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Hop 15 | Port Brewing

806 Reviews
Hop 15Hop 15

Brewed by:
Port Brewing
California, United States

Style: American Double / Imperial IPA

Alcohol by volume (ABV): 10.00%

Availability: Rotating

Notes / Commercial Description:
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. It was to be a celebration of 15 years of "Good Beer Brings Good Cheer." So there are 15 different hop varieties that are added to the beer every 15 minutes.

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Photo of Ego
4.4/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

heady, to say the least, easy 3 fingers of white foam, absolute maelstrom of bubbles feeding this thing, kind of a glowing dark straw hue but nice and clean/clear clarity wise, lacing is ridiculous as well as the staying power of the foam hat topping this bad boy, great looking brew, almost as nice as leaked selfies of scarlett johanssen (so I heard...)

where to begin ? a true hop-a-palooza (ohh that made me cringe, sorry), a broad range of lovely hop aromas here, here is a peek at what is poking its way around here: mangoes, herbal, grassy, citrus, stinky weed, malty sweetness.. as crazy as this is the balance is there with the hops vs the malt, really nice

taste etc...
big ? sheesh, about 15 inches thrust down.. um, bad analogy, but I think it might have been said best in full metal jacket (but I will paraphrase)
Too Boku, Too Boku
no, this is 100% pure californian DIPA, no too boku
anyhoo, this goes big and stays big, you sense the alcohol but that's fine, the hops are super present but not taste bud serial killers, the malt really holds up here making this one delicious roll in the hay (or hops as it were), this certainly is not a shy minx, damn this mule kicks,
a testament to west coast brash and technical ability of the brewer, where as some port stuff strikes me as astringent this hits all the right notes, I mean it has the right weight, the right carbonation, crazy amounts of hops, big kick, and just superb all around.

47 ronin may have sucked but hop 15 is a goddamn summer blockbuster no matter what time you unleash it on to your beer Ka... this is one to punch your mom in the face for.

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Photo of Gregaroo
4.23/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

9-16-16 - Again on tap at Monk's in Philly. 15 kinds of hops. So good. McB loved his as well.
5/19/2015 - On tap at Monk's. Lost Abbey Red Hoppy had kicked. Hop 15 was a nice substitute!

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Photo of pkalix
4.58/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

super nice creamy head. hazy dark golden liquid'
smell is all tropical. I totally get the mangoes. and the pineapple is dominant. sweet gushing aroma of fruit.
taste is quite the same. almost candy-like with the burst of tropical flavors. I cant believe this is a 10% beer, although there is some hint of it along with the subtle bitterness. I absolutely love the aroma of this, though, as I bring the glass to my mouth for a drink. it's almost like drinking a fruit juice with its aroma. very bitter orange peel, some pine, and rounding off of sweet biscuit.

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Photo of KFBR392
4.5/5  rDev +7.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Bottled 2/27/14

Appearance: Bubbly head of a finger and a half. Color is orange with a murky body. Sticky lacing left behind with each drink. Average active carbonation.

Smell: Soft fruits greet the palate. Tons of citrus, grapefruit, kiwis, pineapple, and mangos. Light caramel malt sweetness gives the bright hops a great base to stand on. Some piney bitterness picked up on the back end with a touch of alcohol.

Taste: Grapefruit, pineapple, mangos, and sweet citrus greets the palate and slowly warms into the body. Tropical fruits continue to flow over the palate in waves then adds a touch of caramel malt and piney bitterness. Soft fruits and a lingering bitterness sit on the palate long after drinking.

Mouthfeel: Carbonation is masterfully done, providing a soft feeling which lets the hops shine through.

Overall: A masterfully executed DIPA. An absolute must try for a hop head. Port doesn't have the hype that many others do but they rarely miss. Completely top notch stuff.

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Photo of PPOmaha
3.96/5  rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Aroma: prominent citrus, mango, and guava hop aroma. You can smell it when you crack the bottle. Medium spicyness. No DMS,slight diacetyl that could be part of hop profile. Also some light high alcohol.

Appearance: light copper with light brown highlights. White head that dissipates quickly. Slight haze from bottle conditioning.

Flavor: In line with aroma, citrus and mango dominant with a significant sweetness but not too much to overwhelm bitterness. Balanced for 10% alcohol but you can taste the alcohol in the flavor as it warms.

Mouthfeel: Medium heavy body. Light dry finish with some sweetness and alcohol.

Overall: Nice beer but I recommend you drink it before it gets much warmer than 50 as it comes toward room temp the alcohol really starts to come out. Hop aroma is very good.

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Photo of AdamHart22
4.21/5  rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

From a 22oz bomber. Into a tulip glass. This is just a normal tulip glass. It doesn't have a brewer's name on it or some bizarre story attached to it. People wouldn't covet this glass for any reason, nor do I feel special describing this glass. Its just a tulip glass.

Now that that's over.

A - This DIPA looks great. A nice hazy orange with a 1/2 inch white head.
S - Oranges, grapefruits, even lemon, which I typically don't get and I drink this style frequently.
T - The nose knows. Grapefruit in abundance. Definitely a beer for hop heads but not over the top. Could be a good introduction to strong DIPAs for the uninitiated.
M - The relatively high carbonation finishes this beer well. Nice and crisp and it doesn't have the nasty pine tar feeling some of these hop heavy DIPAs leave behind.
O - A great offering. I'll definitely purchase this again. The bottle label indicates this was formerly a special seasonal release, but they are going to start making more of it in the future. Good news I'd say!

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Photo of JMScowcroft
4.03/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Port Brewing - Hop 15, poured into a DFH Spiegelau IPA glass.

Look - Cloudy caramel amber, massive soapy head that retains well. Abundant lacing.

Smell - Aroma is some sweet malt, followed by citrus and some bitter pine.

Taste - Malt intro is rich caramel and then the hops creep in and dominate, mostly floral pine, hyper bitter.

Mouthfeel - Full-medium bodied with low carbonation. Hot booziness. Quite bitter. Good drinkability.

Overall - Not bad. Lacks subtly, a typical TIPA. A bit overly malty and boozy. I like the hops but I've had much more balanced versions of this.

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Photo of NorCalBrewBuff
4.58/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

A pure crisp citrus nose that is very pleasing. Although very hop forward, the flavor is complex with the different hop varieties shining through. Carbonation is high which helps to create a beautiful thick head but restricts access to the malt backbone which you can still feel in place. This is a very nice hopcentric DIPA with balance. The ABV is well hidden and the flavor characteristics take center stage. This the best from Port Brewing that I have experienced.

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Photo of cxr1037
4.41/5  rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Purchased at a liquor store in San Diego for $7.99. Poured from a 22oz bottle into my Bruery tulip. I've had this beer before but this is my first time reviewing it.

Appearance: Soft, hazy light-orange. Strong, foamy head that fades into a subtle, 3mm ring.

Nose: Immediately, I get hops, but soon thereafter comes citrus, backed by a floral fragrance.

Taste: Sweet hoppiness. The alcohol is well-masked. Lots of grapefruit and other citrus. Almost candy-like, reminiscent of one of my favorite candies - Sunkist Fruit Gems. The bitterness from hops is balanced with a well-defined, but not overbearing malt character. Wonderful mouthfeel - not as heavy as the ABV suggests. Very well carbonated.

Finish: A lingering, citrusy bitterness that I feel toward the back of my tongue, but it isn't revolting. This beer is addictive: it makes me want to take more and more sips.

OA: This may very well be my favorite San Diego DIPA. Maybe even my favorite altogether! The DIPAs I've had in the 10+% range are usually too sweet and too malty for me to think of them as DIPAs (I usually think of them as hoppy barleywines), but I feel Hop-15 maintains the IPA character.

If you're a fan of citrus and hops, this is an absolute must-try.

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Photo of BillRoth
4.28/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Have had in bottles many times, and recently had on tap at LA/Port tasting room. Just a great DIPA. The massive amount of hop additions and the final dry hopping brings out a sensational piney resinous brew that breaks away with the citric and floral influences of the other hops. A hop bomb...but a complex and fun one. Tend to sip rather than slug...but also tend to sip often and long. Always very popular when I pull this out with friends.

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Photo of JG-90
4.65/5  rDev +11.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75

Hop 15 pours a huge, creamy white head with heavy lacing. Is a clear orange/straw color. Smells of dank and citric hops, with a bit of bread and pine.

Taste starts with dank, lemon, and grapefruit hops. Moves on to bread and pine, with a bready and citric finish. Body and carbonation are average for a DIPA, with some creaminess and breadiness.

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Photo of razorsdescent
5/5  rDev +19.9%

Just had this back to back with Heady, and this was just as good and in some situations better. A perfect beer. Citrus and pine to the max, with the most incredible lacing I have ever seen. I have had this on draft and bottled and I have to say, this is worth the pick-up., doubly so if you are a hophead.

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Photo of TwelveOunces
4.45/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

22oz bottle poured into a tulip
dated 9-16-13 (1 month)

A- Hazy golden orange with a massive white head.

S- Sharp citrus. A dank pine. Somewhat sweet smelling.

T- Bitter and palate busting. A hearty hoppiness at first, unsurprisingly. Huge notes of citrus, a lot of orange and some grapefruit. A lingering hop spicyness on this beer which is somewhat different given the hop flavor profile. A hint of pine as well. A touch of alcohol on the end but the sweet maltiness does a tiny bit to help off put the bold bitterness.

M- Bitter and some alcohol feel. A lingering hop spiciness.

O- An awesome DIPA. The guy in the store told me that this was the "most bitter beer in the store" and it does not disappoint. A hop bomb, and a lovely one at that.

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Photo of Glennlawless
3.55/5  rDev -14.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Poured into a frosty 16 oz pint glass.

A - from bottom to top it goes from a lighter hazy orange to a dark hazy orange with a frothy, creamy one finger head.

S - Smells so hoppy. Like pure citrus hop juice. Smelling peaches, pineapple, grapefruit. As it warmed in my glass i got a big whiff of caramel too. the maltyness made its presence! This was smelling from just after popping the cap in the bottle...after the pour the aroma actually mellowed a tad. Nice, inch seperated thin, line-like lacing going down the glass. This is really a good looking beer.

T - Wow. This is a hop explosion. crazy grapefruit going on. suppper bitter. It finishes with a lingering bitterness but not a crazy one that is going to scare you away surprisingly. This beer is 182 IBU's ; I was expecting my tongue to fall out haha. A little presence of alcohol slightly heats the back of your tongue after swallowing as well.

M - Slightly creamy, highly carbonated.

Overall i expected the beer to kill me, but for 10% and 182 ibu's, this beer is kind of drinkable. It has a good flavor and cascade and citrus hops blow your tongue away and alcohol comes in toward the end, but the malts seem to mellow it a little.All in all, this beer is good, and it is a must for hop-heads. im glad i picked it up.

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Photo of MoorBeerPlz
4.2/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Served from a 22 oz. bottle into a New Belgium globe glass... Made on 9/13/13.

A: Poured a hazy orange/gold with a copper hue in the right light. 1 finger of head was all I could muster even with an aggressive pour. This dropped off quickly to a large foam ring with sticky foam on the sides of the glass.

S: Lots going on here and the nose changes as the beer warms up. First for me is a big hop smell with some variety in hops type. Next up was citrus, especially grapefruit, with some peachy and other citrus-like notes. Finally I caught the pine and resin. As the beer warmed a little, I also caught some malty notes, although I wasn't thinking caramel at first.

T: For me, you get blasted with the hops and resins up front, then the grapefruit and other fruit/floral tastes come in, then the malts come to the rescue of your taste-buds and senses to try and balance the whole thing out. It also gave me an impression of a spiciness at the end. For me, this beer kept tasting better as it warmed up and the malts started taking a more prominent place in the overall taste. Although not noticed at first, the alcohol does start to come though after the beer warms a little but isn't overpowering.

M: Medium body, with a resinous, hoppy coating on the tongue that stays with you even as the malts try to come through. Lightly carbonated, which was surprising to me, but didn't detract from the overall taste. Hoppy/piney/spicy finish that I would consider dry.

O: If DIPA's/hoppy IPAs aren't your thing, then this beer may not taste that great to you. I like to keep an open mind and let the beer do the convincing. This beer is one of the stouter DIPAs I've tasted so far but I'm liking it and would certainly buy it again if the need arises. Not a sessionable beer for lightweights like me because of the higher alcohol but you may see it differently. All in all a really decent DIPA, and kudos to Port Brewing!

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Photo of flayedandskinned
4.28/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Bottled on 9/16/13
Poured into the Sierra Nevada/Dogfish IPA glass

Appearance: (4.25)
Pours a very hazy, translucent, peach tinged shade of gold with a wonderful thick, tightly bubbled and 3 fingers tall, off white head. Some actual raw hop particulate is can be seen floating in the body, buffeted by a vigorous, constant stream of carbonation. As the head very gradually recedes, it leaves a very thick, sticky coating of lacing behind.

Aroma: (4.25)
Wow, you can immediately tell the Port Brewing used a ton a varieties of hops in this beer; I can pick up notes of peach, apricot, grapefruit rind, tangerine, lemon, pine, some thyme, sweet basil, generic rose petals and some tropical tones of pineapple. The way that the noble hops contrast with some of the post millennial hops breed in the aroma is quite beguiling. Beneath the onslaught of hop aromatics is a soft, bready malt background. Some light alcohol phenols are present as the beer warms.

Taste: (4.25)
As soon as the beer lands on your palate, you are slapped with a gigantic hop presence; massive notes of peach, grapefruit, lemon rind, apricot and a distinctly spicy herbal character. These diverse hop flavors are thoroughly layered on your palate through the dry finish. Just before the long, bitter finish a hint of a very clean malt backbone does it's best to cushion your palate against the surmounting bitterness. The dry finish leaves lingering notes of resinous pine, lemon, rose, grapefruit and spicy garden herbs on your palate. Despite being 10%, the alcohol is very well hidden.

full bodied with moderately high carbonation. The lively carbonation, paired with the dry finish makes this a very quaff-able 10% IPA.

Overall: (4.25)
Wow, Port brewing really ran the entire hop gamut in this massive IPA, but they still managed to allow the consumer's palate to be able to pick out most of the 15 different hop varieties used. That said, I still feel that this beer would be even better if it had a more stripped down hop bill. This is definitely my favorite Port brewing IPA I've had so far. I definitely recommend checking this IPA out while you can!

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Photo of magictacosinus
4.32/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

Review #400. Poured out of a 22oz bottle into a tulip glass.

Pours a cloudy, orange-amber color that resembles freshly squeezed stone fruit juice of sorts - the sediment gathers at the bottom in large chunks, and as a result, the head rises about 4 fingers high, maintaining great retention and leaving behind chunks of lacing everywhere. This looks a lot like some of the best, freshest DIPAs I've ever had, like Heady Topper. It looks like a well made home brew and it's awesome for it.

The aroma is as lush as I expected it to be in its fresh condition - fruity, sweet, bready, and highly oily. Notes of peaches and nectarines, for starters, are big on this, but there's definitely some tropical elements at play, ranging from pineapple to green, under-ripe mangoes. There's a melon-like musty flavor, as well as loads of grass, pine, and light mint. The butterscotch backbone is highly present here, but it doesn't range into extreme sweetness, and indeed, keeps this from becoming a boozy or astringent train wreck. Toffee and sugar cane induced, but otherwise extremely dank, flavorful, and fruity. Quite a masterpiece in certain respects - reminds me of Heady Topper without the funky yeastiness at play.

The flavor is not necessarily as enlightening or refined as the aroma, but it's definitely impressive as far as DIPAs go, especially in the West Coast realm. Big notes of juicy papaya, guava, pineapple, peaches, apricots, cantaloupe, pears, and green apple open up in spades, followed by a buttery, toffee enhanced flavor that is sweet and silky in character. As it warms up, grapefruit and pine become ever more present. The sediment and yeast plays a big role in the complexity of flavors, but it does become surpassingly sweet as time goes by, especially on the boozy side. The alcohol burn does not hide itself in each sip, but it does elevate a lot of the flavors. Very well carbonated, and pretty thick, with a moist, damp characteristic that is fitting for the hoppy oiliness at work. I honestly wish it weren't as buttery as it is, but on the bright side, the notes of vanilla, almonds, and light baking soda are very welcome in terms of innovating a style that is often imitated, yet never this superior.

What a colossal beer - I'm so glad it started to show up in Nor Cal after all this time. It's a big one, however, and requires patience and perseverance in its consumption. It's very, very complex and over the top, but definitely intimidating in terms of its feel and high ABV. I do wish it were as user-friendly as I'd want it to be - the flavors are really incredible and this is best consumed fresh. I'd imagine this would fall off quicker than most DIPAs in the country. Recommended to all fans of West Coast DIPAs.

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Photo of hayesjw
3.74/5  rDev -10.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75

O - carbination is champagne fine. lacing remains light. color is clear amber. taste is balanced. bittering hops are subdued. im afraid im past due on a fine double and my enumicration reflects it. my ale was served in early October in a tulip draft for $7/$6 happy hour. i would enjoy again.

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Photo of atomic
3.25/5  rDev -22.1%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

A: All beer is beautiful, this one is cloudy golden color with some sediment.

S: Lots of foresty pines

T: Not all that impressed to be honest. Reminds me a lot of Sierra Nevada Hoptimum which also wasn't my favorite, so if thats what you like, disregard my rating. Pines and more pines, but not much else.

M: Too carbonated

Overall: Eh, not for me. I like a little bit of piney hops, but this is like drinking a christmas tree.

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Photo of ISmith87
4.22/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

A - Nice orange/amber color, pretty hazy (understandible though - I hear this is hopped with 15 different varieties?), minimal head, leaving little spots of lacing on the glass.

S - The hop aroma is so strong it pretty much hits you in the face the second you open the bottle. Grapefruit, peach, mango, pineapple, orange. Some caramel malt in the background.

T - Very sweet IPA, great hop flavors - grapefruit, pine, orange, pineapple. The sweetness is a nice caramel/sugar malt flavor that balances everything out. Little bit of alc taste.

M - The alcohol can be tasted a little bit. Aftertaste is incredibly hoppy, with bitterness and pine that sticks around forever. Medium mouth feel. Stick hop resin coats your mouth.

O - This is a great beer. It's different from the other Imperial IPAs with slightly less carbonation and more fruity hop aroma. I'd love to put it up against beers like Hop Stoopid, Hop Slam and Hoptimum and maybe some day I'll get to!

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Photo of joe1510
4.31/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

22oz Bomber

Recieved in trade from errantnight, thanks again Derek. The first beer of my last leg before reaching 300. I've been excited to try this for awhile now. Hop 15 pours a moderately hazed copper with prominent orange highlights throughout. A two finger dirty white head formed on the pour and fell to a frothy cap with a thick collar.
Left thin frothy drink lines after each sip.

The smell of this brew is wildly complex. Pure hoppiness in the nose. Layer upon layer of sweet tropical fruit juiciness. Pineapple, orange, grapefruit in that order with a sprinkling of pine. There is a touch of caramel maltiness in the background and spicy alcohol on the backend that compliments nicely. But this beer is all about the hop.

All that wonderful hoppiness comes through in the flavor as well. The caramel maltiness lays the foundation but the hop goodness quickly kicks the malt aside without consideration. All the aformentioned hop aromas are even bigger in the taste than aroma. The pine sap comes through big on the finish along with an aspirin like bitterness. This one will shred up your tongue pretty good.

Body is on the heavy side of medium but comes across incredibly silky smooth. Carbonation is sluggish letting every bit of hop resin coat your tongue on its way through. Lingering bitterness on the finish.

I would have absolutely no problem drinking this beer all day long. Every sip makes me want another and the hop complexity keeps me coming back for more.

A great IIPA from Pizza Port. The use of 15 different hop varities was something that had me drooling as soon as I learned of such a nectar. I couldn't wait to try it. Now, I need someone to send a case my way.

Reviewed: 10/28/07

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Photo of brewskis
4.13/5  rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Pours a hazy, burnt orange color with a rocky three finger off white head. Surprisingly big head for the high alcohol content. Head sticks around and leaves a thick blanket of lacing after it diminishes. Smells of pine, grass, tangerine, lemon, lime, just lots of citric qualities and lots of earthiness on the nose. Very resinous and bitter but get a little carmel malt and some butterscotch in the background in the smell. Taste starts with the citrus fruits like grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, as well as some floral notes. Also get the some carmel or toffee up front. Then in the middle you get more of the sweetness of the carmel malt, as well as the same citrus flavors and floral from before. Pretty juicy, yet subdued in terms of bitterness thus far. Then on the finish the bitterness comes like a rush. You get some citrus fruits with grapefruit being the strongest flavor, accompanied with a much larger dose of grass and resinous pine. Definite alcohol flavor on the finish, along with some sweet malts. I’ve had many other dipas as this level of alcohol that do a much better job hiding it. Very chewy from the hop oils. Very biting and abrasive bitterness that lasts in your mouth. Has a wonderful creamy mouthfeel that works well with the bitterness. As it warms, more of the carmel malt shows through and becomes a little sweeter. Full body with a sticky and oily texture. Not the most balanced double ipa, but Port was not going for that. They wanted to show off the hop, and they definitely succeeded in doing that. A very intense and surprisingly somewhat balanced double ipa.

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Photo of Bauzen
4.1/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

This beer is too over the top for even the most experienced and seasoned DIPA drinkers. Everything about it is over-the-top in ways that don't promote one single flavor profile, but all flavors simultaneously. You get smacked with malt, hops (obviously), yeast, and alcohol. Drinking this beer is a lot like drinking a straight-up hard liquor after a while. Fun experience, but best shared with friends, not on your own. It gets tiresome.

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Photo of Samuel906
3.95/5  rDev -5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

The best way I can describe hop 15 is it is more than a DIPA. Take everything you know about the DIPAs you've had in the past, and add more... More head, more aroma, more hops, more flavor. If there were such a thing as Triple IPAs this would be at the tip of the TIPA list. This is a very malty, bready, yeasty beer, thick and chewy. Sweet clover honey and malt up front with tons of hops and lots of grapefruity citrus at the end. Very resinous.

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4.12/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

On bottle.Really near than Triple Ipa.Strong semell and flavor.Hazy orange medium body with a little yellow head.Low carbonation.Smell with 15 diferent hops is very complex with diferent fruits and floral notes.Flavor is strong with the 10% but is very easy to drink and higher ejoyable.Of course is a awesome beer.

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Hop 15 from Port Brewing
4.17 out of 5 based on 1,850 ratings.
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Our floor plans are optimized for seamless and luxurious living. San Marin offers features like Updated Apartments, large patios, Breakfast Bar, Wood Grain-style Flooring, large closets, Two-tone paint, Accent Wall Colors available. Whether you like to entertain friends, work from home, spend time with that special someone or appreciate your time alone -- you can have the apartment home and lifestyle you deserve at San Marin.

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The Pradera

851 Greenside Drive Richardson, TX 75080

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BANTU-Bantu p.n. The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The culture of Bethel is one that encourages students to try new things and to think critically.
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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Bethel College senior Hank Unruh, Newton, crossed the hump to qualify for the 2014 American Forensic Association-National Individual Events Tournament.

The Thresher forensics squad traveled to back-to-back tournaments the first two weekends of February.

Unruh, junior Leland Brown, Galveston, Texas, and sophomore Hannah Brinker, Shawnee, competed in the Border Wars Swing Feb. 1-2, hosted by Kansas Wesleyan University and Cameron University, Lawton, Okla., on the KWU campus in Salina.

Bethel was one of 14 others schools in the KWU half, and one of nine schools in the CU half.

In the Sunday tournament, Unruh finished 3rd in Impromptu Speaking, 4th in Extemporaneous Speaking and was next out in After Dinner Speaking, while Brown was 7th in Dramatic Interpretation.

The three students, along with freshmen Jacob Miller, Westmoreland, and Clinton Unruh, Newton, were on the campus of Hutchinson Community College Feb. 8-9 for the Zombie Apocalypse Swing, with hosts HCC and Sterling College.

A total of 12 schools competed both days.

Hank Unruh’s1st-place finish in Impromptu Speaking in the Saturday tournament qualified him for AFA-NIET. He is the second qualifier after Miller.

AFA-NIET will be held on the campus of Arizona State University and is tentatively scheduled for April 4-7.

Unruh was also 4th in After Dinner Speaking while Brown placed 5th in Dramatic Interpretation.

In the Sunday tournament, Unruh finished 3rd in Impromptu Speaking and 4th in After Dinner Speaking. Brown was next out in Dramatic Interpretation.

Bethel College is the only private, liberal arts college in Kansas listed in the 2013-14 analysis of top colleges and universities in the United States, and is the highest-ranked Kansas college in the Washington Monthly annual college guide for 2013-14. The four-year liberal arts college is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. For more information, see

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Humminbird Helix 7 Fishfinder

Humminbird Helix 7 Fishfinder

Humminbird Helix 7 Fishfinder

B&H # HUH7S MFR # 409790-1
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  • 7" Display with LED Backlight
  • DualBeam Plus Sonar
  • SwitchFire Technology
  • 4000W PTP, 500W RMS
  • Depth Reading: 1500'
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You can expect more hook-ups on your next outing when you have the Helix 7 Fishfinder from Humminbird installed on your boat. This fishfinder features DualBeam Plus Sonar which lets you choose between a wide coverage area, or a narrower cone for more detail. SwitchFire technology allows you to choose clear or max mode; to filter out noise or show more detail using an advanced algorithm that filters out interference. This system has an RMS power output of 500W, and a peak to peak output of 4000W, providing an accurate representation of the bottom down to 1500', which is displayed on the 7" diagonal color screen. The transom-mounted transducer features multiple coverage angles of 20 & 60° @ -10db, so that you can adjust the coverage to suit depth and angling conditions for the best returns.

  • Display provides bright, clear color images for easy viewing in harsh sunlight
  • 7" diagonal LED-backlit display
  • Shows temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius
  • Sonar recording
  • Split screen
  • Split screen bottom lock
  • Large digits view
  • Wide/narrow cone split screen
  • Custom view selections
  • Custom digital readout
  • Temperature alarm
  • Freeze frame
  • Selective fish ID+
  • X-Press menu system
  • Gimbal or optional in-dash mount
  • Sonar
  • DualBeam PLUS soanr combines two beams for great detail and a wide coverage area
  • SwitchFire Sonar allows you to choose between clear or max mode to filter out noise or show more detail
  • Clear mode uses algorithms to reject interference
  • Max mode turns the sensitivity up to display all signal returns for more detail
  • In the Box
    Humminbird Helix 7 Fishfinder
  • Display Unit
  • Transducer and Cable
  • Gimbal Mount
  • Limited 1-Year Warranty
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    Display Size (Diagonal) 7" / 17.8 cm
    Display Type Color TFT
    Display Colors 256
    Sonar Sonar Standard: DualBeam PLUS
    Sonar Coverage: 20 & 60° @ -10db
    Sonar Frequency: 200/83 kHz
    Depth 1500'
    Power Output Peak to Peak 4000W
    RMS 500W
    Cable Length Transducer cable 20' / 6.1 m
    Transducer Mount Transom
    Temperature Sensor Yes, on transducer
    GPS Support No
    GPS Logger No
    Stored Waypoints N/A
    Stored Routes N/A
    Tracks/Points N/A
    Card Slot No
    Power Draw 800 mA
    Power Input 10 to 20 VDC
    Dimensions 10.5 x 5.8 x 3.7" / 26.7 x 14.7 x 9.4 cm
    Weight Not specified by the manufacturer

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FLIR E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager (NIST Certificed)

FLIR E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager (NIST Certificed)

FLIR E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager (NIST Certificed)

B&H # FL645010101N MFR # 64501-0101-NIST
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The E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager from FLIR comes equipped with a 160 x 120 FPA uncooled microbolometer. The imager lets you perform IR inspections, create detailed reports, and share your findings quickly. Using FLIR's Wi-Fi app, you can connect your E-Series camera to a smartphone or a tablet. The app also lets you stream live video to your device so that customers can watch along. Additionally, you can import radiometric JPEGs, adjust levels and color, add measurement tools, then send images off via email.

Another integrated wireless technology is MeterLink. MeterLink technology lets you receive diagnostics data via Bluetooth, from compatible clamp and moisture meters, directly to E-Series cameras to embed extra information into thermal images as you capture.

The E-Series touchscreen provides an intuitive interface that takes full advantage of the entire 3.5" display for easy access to diagnostics tools. The display supports auto-orientation to keep measurement and other data overlays upright, no matter how you hold the camera. Thanks to picture-in-picture mode, you can overlay thermal images onto digital scenes for extra location documentation. Also, the imager lets you add up to three box areas and three moveable spots, using the touchscreen, to gather more detailed temperature information.

This E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager comes with a Certificate Traceable to NIST. A traceable certificate is issued when a product or device has been calibrated against another device that was calibrated to a NIST SRM. While not compared directly with a NIST SRM, the calibration can be traced back to a device that was calibrated to a NIST SRM. This calibration service is recommended for customers that do not require detailed before and after measurement data.

Onboard Digital Camera
  • 3.1MP camera for providing clear visible light reference pictures
  • Built-in LED lamp that doubles as a flashlight
  • Laser pointer to mark locations
Interchangeable Lenses and Manual Focus
  • Optional wide-angle and telephoto optics let you capture more of a scene in one shot or get in closer to measure smaller, distant targets
  • Full focus control
Higher Temperature Range
  • Lets you measure hotter-running equipment for a wider detection range
  • -4 to 1202°F detection range
General Features
  • MSX thermal image enhancement lets you see structural features, numbers, and other key visual details
  • 160 x 120 display resolution
UPC: 845188006327
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FLIR E-Series E40 160 x 120 Thermal Imager (NIST Certificed)
  • Certificate Traceable to NIST
  • Limited 2-Year Warranty on Parts and Labor
  • Limited 5-Year Warranty on Battery
  • Limited 10-Year Warranty on Detector
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    Temperature Range -4 to 1202°F (-20 to 650°C)
    Camera 3.1 MP with LED lamp and laser pointer
    Laser Classification: Class 2
    Semiconductor AlGalnP Diode Laser: 1 mW / 635 nm (red)
    Field of View 25° x 19°
    Focus Manual
    Minimum Focus Distance: 1.3' (0.4 m)
    Spectral Range 7.5 to 13 μm
    Recording Codec MPEG 4
    Frame Rate 60 Hz
    Digital Zoom 2x continuous
    Thermal Sensitivity (NETD) <32.13°F (0.07°C) at 86°F (30°C)
    Display Built-in 3.5" (8.9 cm) color LCD
    Detector Type Focal Plane Array (FPA): Uncooled microbolometer
    Resolution: 160 x 120
    Picture-in-Picture Fixed
    Image Modes Thermal, visual, MSX, and image gallery
    Annotation Voice (60 sec)
    Text comments
    Detection Area Moveable Spot:
    3 x Spotmeter

    Area Box:
    3 x Area box (full image with min/max/avg)
    Measuring Capabilities Delta T temperature differential
    Communication Interface Mini-USB, USB Type-A, composite
    Video, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
    Image Storage >1000 radiometric JPEG images on SD memory card (not included)
    Controls Mode selector, color palettes, configure image info, units, language, date and time formats, and image gallery
    Measurement Mode:
    Auto hot/cold spot, Isotherm (above/below/interval), insulation, and humidity alarms

    Reflected ambient temperature and emissivity correction
    Battery Type Li-ion
    Operating Time Approximately 4 hours; display shows the battery status
    Charging In-camera AC adapter
    2-bay charging system
    Certification 25G, IEC 60068-2-29/ 2G, IEC 60068-2
    IP54; EN/UL/CSA/PSE 60950-1
    Drop Resistance 6.6' (2 m)
    Dimensions 9.7 x 3.8 x 7.2" (24.6 x 9.7 x 18.3 cm) including battery
    Weight Approximately 1.82 lb (0.83 kg), including battery

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FSR FL-710 5.25" Deep Floor Box

FSR FL-710 5.25" Deep Floor Box

FSR FL-710 5.25" Deep Floor Box

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The FSR FL-710 5.25" Deep Floor Box is ideal for auditoriums, stages or other venues with carpeted floors over concrete where it is necessary to connect a number of boxes in series or to pass cables through the box without disturbing the connectors inside.

A floor box provides ready access to cabling, coupled with the ability to stow and hide it when not in use, while retaining use of the floor space.

The box features a large hinged cover which folds back for user access to cables and connector plates, which also incorporates a smaller hinged door for utilizing cable with minimal open box exposure. The welded steel box features an angled interior plate with one single and one double gang opening.

The FL-710 ships with a temporary construction cover which must be replaced with a finished cover. Oak, black, aluminum and brass finished covers may be purchased separately.

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FSR FL-710 5.25" Deep Floor Box
  • Temporary Construction Cover (Finished Covers Available Separately)
  • 1 Year Manufacturer's Warranty
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    Dimensions (LxWxD) 14 x 8 x 5.25" (35.5 x 20.3 x 13.3 cm)
    Weight 18 lbs (8.1 kg)

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Psalm 95:1–11

Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalm 95:1

Imagine meeting someone famous and having to keep that news to yourself. Or what if you had pictures of your first child and no one to show them to? Praise and thanksgiving beg for company; joining with other voices makes the worship so much sweeter!

Psalm 95 tells us to find companions as we praise: “Come, let us sing . . . let us shout . . . let us bow down . . . let us kneel before the LORD our Maker” (Psalm 95:1,6). Marriage gives us a companion in praise—someone to share all the exciting details, someone to cheer and sing and laugh with before the Lord.

Psalms is our songbook; the psalms, our cue cards for praising God. Psalm 95 puts words in our mouths to express the joy in our hearts. And if our songs have gone all mumbly and dull, this psalm helps us rejuvenate our singing together.

This song has four stanzas that give us a structure for our praise. Verses 1–2 have us on our feet, singing at the tops of our voices to our champion, the Lord. The reason for such exuberance is described in the second stanza, in verses 3–5. We worship by picturing great mountains, pounding seas and majestic sunsets. And we come away ready to trust our mountain-moving God, our sea-parting Savior, our world-holding King.

We can praise God in a similar way, but we sing this kind of praise best when we gather with God’s people in church. Don’t miss such celebrations!

The third stanza, verses 6–7a, is an entirely different kind of melody; it is soft and thoughtful. This music bows our heads and brings us to our knees. We sing softly that the great God who made us is the Good Shepherd who feeds and leads us, who guards and guides our lives.

Try worshiping by recounting God’s provision—your first apartment, for example, or unexpected money when things were very tight. Praising God for his “shepherd care” is important for our future, for it is how we learn to trust God to guide us through the next dark valley or be our protection in a troubled tomorrow.

Psalm 95 ends in a minor key (verses 7b–11), reminding us of what happens when we fail to let worship shape our will and our ways. Israel had sung songs about God’s greatness and care when he had miraculously delivered them from Egypt and provided for them in the desert. But later, when God didn’t come through for them as quickly as they wanted, the people lost faith in the God they had sung about, and they ended up being prohibited from entering the promised land, the place where God intended to give them “rest” (verse 11).

What a great reminder to be full of praise—praise that is both exuberant and humble. When we worship God in our times of triumph, it prepares us to trust God in our times of struggle and prevents us from hardening our hearts toward him.
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  • How do we worship together with other believers? What could we do to worship more effectively with them?
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    I highly HIGHLY recommend that you all switch over to Thermos! It's much more updated and more likely to get support because developers work with it! I use it and it's great! If you don't know how to manually change jars in your server thru FTP, look for a guide (there are alot) or just ask me on my Discord.

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How to make Gmail accounts without SMS verification

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    Well, let me tell you how I do it every day without deleting cookies or anything.

    You can do it with proxy or without proxy. For me it works everytime. So, let's start:
    1. Go to gmail.com and hit the sing up page

    2. For first and last name I use imdb.com to search names from movies or names of the actors, I combine them, I use a unique name that I believe is not used by anyone. If google will detect that name in their database they will require SMS verification. So go with a unique name, not the popular ones like John Doe or whatever. If you will use the same name on other account they will require SMS verification so stick with a unique one. Everything need to be unique.

    3. For login name I don't use numbers and is unique, I will not use that username again. I only use dot in username. If you will create another username similar to that, again, they will detect and they will ask for SMS verification on both accounts.

    4. Password. I use a unique password for every account. If you will make a few accounts with the same password they will detect them and they will ask you for SMS verification, so try a unique password. I don't use number in passwords. And I don't use similar passwords.

    5. Security Question. Write your own question. Don't use it in other account.

    6. I don't use recovery email.

    7. The rest it is at your choice.

    I think that at this part you understand that your whole profile must be unique. If you use the same name, password, similar username with other accounts they will always request SMS verification. Be unique and you will not even need a proxy. I do it every day and I can't even remeber when they requested me SMS verification.
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Are We Now or Have We Ever Been… a Democracy?

A large question rears its head as we move toward the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer — to what extent is it possible to have a democracy, or even a democratic republic, in a country whose population is in excess of 320 million? When the Constitution was written, we were slightly over three million, not counting slaves that might have added another half million or so — in all, approximately a third the population of present day Los Angeles County.

The more people the more possibility of chicanery, you would think, and the less possibility of any serious direct democratic representation.

  • infedel

    United States of America is a Constitutional Representative Republic. Our Fore Fathers knew the evil of the democracy mob rule….the marxists are twisting history and brainwashing our youth…smack them back to reality.

  • Drunk_by_Noon

    I had always assumed that people who said America was a “democracy” were just lazy, or didn’t pay attention in civics class, but now I’m starting to see that claim in a different light, and I’m more likely to correct someone that says that.
    The U.S. was never intended to be a “democracy”.
    We were ALWAYS envisioned as a Constitutional Republic, and only as a Constitutional Republic.
    When I hear someone say they want to “democratize” America more, to my ears, it sounds as unnerving as if they say we need to be more “sovietized”.

    • El Martyachi

      Was that you who said that every other national anthem sounds like “the internationale”? #truth

      • Drunk_by_Noon

        I don’t know if that was me, but there is some truth to that now that I think about it. So it probably wasn’t me, but they were probably right.

        • El Martyachi

          It makes me inwardly chuckle sometimes and seems like something you’d say.. 😛

          • Drunk_by_Noon

            I do say lot’s of crazy shit sometimes. 😉

  • Alain

    It isn’t the size of the population that kills democracy. To make a long story short it is when politicians are corrupt combined with the number of takers outnumbering the number of workers. It is the same as giving small kids the run of the candy store.

  • Brett_McS

    I would hope not. I’ve seen enough of “the general public” to not want them to have any power over me, thank you very much.

  • Norman_In_New_York

    There is a lot of hairsplitting here as to what constitutes a democracy. I am satisfied that I live in a free country because, (1) I have freedom of conscience, (2) I am free to petition the government to redress my grievances, (3) I am guaranteed the right of due legal process, and (4) the losers of elections accept defeat.

    • Drunk_by_Noon

      That is an unusual thing when compared to much of the rest of the world, but I also fear that we are rapidly sling into an era of being so informationally and culturally managed that we assume that we are freer than we really are.

      • Minicapt

        I’m not free; I just haven’t had the right offer …

  • Hard Little Machine

    At the foundation of America perhaps as much as 15% of the total population had the vote. Compared to say Victorian England where only 10% could vote. So in relative terms America was seen as a rabble, a mob, a democracy, yes.Today let’s say for the sake of argument that 50% of the population is eligible to vote. And only half them bother to. But who do they vote for? It doesn’t matter and the rabble has no voice in that. That’s pre determined. America is slightly less rigged than Iran.


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Who knows what goes on in the New York Fed? We do, now, sort of.

Secret Fed Tapes Recorded Goldman's Capital Game

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was an editor of Dealbreaker, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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The New York Fed/Goldman Sachs secret tapes are the sort of thing where you'll mostly get out of them what you bring to them, so it's sort of pointless for me to tell you what to think. (Do read/listen to the story though! It's fascinating, whatever your priors.)

Instead I'll just tell you what I bring to the story, which is that I used to sell corporate equity derivatives. So I was intrigued by this:

On Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at 3:54 p.m., a senior Goldman official sent an email to the on-site Fed regulators - including Silva, Segarra and Segarra's legal and compliance manager, Johnathon Kim. Goldman wanted to notify them about a fast-moving transaction with a large Spanish bank, Banco Santander. Spanish regulators had signed off on the deal, but Goldman was reaching out to its own regulators to see whether they had any questions.

At the time, European banks were shaky, particularly the Spanish ones. To shore up confidence, the European Banking Authority was demanding that banks hold more capital to offset potential future losses. Meeting these capital requirements was at the heart of the Goldman-Santander transaction.

Under the deal, Santander transferred some of the shares it held in its Brazilian subsidiary to Goldman. This effectively reduced the amount of capital Santander needed. In exchange for a fee from Santander, Goldman would hold on to the shares for a few years and then return them. The deal would help Santander announce that it had reached its proper capital ratio six months ahead of the deadline.

In the recordings, one New York Fed employee compared it to Goldman "getting paid to watch a briefcase." Silva states that the fee was $40 million and that potentially hundreds of millions more could be made from trading on the large number of shares Goldman would hold.

What is going on here? Well, here is what Santander said on Jan. 9, 2012:

Santander reached in December 2011 an agreement (implemented during the first week of 2012) to transfer 4.41% of Santander Brazil to a major international financial institution who will deliver such shares to holders of convertible bonds issued in October, 2010, by Banco Santander, when these mature, pursuant to the terms of said convertible bonds.

That's part of a press release announcing that Santander had reached a 9 percent core capital ratio ahead of the European Banking Authority's deadline by raising some 15 billion euros of capital, some of it from this transaction. Here's Banco Santander Brasil's announcement of the trade at the same time. And here's the announcement of those convertible (really exchangeable ) bonds in October 2010.

The trade starts with those bonds. These are only sort of bonds. There were $2.8 billion of them, $2.7 billion of which were sold to Qatar Holding. They carried a 6.75 percent coupon and matured in October 2013. On maturity, they just converted automatically into a fixed number of shares of Santander Brasil, which was (and is) a public company in Brazil of which Santander was (and is) a majority owner. So Qatar gave Santander money, and Santander paid interest on it for three years, but Santander never had to pay it back. Instead it would just give Qatar some shares it owned in its Brazilian subsidiary.

Here is a Bloomberg News story from the time the bonds were sold. Effectively, Santander just sold Qatar a chunk of its Brazilian subsidiary, at a small discount to the market price, and paid Qatar $184 million a year for three years for buying the stock. Why would Santander do this? It's a bit weird; you could just sell Qatar the stock. I don't really know the answer; two possibilities are:

  • It was an economics/optics decision: The Qataris wanted a big discount to buy the stake, and Santander would rather pay them $184 million a year for three years in "interest" than give them a $500 million discount on the share price, because selling shares at a 20 percent discount looks bad to the rest of your shareholders.
  • Santander wanted to "own" the Santander Brasil shares for an extra three years, while having the economic effect of having sold them to the Qataris. I don't know why that would matter; even after the sale, Santander owned more than 75 percent of Santander Brasil. Perhaps it's tax-related.

Anyway, Santander didn't just sell the stock in its subsidiary. If it had, it would have raised $2.8 billion of regulatory capital. Selling equity for cash pretty straightforwardly raises capital. Instead, though, it did this thing that is economically identical (ish) to selling the stock for cash. So, economically, it should have raised capital. Everyone figured it would raise capital. Again, the Bloomberg News story at the time:

Madrid-traded Santander shares rose today as investors speculated the sale may reduce the likelihood of a capital increase, according to Daragh Quinn, an analyst at Nomura International Plc in London.
"The market's conclusion will be that the more they strengthen group capital, the less likely it is that they will have to consider a capital increase."

But the investors were wrong! Sort of. What happened is that the European Banking Authority did a capital exercise in 2011, a year after these things were issued. In that exercise, the EBA decided that all of the big banks needed to have 9 percent core tier 1 capital, and did not count "hybrid instruments" such as these weird bonds. So if you look at Santander's results on that exercise, it had a 12.9 billion euro capital shortfall (15.3 billion with a "sovereign capital buffer" that doesn't concern us here), but an extra 12.8 billion euros of "hybrid instruments." The problem is that this thing that counted as capital no longer counted as the right kind of capital for the latest set of regulatory tests. There's a bright yellow line, and these things fall below it:

The EBA announced those results in December 2011, and a couple of weeks later Santander had solved the problem. There's an obvious simple solution to the Santander Brasil portion of the problem: Collapse the exchangeable bonds, give Qatar the shares, and poof, they are no longer "hybrids," they are common equity capital. But the Qataris were getting $184 million a year in interest. Why would they give that up? So the simple solution didn't happen.

Instead Santander went with the Goldman solution. The idea seems to have been:

  • Santander gives Goldman the Santander Brasil shares underlying the exchangeable bonds.
  • Goldman agrees to pay off the exchangeable bonds at maturity (with the shares it just got).
  • Santander no longer has any obligation to pay off the exchangeables at maturity, so they're no longer hybrids for capital purpose. It's sold the shares! They're common equity now.
  • Therefore it can move this transaction above the yellow line and get credit for it as part of the 9 percent core tier 1 capital.

The exact mechanics are murky to me, but that's the gist. And you can see why the Fed supervisors said that Goldman was paid to watch a briefcase. Santander gave it some shares that it had already promised to the Qataris. Goldman's only job was to take the shares and deliver them to the Qataris in a year. There was little risk and no economics. For this, Goldman was paid $40 million.

On the other hand, "Spanish regulators had signed off on the deal." And why shouldn't they? The thing is:

  • Before this deal, Santander had received cash (from Qatar), and agreed to sell common shares (to Qatar), but wasn't getting capital credit from its regulators.
  • After this deal, Santander had received cash (from Qatar), and agreed to sell common shares (to Qatar), and was getting capital credit from its regulators, and Goldman was floating around vaguely getting $40 million.

Goldman's vague floaty intervention had little or no economic substance, but flipped the switch from "regulators don't give capital credit" to "regulators give capital credit." One thing you might care about is: Which was the right answer? There are certainly people who think that anything other than actually issued common equity should get zero capital credit, but I am not one of them. To me, a deal where Santander gets cash in exchange solely for an obligation to issue a fixed number of shares of common stock is an equity deal, and should get capital credit. So Goldman just helped Santander and its regulators get to the right answer.

That doesn't mean it's okay though. You could readily object that it's sort of a bad idea for a bank to do something with little or no economic substance just to satisfy regulatory requirements. That was the Fed supervisor's view:

Silva did not like the transaction. He acknowledged it appeared to be "perfectly legal" but thought it was bad to help Santander appear healthier than it might actually be.

"It's pretty apparent when you think this thing through that it's basically window dressing that's designed to help Banco Santander artificially enhance its capital position," he told his team before a big meeting on the topic with Goldman executives.

It's silly to get hung up on whether this made Santander "appear healthier than it might actually be," or whether it "artificially" enhanced Santander's capital. There is no actual health. There is no natural capital. These are all abstract, artificial constructs, and regulators just get to decide what should count as capital. I think Santander's exchangeables should have counted as capital with or without the Goldman window-dressing. You might think they shouldn't have counted either way. The Spanish regulators counted them with the dressing but not without. None of this is real or natural. It's just a game, and there are rules, and the regulators set them, and then the banks get to play. And Goldman helped Santander win.

Or ... wait. Is that not how it's supposed to go? One conclusion you might draw from the tapes is that the regulators and the banks had a very different conception of what social practice they were engaged in. Goldman was helping Santander play a game against its regulators, while the New York Fed just wanted to be friends with Goldman and not make too much trouble. It certainly makes it easier to win a game if the other side doesn't know it's playing.

  1. OKAY BUT DOWN HERE WE CAN TALK. No, seriously, I don't know what to think. My quick reaction this morning -- that it's always very hard to tell if a whistleblower who didn't get along with her colleagues is a courageous rebel or an annoying auto-contrarian -- still seems mostly right, though reading the "This American Life" transcript, I'm inclined to be more on Carmen Segarra's side. Like, she was not alone in thinking that the old-line Fed guys were pretty complacent and supine, and her boss's, "You know we fussed at 'em pretty good" is pretty pathetic. No one really has anything bad to say about her professionalism or her conclusions. And her story dovetails so perfectly with the previous report on the New York Fed's cultural failings that it's hard not to think she was right, even if she was sometimes annoying.

    Still, you can see the other side. The obsession with whether or not Goldman had a conflict of interest policy or not seems dumb and counterproductive. It had a lame document that it called a conflict of interest policy. Was that a lame conflict of interest policy, or no policy at all? Why would you care? Isn't the right approach to try to fix it, not argue about this semantic point?

    Separately from the side-taking, there's the question of: Is the New York Fed too supine in regulating big banks? And this is hard to answer from this evidence, which is limited and biased. But I think the basic critique of the supervisory culture -- that it's too focused on building consensus and not rocking the boat -- is made pretty strongly here. Like, one reason that Segarra may have annoyed her colleagues is not that she was annoying but that she just came from banking, where people are supposed to challenge their bosses and try to get the right answer. David Beim, who wrote the earlier report on New York Fed culture, quotes an examiner saying, "Until I know what my boss thinks, I don't want to tell you." That would never fly at Goldman Sachs!

    Or there's this:

    Segarra had worked previously at Citigroup, MBNA and Société Générale. She was accustomed to meetings that ended with specific action items.

    At the Fed, simply having a meeting was often seen as akin to action, she said in an interview. "It's like the information is discussed, and then it just ends up in like a vacuum, floating on air, not acted upon."

    Beim said he found the same dynamic at work in the lead up to the financial crisis. Fed officials noticed the accumulating risk in the system. "There were lengthy presentations on subjects like that," Beim said. "It's just that none of those meetings ever ended with anyone saying, 'And therefore let's take the following steps right now.'"

    That makes an obvious intuitive sense. If you're a bank, you have to do things: Every day, you have to do transactions and make money. If you're a bank supervisor, all you really have to do is know things: All you're measured on each day is "did your bank not blow up"? So when nothing happens, that's a good day, and knowing things feels like doing things. And so even when you really do have to do a thing, you decide that knowing things is a good enough substitute. That does seem like a culture problem.

  2. Also, obvious disclaimer: I used to work at Goldman Sachs -- doing this sort of stuff! -- and I still own a bit of restricted stock.

  3. For connoisseurs, a convertible bond is when Company X sells a bond that turns into Company X stock. An exchangeable bond is when Company Y sells a bond that turns into Company Z stock. Santander were not connoisseurs.

  4. The conversion price for the bonds was 23.75 reais per share, versus a 24.88 last close before the deal.

  5. It doesn't seem like this would work for U.S. tax purposes, but I have no views on Spanish (Brazilian?) tax law. Here is a lovely, and not too dissimilar, tax trade, by the way.

    A third possibility is that Santander wanted to retain optionality for three years on whether the shares underlying the mandatory exchangeable would come from its stake or from newly issued Santander Brasil shares. That's boring but possible. Obviously these reasons can overlap.

  6. I mean, presumably the interest is still a liability, but at this point there's only $184 million of it left, so it pales compared to the $2.8 billion of principal.

  7. The mechanics are presumably that (1) Santander agreed to give Goldman the shares, and (2) Goldman agreed to assume Santander's obligations under the mandatory exchangeables. One possibility for part (1) is that Santander sold the shares to Goldman in a forward, so that no actual shares changed hands: Santander just agreed to deliver them in 2013, when Goldman had agreed to settle the exchangeables, and the forward sale was enough to count as capital for Spanish regulators. Another possibility is that Santander delivered them in January 2012, and just left the exchangeable as Goldman's problem. Part (2), how exactly the exchangeable became Goldman's problem, is also a mystery to me; the exchangeable documents don't seem to be public but normally bonds don't let you just substitute in a new obligor.

  8. Also for getting it done in December 2011 -- allowing Santander to say that it had this capital as of its 2011 annual report. In the "This American Life" piece, Carmen Segarra is skeptical about the deal being done over a major Spanish holiday on the weekend of Jan. 7-8, but that's not even the point. The deal was agreed to -- at least, so Santander said -- just before the New Year, presumably for end-of-year balance-sheet reasons.

    Was there risk? Oh sure probably. I mean, you'd think that a mandatory equity contract and a mandatory equity contract would cancel each other out; Goldman sits between two pretty much non-credit trades. But probably there's some imaginable creepy bankruptcy scenario where Goldman owes one side but can't collect from the other. It's pretty tail though.

  9. Carmen Segarra thought it was silly too:

    Privately, Segarra saw little sense in Silva's preoccupation with the question of whether "should" applied to the Santander deal. In an interview, she said it seemed to her that Silva and the other examiners who worked under him tended to focus on abstract issues that were "fuzzy" and "esoteric" like "should" and "reputational risk."

    Segarra believed that Goldman had more pressing compliance issues -- such as whether executives had checked the backgrounds of the parties to the deal in the way required by anti-money laundering regulations.

    Do you think this is right, by the way? Like, how do you prioritize:

    • legal but sketchy efforts to help a big Spanish bank optimize its regulatory capital versus
    • running anti-money-laundering background checks on that big Spanish bank?

    Like, which is more likely and more dangerous: That Santander runs into capital trouble and this trade looks like a bad effort to hide a capital hole, or that Santander is just a bunch of money launderers? Are abstract issues like reputational risk actually "esoteric" compared to AML compliance?

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg View's editorial board or Bloomberg LP, its owners and investors.

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Miguel Cotto vs Canelo Alvarez next? You better believe it’s happening after last night’s emphatic beat down victory for the Puerto Rican boxing great.

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