Hop 15
Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Summer Out of Production|
Score
7.81
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First brewed in 2002 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Pizza Port in Solana Beach, Hop 15 was imagined and designed by Tomme Arthur and Jeff Bagby. It was to be a celebration of 15 years of "Good Beer Brings Good Cheer." So there are 15 different hop varieties that are added to the beer every 15 minutes. Over the years.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: amber in color with a nice transparency about it, one finger white foamy head slid off at a nice pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: citrusy hops, piney hops, light honey and a clean biscuity maltiness
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to a fine bittersweet blend; finishes with pine, a touch of honey and light biscuits
Texture: medium bodied, surely a sipper, pretty smooth along the tongue, very little hop bitterness
Overall: nicely done West coast styled DIPA more than worthy of returning to if I could.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: amber in color with a nice transparency about it, one finger white foamy head slid off at a nice pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: citrusy hops, piney hops, light honey and a clean biscuity maltiness
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to a fine bittersweet blend; finishes with pine, a touch of honey and light biscuits
Texture: medium bodied, surely a sipper, pretty smooth along the tongue, very little hop bitterness
Overall: nicely done West coast styled DIPA more than worthy of returning to if I could.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Feb 2026
at 20:40
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
This was an ASSAULT!
This beer shredded my palate, and I couldn’t taste anything for the rest of the night. Very resinous, pine, loads of citrus, and grapefruit. No malt anywhere to be found, and the bitterness was intense. It stuck to my throat, and just coated it. For a hop head this is heaven.
This beer shredded my palate, and I couldn’t taste anything for the rest of the night. Very resinous, pine, loads of citrus, and grapefruit. No malt anywhere to be found, and the bitterness was intense. It stuck to my throat, and just coated it. For a hop head this is heaven.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Aroma of malt, caramel, ripe tropical fruits, citrus, grapefruit, orange, sugary notes, pine, huge hops. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long bitter finish. Impressive explosion of aroma and flavour. I couldn’t find the bottle date but I suspect it had aged a bit. Will look for fresher bottles... in the future!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2025
at 05:04
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Notes from May 2009 Bottle from Julio's in April, no BBD. Carolus goblet, right after drinking a half growler of Avery collabo. Nearing an inch of sediment on the bottom. I didn't trip on any furniture on my way to my desk. Inch of cream-colored, milky head over a weighed down murky orange/amber body. Layered lace as it falls. Smell is full of buttery toffee, intense nuttiness & grass clippings. Barleywine tenancies creep in as I feel the alcohol macerating my nostrils. Taste is of burnt toast & sugar, leaves, & irritating grapefruit rind. Maybe a twinge of orange to go with the dusty finish. Oxidation-like newspaper note in there too. Alcohol is every bit the 10%. Balance is just something I'd prefer, but since there's no real complexity here, it doesn't offer up much besides acidic bitterness & the comforting notion that you can endure it(which sadly seems commonplace now). Carbonation is strong & beaded though, helping you endure. Still quite syrupy. The alcohol doesn't make any friends. A tired beer. I drink it as a penance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2024
at 22:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rerate 7/22/2014 bomber
Tried
on 04 Apr 2021
at 14:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours light hazy amber with a medium white head. Notes of floral hops, grass, citrus, grapefruit, sweeter orange, malt, pine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taste pour from can as part of blind taste test from One Stop Market. Appearance is clear gold with gorgeous lazy sparkle with finger-width foamy off-white head with good retention and no lacing. Aroma is citrus pine and malty. Taste is strong caramel and bready malts with medicine-y alcohol not much hops except bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture frothy carbonation and finish as taste. Overall nice mouthfeel but taste is more APA than IPA and IPA mostly for bitterness. High ratings seem to be from when bitter West-coast IPA's were king. Not feeling it in 2019.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Oct 2019
at 02:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Refrigerated 19.2 aluminum can poured into a glass. Clear golden with big white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, well carbonated, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops, floral hops, and bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2019
at 23:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Grapefruit and red berries in the somewhat medecinal hoparoma. Firm oily hop flavor, somewhat medecinal with grapefruit, lemon and red berries. This beer is malty enough, but this is overpowered by the omnipresent hops. Long oily hopbitter aftertaste with pineapple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Gravity cask at GBBF 2019. Orange-amber, clear, bubbly head. Acidic hop nose, citrus, light caramel, boozy. Sweet, smooth, boozy, caramel and sugar, orange, grapefruit, resins, bubble gum. Interesting and fun.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2019
at 11:22