Skip to main content
Lompoc Brewing is responsible for my favorite new Portland
IPA of the year, a quickly disappeared one-off called White Album. That
beer was a collaboration with Portland Brewing co-founder Fred Bowman
and featured wheat and pale malts with Meridian and Chinook hops. White
Album glowed in the glass, with a sweet citrus pop that balanced
perfectly against a clean breadiness. Pamplemousse, the new bottled IPA
from Lompoc, isn't the White Album, but it's no Yellow Submarine,
either. Continuing the trend toward Radleresque IPAs, Pamplemousse gets
a dose of fresh grapefruit juice that blends with rugged bitterness to
resemble eating a halved grapefruit, without sugar. There's a little
rind in the finish, and a little farmyness to the nose, but the
lingering flavor is refreshing, fruity and pleasantly hoppy.
Recommended.
WWeek 2015
