Oakes (33770) reviewed IPA from BridgePort Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Hazy golden amber with slow moving tiny bubbles and an inch thick bleached white head. Very nice appearance. Hops are a little musty in the aroma, with peachy accents and some pine as well. Moderate bitterness...body again a bit musty, I guess from the yeast. This dulls the palate a bit more than I’d like. There is an even balance between simplistic but well-extracted pale malt base and a somewhat generic hoppiness. Using so many varieties is not something I’m a fan of...the hop character becomes indistinct. I’m getting shades of this and that, but nothing specific. The finish is dry, a bit harsh with that yeastiness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a clear very dark but not quite opaque black with a moderate light tan head and spotty lacing. Lots of sweet dark roasted aroma with some coffee and chocolate notes. Flavor is a roasted slightly bitter smokiness, easy on the hops and some slightly sour porter like flavors. Coffee here as well but not too strong. Fairly thin feel and moderate carbonation. Prety nice.
JK (8171) reviewed IPA from BridgePort Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
This is a top notch ipa. It has an excellent floral and fruity aroma. Excellent appearance, dark orange with an initially large head that eventually fades to a thin white foam floating on the beer. Flavor is a complex blend of bitter hops with herbal characteristics as well as citrus. There is a medium sweet finish combined with a malt aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
I expected to really notice a heavy sweetness from the molasses, but I should have realized it would ferment out and leave a pretty dry beer, as this was. Roast is the featured theme here, lots of dry, burnt, ashy charcoal of barley. A little touch of caramel once you focus. Hops not prominent, just balancing. Bittersweet chocolate. A fun beer when you want something a bit out of the ordinary. Attractive near opaque showing some red at the edges, nice head and lacing, as with most of their beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Black with a large tan head. Carmel and coffee aromas. Flavor is surprisingly light with coffee and chocolate. Body is thin, and the beer is somewhat bitter. In an older bottle all of the same is there, but now there is some sweetness and fermenting fruit as well Also carmel, giving it a bock flavor while cold. Good; score raised.
BoiseBrewBlog (9150) reviewed ESB from BridgePort Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle Pours a medium slightly redish copper color with a very slight short lived head. Wisps of spotty lacing. Plain malty aroma with not much of a hops note. A bit like cider. Flavor is malty, slightly sweet, very little hops and moderate to slightly thin feel. Very littel bitterness at the end. A pleasant sweet woody flavor as a trailer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
After 20 years of walking the highwire of craft brewing, BridgePort brews a macrobrew! Bright amber colour. Nondescript "amber" aroma, so mainly caramel and not so much hop, maybe vague malts. Bland, light, caramelly character. Sweetish accent. maybe some hints of toast. So standard, so boring, so by-the-numbers. The only feat of daring here would be to drink a second one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Red copper ale with a thin off-white head. Sweet nutty malt with vanilla notes in aroma. Sweet malt with roasted caramel and nuts. Lighlty oxidized. Oily mouthfeel.
bb (18607) reviewed IPA from BridgePort Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Dark amber with a big off-white head. Grapefruit aroma. Big grapefruit flavor with some malt backing but I’d like to see a bit more. Nice hop flavor and a bitter finish but a bit one-sided. Easy to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
An amber beer with a disappearing off-white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol and oranges. The flavor is sweet with lots of alcohol that burns the tongue, but also notes of wood and caramel. Too simple for my liking.