Hop Suey Double IPA
Pizza Port (Carlsbad) in Carlsbad, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.56
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popery (1998) ticked Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 12 years ago
Travlr (30173) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at the brewpub. Dark golden, solid lacing. Aroma of pine, taste is too bitter, but has decent citrus and pine.
TimE (11146) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Deep golden amber color. Piney caramel nose. Very rich and heavy. Huge full body. Just too much malt, too big leads to an unbalanced slightly sweet beer. Lots of bitterness. Lots of hops, but ton this down a couple of notches and it would be better. I don’t really like this.
DSG (25977) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(11/3/08) Draught at Pizza Port in Carlsbad (thanks DenverLogan for letting me try this). Hazy golden-orange color. Aroma of citrusy and piney hops. Bitter hoppy flavor with pine, resinous notes, light citric notes and some alcohol.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Great Double IPA. Pours a hazy gold-orange with an off-white head that stays for a while and leaves great lacing. Aroma of exotic fruits with mango, and a pit of pine and caramel sweetness. Taste is wow, hop city! Lots of pungent, sticky, chewy, dank hops a bit nutty and caramel finish. Syrupy, mouthfilling and chewy with biting carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear amber with medium off white head. Loads of hops in the aroma with piney notes. Massive amounts of hops in the flavour. Contains pine, grapefruit and peach Notes. Very bitter finish. Nice!
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
GABF 2007. A golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet and very grassy and also with notes of the alfaacid. The flavor has notes of grass, grapefruit, spices, and hops - going overboard and lending the beer an acidity from the hops and showing off the alfaacids.
bb (18428) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft. Bronze beer with a nice white head. Sweet malt aroma thats dominated by hops - big hop aroma with grapefruit and summer fruits. Big grapefruit/summer fruit flavor with lingering grapefruit bitterness. Some pine notes, but more fruity hops. Rich body and alcohol well hidden. Delicious.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Hop Suey Double IPA from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Way too many samples for my own good at EBF on 2/11/06.
This stuff is so fresh (and C02 pressurized) that it can only pour with mountains of beige/cookie dough colored head that is very slow to recede. It does lace greatly, however and is well-retained atop a rust and copper meets lime juice colored body with a touch of haziness.
The nose is quite intriguing to me (even more so after having had a couple samples). It combines light lime and nectarine tartness with huge amounts of pine and ruby-red grapefruit. Light caramel malt in the background braces the palate for impact, but can anything ever really brace you for a full-on citrus and resin assault? My answer would be no, not in this quantity. The flavor certainly begins with plenty of rich caramel malt, nearly syrupy in its sweetness (though the C02 injection smooths things out and makes it bearable), but the hops really hit hard. Grapefruit and resin build unrelentingly on the palate, gradually adding more acidity to the finish with every sip. As it warms, some light cherries and other hints of fruits begin to show. There are touches of lime and tropical fruits, but they are so minor as to be nearly insignificant when compared to such mythical proportions of citrus. What really does come off well is the fully supportive, substantial and creamy body. Surprisingly assertive, yet does not add any sluggishness to the clean, bold hop finish. Don’t find any alcohol (other than moderate warming on the end). Seems like something you’d get if you mixed 1/5 frank, 2/5 hop15 and 2/5 YuleSmith. Or something like that. . .