SHARKS?! DOUBLE?! What a great way to start!

Okay dudes, guess I'll hit up the review craze. It just so happens the ole 'rents took a voyage out to the land of gold, surf, fiery earthquakes, and the Running Man/Commando to visit my bro, Ben.

They came back with the most thoughtful gift a Jeff-Knowin'-Man could: BREWS with words like "double," numbers like "15," and packaging like "gold foil."

First on the tasting adventure is Port Brewing's Shark Attack Double Red. Dang, that bro of mine sure knows me well... Sharks and double all on one bottle! How could it go wrong? Well it obviously can't. Nuh uh, no way, no how.

I poor it in an uncharacteristically flaccid manner, resulting in a lack of head. Anyway, the color is a mixture of fertility, blood, and violence while the smell maintains the malty scent of an Oktoberfest-themed harbor and boarder shorts soaked in maltsmaltsmalts. I take a sip and, wham-o ding dong boom, flavor happens: fertility, blood, and violence. NO, just kidding. Sweet, sweeter, sweet, some malt flavor (just barely), then hop bitter. Good balance, Kerri Strug type of balance, between the upfront sweetness and malts with the bitter aftertaste. Boy oh boy does that alcohol come through in the lingering, tingling sensation in the back of my mouth, but dang I really don't mind; it's an 9%'r after all!

Overall a sharky and totally gnarly brew. I give it an 8 out of 10. I wish the red grain flavor was more prevalent, but this beer is just ATTACKED by the hops, double-ness, and obviously the aquatic man-eating mammals it aptly represents.

Stay tuned for the Hop-15, coming in May!

(P.S. I challenge you, community, to a best background-for-the-beers-you're-drinking/reviewing contest. I wish my good camera was up and running to better exhibit evil Conquistador of Mexico, Hernan Cortez, and the representative schooner of exploration.)