping tropical and citrus fruit notes, bitter but not 100 ibu grating levels of bitter. Very good stuff, always happy to see this one show up. Still not as good as Pseudo Ipa.
Apr 03, 2016
 
Rated: 4.75 by double2chin from California

Dec 16, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by terpinsd from California

Jul 01, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by spycow from Illinois

May 19, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by popery from California

Feb 27, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Jan 09, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by t0rin0 from California

Dec 10, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by GMoney from California

Jun 15, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts

Apr 07, 2012
 
Rated: 5 by John11486 from California

Feb 16, 2012
 
Rated: 4.5 by fox227 from California

Dec 20, 2011
 
Rated: 4 by bkny27 from Massachusetts

Dec 10, 2011
 
Rated: 4.5 by brandoman63 from Illinois

Nov 21, 2011
 
Rated: 5 by Rochefort10nh from New Hampshire

Nov 21, 2011
 
Rated: 4.5 by codynevels from California

Nov 16, 2011
 
Rated: 4 by jlb502 from California

Nov 15, 2011
 
Rated: 5 by TheRealDBCooper from Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands

Nov 14, 2011
 
Rated: 4 by nanobrew from California

Nov 14, 2011
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Reviewed by Rampage1 from Arizona

3.8/5  rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Unfortunately for me in the end this had way too much alcohol hotness.

Appearance: This beer pours a menacing dark glowing orange with a slight haze to it. When poured it had a slight yellowish with a little green color to the head of the beer. First time i can think of where there is a slight green color to the head-- Crazy.

Smell: The overwhelming smell is definitely grapefruit with some orange,mango and slight pineapple in there. Not much if any pine to the smell to me. A little apricot there as well.

Taste: The taste almost follows the smell. Like drinking fresh grapefruit juice. This stuff definitely has some bitterness to it with all those hops chucked in there but there is a slight malt backbone where it doesn't bite as bad as say Ruination. Pretty clean and dry on the after taste. Not too much alcohol to the taste.

Mouthfeel: Nice carbonation to deliver the flavor and pretty thin on the mouthfeel itself. Nice little bite from the carbonation.

Drinkability: I just cracked this growler and am half way through the first glass in my Bruery tulip. This stuff for as high of IBU's as it has is going done pretty quick surprisingly. I won't go as far as to say it sessionable but would love this stuff to come out in bombers. I have some drinking to do here and some dreaming tonight for my Raiders to beat down on the Chiefs.
May 17, 2011
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Reviewed by ehammond1

4.04/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
On Tap

Pizza Port
Carlsbad, CA

A dark orange bordering on amber; reminds me of tree sap. Almost no head. Looks somewhat thick and oily.

Tropical and citrus fruits, namely grapefruit. Some pine.

Bitter from start to finish but refreshing and pleasant. Sweet malt backbone underneath a mountain of hops. Delicious.

Full mouthfeel. Somewhat sticky.

Fantastically drinkable for a double-digit ABV DIPA. Appropriately named, as this beer karate chops you in the face with hops: a good thing!
Feb 24, 2011
Hop Suey from Pizza Port Bressi Ranch
Beer rating: 94 out of 100 with 62 ratings