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Now on tap: Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA

Fresh in from San Diego, we are currently pouring Port Brewing's High Tide IPA until the keg blows.  Here's some info from the Port website:

Brewed only once each year to coincide with the Hop Harvest in Yakima Washington, High Tide IPA is made with 180 lbs of Fresh Hops per batch that are plucked from the vines and sent straight to our brewery. We skip the whole drying and processing stage which means the hops are ultra fresh and full of flavors we can't normally get. Like grapes, Hops are only harvested one time each year and as such, we make what we can when we get them.

The recipe is very simple and basic with an emphasis on the variety of hops we select each year. Lately, we have selected Centennial and Chinook hops for our High Tide IPA. We used Centennial at the end of the boil and Chinook for the Dry Hopping. Now that we have brewed High Tide, we will sit and wait for the ultra High Tides of Fall to arrive knowing full well that we have sufficient stocks of great beer to get us through the flattest of sessions. We hope you'll stock up too.

Yeast- White Labs- Port Brewing Proprietary Yeast Strains

Malts- Two Row
Kettle Hops- Amarillo Pellets
Whirlpool- Centennial Fresh Hops
Dry Hop- Chinook Fresh Hops

Original Gravity- 1.062
Terminal Gravity- 1.012
6.50 % ABV

For a review of last year's bottled version, check out the Hot Knives writeup of High Tide Fresh Hop IPA.