Essential Haze
Port City Brewing
- From:
- Port City Brewing
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.23 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 08, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 08, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewery release notes:
Essential Haze is a natural evolution of our old favorite, Essential Pale Ale -- stronger, juicier, and more essential than ever. Hopped with Columbus, Simcoe, and Amarillo, this hazy IPA bursts with notes of juicy orange zest and dank pine resin. Those flavors are all wrapped in a soft, pillowy body with a smooth, low-bitterness finish.
Essential Haze is a natural evolution of our old favorite, Essential Pale Ale -- stronger, juicier, and more essential than ever. Hopped with Columbus, Simcoe, and Amarillo, this hazy IPA bursts with notes of juicy orange zest and dank pine resin. Those flavors are all wrapped in a soft, pillowy body with a smooth, low-bitterness finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
4.23/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
On tap at brewery:
Yellow body has a good amount of haze, but isn’t cloudy. Head is forthcoming and lasting, bright white. Nose has light tropical notes mixed with citrus rinds and sweet bread. I get mango, lemongrass, and candied lemon peel, a hint of mint and some coconut flakes. Taste opens as the nose led me to believe, with a sweet lean. More classic hop notes start in mid-palate and grow in flavor and bitterness (leaning grassy but some pine as well) through the finish. Not juicy, but mildly fruity; I like that the bitterness coming through quite a bit.
Aug 08, 2025Yellow body has a good amount of haze, but isn’t cloudy. Head is forthcoming and lasting, bright white. Nose has light tropical notes mixed with citrus rinds and sweet bread. I get mango, lemongrass, and candied lemon peel, a hint of mint and some coconut flakes. Taste opens as the nose led me to believe, with a sweet lean. More classic hop notes start in mid-palate and grow in flavor and bitterness (leaning grassy but some pine as well) through the finish. Not juicy, but mildly fruity; I like that the bitterness coming through quite a bit.
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