Port Brewing 3rd Anniversary Double IPA Review

Every year Port Brewing Company brews up an anniversary beer... weird, right? This year's, was a Double India Pale Ale, same as the first two... So Port Brewing isn't that into surprises, but at least they cop to that fact on the label.

Into the glass the Port Brewing 3rd Anniversary Double IPA poured a murky dark orange with a light tan, voluminous head. Right away you could smell some bright hops with a bit of alcohol. Oddly, it smelled sweeter than we've come to expect from a West Coast made IIPA.

The taste was nice and bitter with balancing, sweet malt. It had good flavor but ended with a bit of alcohol solvent flavors. Furthermore, we've come to expect less balance in our Imperial IPAs from the West Coast. We want tons of bittering and hop flavor!

Luckily, the malt does take a back seat and seems to be there just to balance the hops... we only wish it didn't balance it quite as much. We feel like the East Coast has little access to enamel dissolving bitter IPAs anymore. Someone send us some, please!!! 

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