BridgePort produces a variety of international style ales, including IPA. BridgePort’s ales are naturally conditioned in the bottle, keg, or cask from which they are served - they’re never force carbonated. The natural conditioning creates ale that is smooth, naturally carbonated, and full of flavor.
Today, BridgePort Brewing Company is one of the top specialty brewers in the state of Oregon. As BridgePort Brewing grew in popularity, it also grew in its brewing capacity from its 600-barrel beginnings to over 100,000 barrels per year. Distribution has grown from Portland to 18 states, and the brewery’s emphasis on producing quality, innovative ales has provided it with an international following and numerous awards.
12 oz. bottle. Pour is black with a smallish tan head. Aroma of roasted malt and and some hop bitterness. Taste is right on with nose, nice medium bodied roastiness with a bright hop bitterness in the finish. Decent stout.
Bottle. Floral Aroma with fruity notes. Cloudy orange with thick foamy white head. Medium body, with hoppy and fruity tones. Light finish. I don’t know if I would call this a double IPA, it really isn’t as hoppy as the DIPAs I’ve had in the past.
Bottle. Poured Deep mahogany, almost teak with foamy beige head. Malty aroma. Full body with malty backbone and peppery notes. Hoppy and peppery finish, lasting a long time.
I don’t get any Belgian character out of this beer. Light wheat in the flavor. Filtered yellow appearance. Lightly sweet malt and no perceivable hops. OK palate.
Bottle: Poured very dark brown with lasting medium tan head. Aroma of chocolate and roast malt. Roast malty body with chocolate and hop notes. As bear warmed, the finish became fuller and mouthfeel greater. I found two stray bottles of this in a market. Is this no longer being bottled?
Bottle. Mild hoppy aroma. Poured pale gold with lating white head, like a lager. Citrusy, with a hint of malt and bread. Lasting spicy finish on the front of the tongue. I drank this after hours of yard work in the hot sun.
12 oz bottle a friend brought to dinner. Pour is clear golden with a pretty big white head. Actually looks quite a bit like a pale lager in the glass. Aroma is pretty faint though some malt poked through. The taste was really chemically on the first sip. Pretty sure that’s a load of diacetyl. After the original blast, this settles into a pretty dull beer.
Bottle from my son-in-law, Colin; Nose of grassy hops with a little floral added; hazy light amber with a medium off-white head; flavor of piney, grassy hops with a small amount of hop bitterness, along with a lemon note; finsh is mildly bitter. Not a hopbomb, but decent!
Bottle: Clear golden color with a small and short-lived white head. Nose is almost nonexistent. Just a hint of malt and grain is detectable. Taste is a little grainy and metallic. Some hints of hop bitters and sourdough breadiness.
Aroma of dark toasted malt backed by chocolate. Dark brown color with virtually no head. Medium body. Starts with dark molasses sweetness, followed by some bits of chocolate. There is also a decent amount of bitter - unless it is that burnt malt thing. Finishes dry. Mouth smackingly good. The long result is bitter with toasted malt.