A First Visit to Port Brewing Company
As part of brief San Diego County brewery tour last month, along with a couple of other guys, following our first brewery at Bagby Brewing, we then made a stop for a duo of breweries. Located in the original location for Stone Brewing, both Lost Abbey Brewing and Port Brewing share a space. It’s in a warehouse that is spacious and they have free 1oz bags of Snyder’s of Hanover Bacon Cheddar Pretzel Pieces (OU-D) available complimentarily for customers, which is really cool. Since I already discussed the Lost Abbey beers, here are my tasting notes on the Port Brewing Company’s beers.
Flight of beers at Port Brewing
We started off with the Wipeout IPA (7.0% ABV), a west coast classic, which was a nice, light beer, with dank hops (not as much as Bagby’s), noticeable amarillo and centennial hops. Next up was Shark Attack (9.5% ABV), a “Double” red ale brewed with great crystal malt flavors, which was an incredibly amazing beer!!!! All three of our drinking trio agreed that it was very good. It’s full-bodied and really delicious as well as hoppy, and one can’t even taste the boozeyness of it. Wow!
Board of Beers
Next up was Mongo IPA (8.0% ABV), a double IPA, which was danky, but not overwhelming. It was tasty, but not too big bodied. We then had Old Viscosity (10.5% ABV), an Imperial Stout, which had a pleasant effervescence and nice coffee flavors that are noticeable, but don’t take over; this is a yummy beer. We then had the Board Meeting (8.8% ABV), a dark brown, which featured lovely coffee flavors and more – not simply as a brown ale.
Finally, we had a seasonal beer, the Port Pilz (5.5% ABV), a traditional Czech-styled pilsner with saaz hops, which was crisp, light, and, as one of our group said, “It’s a great palate cleanser.”
All of the beers at Port Brewing were great and I think we all agreed that the Shark Attack is a really special deliciously tasty beer!
