Welcome to San Diego- Home to Hop Heads on every corner and THE best place in the world to live if you enjoy Humulus Lupulus and the smell of a well hopped beer.
This is Southern California, it’s the place where Blind Pig started the Imperial IPA revolution and San Diego Brewers have continued to be at the forefront of its evolution.
Today, fans of Double IPA come from every corner of the globe in search of many of the world’s best and most incredibly well hopped beers. It’s no secret that you can find many of them at Port Brewing as well. Like you, we love these beers and mostly we enjoy the happiness they bring us.
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 as a celebration of 15 years of "Good Beer Brings Good Cheer."
Hop 15 has 15 different hop varieties added to the beer every 15 minutes. Over the years, Hop 15 has racked up numerous accolades. It has won two silver medals at the Great American Beer Festival. It also was named Alpha King in 2004 and 2008, and received a first place award at the Bistro Double IPA beer festival in Hayward, CA.
Hop 15 remains won of the stickiest most resinous beers we have ever tasted and for that, we are thankful it is on tap at our brewery each and every day.
Comments
My favorite beer
Appearance: Amber, not too dark, unfiltered.
Aroma: Nice and bitter
Flavor: Full, with a nice little afterbite
Mouthfeel: Like many good DIPA's, almost syrupy.
Overall Impression: I love this beer so much, my wife bought me a case of it. If you see it, grab it. They do have it at Wine & More in Wareham.
Comments: Everyone who comes to the San Diego area wants to visit Stone, but I'm telling ya, drive across the 78 and find Lost Abbey/Port Brewing. They are only 2-3 miles from each other.
Hop 15
Appearance: I remember when I first had this beer. It was about 5 or 6 years ago. We were living in San Diego, specifically Ocean Beach. My buddy Craig worked at a liquor store, sampled this amazing beer, and thought so much of it he brought a case home.
Aroma: He broke it out that night, and we were all floored. It is an amazing brew. And potent. My then girlfriend, now wife, downed a bomber by herself.
Flavor: Then she had another.
Mouthfeel: I think she blacked out that night, but we all had a good time. Those were good days.
Overall Impression: Good beer, friends, sunshine, that youthful feeling that of invincibility. That's what I remember about that first night we had Hop 15.
Comments: Spectacular brew.