Full Sail Hopocity

Formerly brewed at Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Hood River, Oregon USA

22oz, brewers reserve 2004, bought at a discount...so it isn’t the freshest...huge foaming head, tough to control...lots of carbonation and thick lace, slightly hazy beer. It doesn’t seem right to me, the aroma is medicinal, phenolic, and hoppy...maybe that comment down the screen about cilantro is right...just odd...after that, nothing much happens with the beer...there just isn’t much flavor to it, save from something medicinal hops, bitterness doesn’t even stand out, nothing really does. that’s too bad.

pours nicely w/ decent head, deep golden in color, citrusy slightly herbal aroma, light mouthfell, slight maltiness as the beer warms, flavor dominated by cacade hops, citrus, somewhat dry lingering finish. overall enjoyable...

’04 bottle. Cloudy amber liquid, voluminous white head. Herbal sroma: cilantro, corn stalk sweetness, and light grapefruit. Hardly any malt sweetness in the aroma. The flavor is all relatively weak hops with some weak pale malt thrown in. Couldn’t understand what this beer was trying to do. Light and uninteresting.

Ap: extremely bubbly on open and pour… very thick foamy white head that disapted very slowly w/ lacing down the glass sides. Poured a light golden color a little cloudy Ar: grapefruit and northwestern hops very crisp a touch of grass in the scent Pa: good carbonation a bit dry on the tongue nice full body Flvr: a bit dry heavy bitter hoppy flavor no malts fairly simple Ovrl: a very fresh clean taste, great smell, but the taste was defintally lacking, nothing except hops and not really a powerful hops, I think I’ve had farts more complex than this beer. thanks to Dave.

Had a nice full lacy head. Nice copper/gold color. Bubbled like champagne. A bit cloudy. Smelled like strong grapefruit with nothing else. Palate... eh. Flavor was of grassy and grapefruit hops. This beer rates high, but I don’t understand why. It was too plain and boring.

crystal clear golden body. Big carbonation, thin glossy white head. Pale malts, some floral tone, big citrus nose. Dry malt character underlies a bitter, resinous, grassy fresh hop profile. dark roastiness comes through the citrucy bitter hops

on tap at the pilsner room in portland. it can be a bit hard to find things to say about standard apa’s like this one. anyways, pine and lychee aroma, dark golden appearance, pretty sweet, grapefruit lemonade, plenty of bitterness, perfectly good

Deep gold almost amber in color, slightly cloudy with a fluffy, white head. Aroma of spicy, grapefruity, floral hops that is overall delicate and almost ethereal. Flavor contains grapefruit pith, orange creamsickle, and a subtle sweetness. I also get the impression that an amateur homebrewer created this beer. I have been pretty hard on this brewery in my ratings. I attest this to even though there is good flavor to their beer they are presented in a such a straightforward and feminine ( I mean the same way as cooking) fashion that I yearn for MORE but when I take that next sip they do not deliver any hidden complexity or subjective epiphanies. With many other breweries’ beer that have similar high ratings as Full Sails, I find myself drinking my first encounter with one of their offerings quickly because there is an elusive component I find myself desperate to identify OR it is satisfying some visceral or lupulin desire...they do not provide this. Looking at the scores from the other raters makes me wonder what I am missing out on, unfortunately I do not agree with most of them. This is average at best.