Port Brewing’s Wipeout IPA

Cenntenial surf, Amarillo undertow, Simcoe tsunami: Wuhuhuhuiiipout.
Pizza Port, the home of Port Brewing, is where all the dudes who work at Stone Brewing Co. go to drink after work. We know because we were there. Two blocks from the ocean in Carlsbad, California, Port Brewing is holding down the “San Diego” style of craft beer. Carlsbadalicious.

Wipeout IPA, one of three India Pale Ales the company makes, is badical. One large pizza, an order of mozzarella sticks and way too many beers later Wipeout crowned itself King. With a bitter bite and 7% alchol by volume, Wipeout uses no less than five hop varieties: all of them present in the complex finish of this strong willed ‘session’ IPA. It’s less acrid than many of the Imperial IPAs being churned out of west coast craft breweries but harder on the tongue than Stone or Alesmith’s standard IPA. Lacking the acidic cat pee notes often present in many American IPAs, this brew finishes like a hearty huff from a sack of strong weed: spicy, piney and totally “SoCal.”
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