Full Sail Hopocity

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

(RBSG04) Off-white head atop clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, caramel. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, caramel, pine. Medium body, some chewy. A bit big for an APA, not that I’m complaining.

Tap@The Pilsner Room. Pretty hoppy. Sweet hops, fruity hops. Lychees everywhere, nice light pale malts, good balance, pretty tasty. Quite fruity.

Slightly murky yellow. Musty, leafy hop nose, sugars and a very sweet peach flavor initially, then the hop bitterness takes hold... peachy and leafy, stale paper flavor eventually, ending with a mild hopped buzz.

Tap @ The Pilsner Room in Portland
Clear bronze color with faint, almost no head, plenty of carbonation though. The aroma is lightly spicy & citrusy, some light earthyness and a notable malt foundation. The flavor is very balanced & hoppy but not overly so. Finishes with a 2-rowish quality. Good APA, pretty solid.

Draught, Falling Rock’s 8th Anniversary Party. Head is mostly diminishing. Body is hazy light amber. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), moderately hoppy (herbs, grapefruit). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. A surprisingly easy-going, quaffing APA.

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

Bottle 2004: The last of three Full Sail beers I opened and rated. I saved the other two and carried back for Joe’s after thanksgiving party (I’m still miffed I couldn’t find Old Boardhead, oh well). The appearance is a bronze hue with a good tight head and above average lace. The aroma has notes of pale and caramel malts, citric and grassy hops, and earthy yeast esters. I love the taste of this APA for it has a wonderful balance of bitters, fruits, and bready sweet malts. Very good depth yet never overpowering. I liked the touch of leafy lime notes towards the end and some sublime spice character. The feel was a bit of a let down I must admit, a bit watery for all that flavor. Still I have had much worse. This is a big APA but keeps it’s hands to itself and doesn’t overstep the bounds of the genre. I like the name too! Give it a try.

Draft at Humpy’s Alaskan Ale House, Anchorage. Orange with a thin and sticky head. Nice quiet little hop aroma. Solid enough hop-metallic flavors with a hint/breeze of grapefruit, very nice little pale ale, American style.