Full Sail Limited Edition Lager (LTD 01)

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Dunkel
Hood River, Oregon USA

very easy to drink,caramel color with just enough hops and absolutely not bitter. excellent flavor with a an alcohol content higher than you would guess from the taste

Bottle, pours a copper-orange body with off-white/yellow head. Head disappears rather quickly. Aroma of malts, sour bread, caramel, and a hint of spice. Medium to light bodied; a little watery on the finish. Flavors of sweet malts, sugar, caramel, and biscuit. Fairly clean finish with a slightly sticky sweet aftertaste.

pours a clear copper-orange with a medium off-white head that dissipates rapidly. smell of burnt caramel, some spice, sweet malt. taste of malt, caramel, some spice, brown sugar, slight bitterness in the end.

Medium, creamy yellowish head, slightly irregular; well-carbonated light amber-brown beer. Bready nose, melanoidins, wet wood. Spicy, in a Coca-Cola way. Much drier taste than the nose suggests, precious little restsugars, and a bitterish, more or less hoppy finish. BUT! There’s no doubt there’s diacetyl n here, and if in a dark beer that overshadows the melanoidins instead of blending, there must be a lot. Bit like a herbal stomachbitter, very watered-down. Light to medium bodied. Not bad after all, but a bit too exuberant on the diacetyl. Thankee, DaveDave!

Bottle. Semi disappointing. Pours a dark amber with a big head made of rather large bubbles, didn’t lace much on the glass. Nose is very sweet, some citrus, and another quality that was strong but I couldn’t place and seemed ’unbeer like’. taste was sweet and malty but not balanced well and finish was slightly acidic. not horrible but not good either.

Bottle from Bev Mo LTD series # 1. Creates a normal color that you could expect from a beer but with slight tint of brown and a short lived layer of fizzed foam. The aroma was dull and had a minor presence of malt. The flavor was even blander and had a sugary artificial sweetener taste that really made me not want to drink anymore. It will be a hard choice whether or not I am going to buy the series # 2 since this one was a waste of money.

Pours an incredibly dark amber from the bottle. Smells a bit nutty. Fairly straightforward with a funky little finish. Kind of like wood chips.

This was a nice little surprise. Roasty malt aroma which goes a little candied. Orangey-brown brew, nice head, functional label. Very easy drinking, rich but not bitter. Well balanced, leaning sweet, and you could quaff down a few without much aftertaste. Medium-heavy body, sweetish finish. Really tastes a lot like one of those west coast APA/brown hybrids, further hybridized with lager. Thanks a lot to Brent P for smuggling this one in from some place.