Outdoor Escape
Pizza Port Solana Beach

 

 

 

Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: American IPA
Glass: North Park 16.5-oz. Munique glass
Price: $2.34
From: Trader Joe’s in College Area (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: March 17, 2021
Consumed: April 3, 2021
Misc.: Canned on March 12, 2021 at 10:23 a.m. PT

Grabbed this, another five and a 6-pack of a Thorn hazy IPA on a recent trip to Trader Joe’s. Their website called it “Outdoor Escape is a light-bodied and dry-finishing IPA. A subtle grain bill using flaked rye as well as malted oats from our friends at Admiral Maltings helps highlight tropical fruit and floral notes up front, rounded out by citrus and resin on the finish. Hops: Mosaic, Loral, Chinook, Waimea"

Poured a medium yellow clear color with 2-to-3 fingers of frothy off-white head. Plenty of bubbles coming up along the sides of the glass. Excellent watery lacing. Very bad retention. (Sight - 3.50)

Smelled Mosaic, Loral, floral, herbal, candied lemon, pine and some skunk. About as good from the can. (Smell - 3.75)

Tasted about as good as the nose. Got Loral, Mosaic, floral, herbal, pine, lingering peppery spice and candied lemon. (Taste - 3.75)

Medium body. Oily texture. Average carbonation. Bitter finish. (Feel - 4.25)

This was very good overall, but glad I didn’t grab a 6-pack. (Overall - 3.75)

3.79 | 85 | B+

Clear orangey amber with long-lasting foam in the Duvel tulip. Lush and sudsy on the tongue. The hop mix is hard to sort out, but there are fruity flavors along with resins and a dark plummy note. Aroma of citrus. Hugely flavorful and interesting in the classic IPA vein. Peppery finish. Warm malt.

Maybe it's my imagination but it seems to have that spicy and grainy taste I associate with rye. Moderate bitter aftertaste. Overall this is a distinctive and robust beer. From the 16 oz can picked up at the San Clemente location. Dated 04/11/21 so perhaps it didn't sell as well as the Coastal Access, brewed in June, which I snagged the last six of.

It smells floral and citrussy.  There's a distinct breadwater background.

There's a malty taste up front, followed by a floral flavor and bitterness.

It medium bodied and heavily carbonated.  The finish is bitter and long.

It's a good IPA. It pretty straight forward.  I give it a 4.7 out of 6.

 

 

 

 

Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass

A: Pours golden amber with a frothy off white head that settles to a light layer and leaves a little nice lacing.

S: Floral, light citrus, tropical and stone fruit, a little pine, spicy herbal notes, biscuity malt, and caramel honey sweetness.

T: Big time floral, citrus, lemon, tangerine, and grapefruit, some pine, solid hit of tropical and stone fruit, peach, apricot, mango, passion fruit, a hint of watermelon and bubble gum, peppery spice, underlying herbal slightly grassy tones, biscuity malt, and caramel honey sweetness.

M: Medium body, moderate carbonation

O: Might not be the kinda IPA you would expect from Pizza Port, but it hits the spot on a Spring day. Bright, floral, easy going, yet with nice depth of flavor.

I guess we're doing another 2021 review today. A few weeks back, was the last Sunday of ski season, rolled down the mountain and hit up BeerNV, one of, if not my fave place in Reno to drink (being across from Winco doesn't hurt either).

Pizza Port always been a fave of mine, had to hit up this new beer in a style they excel at. Pours golden with a measurable amount of clarity to it and the standard 1/2" white head. Aroma wasn't big hoppy you would expect from Pizza Port or Mosaic hops. Went more with the others aroma wise. Chinook and Loral came through, but I dunno.

Taste was rather pedestrian for Pizza Port. Chinook and Loral seemingly having more impact as bittering hops moreso than aroma or flavor. Body was relatively unobtrusive, stayed dry and crisp. Couldn't tell anything about flaked rye or oats going into this, the Loral hop also contributes to what seemed like I was tasting 100% barley. Bit of a twinge of alcohol to it. My lil summary on my phone was 'good but not great'.

West Coast all the way! This pours with an impressive cap of foam, clear golden body. The aroma has a dry, grassy, almost spicy note. Some of that peppery mowed-lawn character comes across the sip as well. Easy drinker, drying finish, nice bitterness.

 

 

 

 

A fairly traditional WC IPA, and a bit of a throwback, at that. The nose didn't give much to go on, although it was by no means unpleasant. It really delivers on the palate, however, with a nice balance of citrus and resin, and a dry finish. Very drinkable. This is the kind of IPA you used to expect when ordering an IPA on tap, before the proliferation of haze bombs and a plethora of sub-styles.